Chang John T, Reiner Steven L
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Immunity. 2007 Dec;27(6):832-4. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.11.009.
Specific immunity is a layer of defense exquisitely broad, terrifyingly thin, and yet remarkably durable on challenge. In this issue of Immunity, Stemberger et al. (2007) now take this concept to its logical extreme by offering evidence that expenditure of a single lymphocyte yields its own replenishment.
特异性免疫是一层防御体系，范围极其广泛，作用却极为微弱，但在面对挑战时却异常持久。在本期《免疫》杂志中，施滕贝格尔等人（2007年）通过提供证据表明单个淋巴细胞的消耗会产生自身的补充，从而将这一概念推向了逻辑极限。
