Evolution of immune systems from self/not self to danger to artificial immune systems (AIS)

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-78

  Cooper, Edwin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE RESPONSE; ANIMAL GROUPS; ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM; BENIGN TUMOR; CLONAL SELECTION; IMMUNE MECHANISM; IMMUNE SYSTEMS; INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEMS; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFE-SCIENCES;

MAMMALS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

AUTOANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77649185063     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2009.12.001     Document Type: Review

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