Innate Immunity
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Innate Immunity: Broadly Specific Host Defenses — Brock Biology of Microorganisms▶ 2:01Ah, yesThe chapter mentions a potential role for it in innate immunity, which is quite surprising given its association with Alzheimer's diseaseYeah, I was like, wait, whatThe Immune System — Campbell Biology▶ 3:15We're going to build this up layer by layerWe will start with Concept 43 1, which is innate immunityThis is the ancient rapid response system found in all animalsInnate Immunity: Nonspecific Defenses of the Host — Microbiology: An Introduction▶ 2:15AbsolutelySo innate immunity, think of that as your frontline soldiers, your rapid response team, always on patrol, always readyIt's non -specific, meaning it doesn't really care which bad guy it's fighting, just that something foreign is there