Marginal zone B (MZB) cells play pivotal roles in the innate immune system by linking innate and adaptive immunity through their capacity for antigen presentation and lymphocyte activation 1,2.
Our body is constantly surveilled by innate immune cells, ready to initiate host defense or repair responses. Upon recognizing molecular patterns associated with pathogens or damage, innate immune ...
In the 1880's and 1890's, Robert Koch established that a different microbe causes each infectious disease. Koch defined a process by which a specific causative organism could be identified by ...