Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Han, Yinglun
• Pang, Yue
• Yu, Tao
• Xiao, Rong
• Shi, Biyue
• Su, Peng
• Liu, Xin
• Li, Qingwei

Titel

Lamprey serum can kill HeLa and NB4 tumor cells

Ist Teil von

• Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica, 2014-07, Vol.46 (7), p.623-626

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nature consists primarily of living materials, many of which are pathogenic microorganisms capable of killing and converting other organisms into copies of themselves . For self-defense, eukaryotes have gradually evolved immune systems, including the innate and adaptive immune systems . Innate immunity has been found in plants, fungi, and metazoans; while jawed vertebrates have an evolved adaptive immune system in addition to the innate immunity defense . Agnathans, represented by lamprey and hagfish, are the oldest vertebrates that possess the adaptive immune defenses, although whether TCR and BCR exist in jawless vertebrates remains unknown.