Innate immune system: Difference between revisions

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* identify and remove foreign substances present in organs, tissues, blood and [[lymph]], by specialized [[white blood cells]]

* activate the [[adaptive immune system]] through [[antigen presentation]]

* act as a physical and chemical barrier to infectious agents; via physical measures such as skin and mucus, and chemical measures such as [[Coagulation|clottingblood factorsclotting]] in blood, which are released following a contusion or other injury that breaks through the first-line physical barrier (not to be confused with a second-line physical or chemical barrier, such as theand [[blood–brainhost barrier]],defence which protects the nervous system from [[pathogenspeptide]] that have already gained access to the host)s.

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