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Acta Biológica Colombiana

versão impressa ISSN 0120-548X

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OCAMPO, Iván Darío  e  CADAVID, Luis F. MECHANISMS OF IMMUNE RESPONSES IN CNIDARIANS. Acta biol.Colomb. [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.2, pp.5-11. ISSN 0120-548X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/abc.v20n2.46728.

The immune system maintains the integrity of the organisms through a complex network of molecules, cells, and tissues that recognize internal or external antigenic substances to neutralized and eliminate them. The mechanisms of immune response have evolved in a modular fashion, where members of a given module interact strongly among them, but weakly with members of other modules, providing robustness and evolvability to the immune system. Ancestral modules are the raw material for the generation of new modules through evolution. Thus, the study of immune systems in basal metazoans such as cnidarians seeks to determine the basic tool kit from which the metazoans started to construct their immune systems. In addition, understanding the immune mechanisms in cnidarians contributes to decipher the etiopathology of coral diseases of infectious nature that are affecting coral reefs worldwide.

Palavras-chave : coral diseases; cnidarian immunity; evolutionary immunology.

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