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Chapter 4

The body's largest immune organ is the gut-associated lymphoid tissue

by Dr. Lee Gwang-jo Β· βœ“ Free

Grace "I understood antibodies to be produced by B cells β€” adaptive, post-priming immune cells. Are you saying B cells reside in the digestive tract?"

 

Dr. Lee "Yes. From a comparative-zoology perspective, in very primitive animals the immune cells are the digestive cells. The lancelet is a textbook example: its immune cells engulf food, break it down, and use it for nutrition. Evolutionarily, the immune system begins in the digestive tract β€” and it had to, because the digestive tract is the part of the body in longest contact with foreign material."

 

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