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Trade-offs between acquired and innate immune defenses in humans

Immune defenses provide resistance against infectious disease that is critical to survival. But immune defenses are costly, and limited resources allocated to immunity are not available for other physiological or developmental processes. We propose a framework for explaining variation in patterns of...

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Autores principales: McDade, Thomas W., Georgiev, Alexander V., Kuzawa, Christopher W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26739325
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eov033