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Immune Training Unlocks Innate Potential
Wilbur M Song1, Marco Colonna1
1Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
Abstract:
Trained immunity is a form of innate immune memory with distinct features from classical adaptive immune memory. In the current issues of Cell and Cell Host & Microbe, five studies from the International Trained Immunity Consortium shed light on mechanisms and functional consequences of this phenomenon on cellular and whole-organism levels.
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