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Does a quorum sensing mechanism direct the behavior of immune cells?
- Source :
- Comptes Rendus Biologies, Comptes Rendus Biologies, Elsevier, 2013, 336 (1), pp.13-16. ⟨10.1016/j.crvi.2013.01.006⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Quorum sensing is a decision-making process used by decentralized groups such as colonies of bacteria to trigger a coordinated behavior. The existence of decentralized coordinated behavior has also been suggested in the immune system. In this paper, we explore the possibility for quorum sensing mechanisms in the immune response. Cytokines are good candidates as inducer of quorum sensing effects on migration, proliferation and differentiation of immune cells. The existence of a quorum sensing mechanism should be explored experimentally. It may provide new perspectives into immune responses and could lead to new therapeutic strategies.
- Subjects :
- [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Cellular differentiation
Biology
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Immune system
Cell Movement
Animals
Humans
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Cell Proliferation
030304 developmental biology
Immunity, Cellular
0303 health sciences
Bacteria
General Immunology and Microbiology
Mechanism (biology)
Quorum Sensing
Robustness (evolution)
Cell Differentiation
General Medicine
Cell movement
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
Cell biology
Quorum sensing
Immunology
Cytokines
bacteria
Autoinducer
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16310691
- Volume :
- 336
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comptes Rendus Biologies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d9613029e0b1aac69bc6c65dbb220178