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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 208, Issue 4, Pages 785-792Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2101058
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Unlike previously believed, recent research has shown that the innate immune system has memory functions, allowing for a rapid and broad response to infections. This memory is induced through activation of pattern recognition receptors and cytokines, leading to changes in gene expression and metabolism.
Unlike the adaptive immune system, the innate immune system has classically been characterized as being devoid of memory functions. However, recent research shows that innate myeloid and lymphoid cells have the ability to retain memory of prior pathogen exposure and become primed to elicit a robust, broad-spectrum response to subsequent infection. This phenomenon has been termed innate immune memory or trained immunity. Innate immune memory is induced via activation of pattern recognition receptors and the actions of cytokines on hematopoietic progenitors and stem cells in bone marrow and innate leukocytes in the periphery. The trained phenotype is induced and sustained via epigenetic modifications that reprogram transcriptional patterns and metabolism. These modifications augment antimicrobial functions, such as leukocyte expansion, chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and microbial killing, to facilitate an augmented host response to infection. Alternatively, innate immune memory may contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic diseases, such as atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.
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