Journal
IMMUNITY
Volume 55, Issue 8, Pages 1343-1353Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2022.07.008
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Open Philantropy Foundation
- NIAID [AI057229]
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In recent years, studies have shown that inbred mice have limitations in providing information about genetic heterogeneity and microbial influences in the immune system. However, human studies have filled these gaps and provided direct information about human diseases and vaccination responses, offering important insights in immunology.
While inbred mice have informed most of what we know about the immune system in the modern era, they have clear limitations with respect to their ability to be informative regarding genetic heterogeneity or microbial influences. They have also not been very predictive as models of human disease or vaccination results. Although there are concerted attempts to compensate for these flaws, the rapid rise of human studies, driven by both technical and conceptual advances, promises to fill in these gaps, as well as provide direct information about human diseases and vaccination responses. Work on human immunity has already provided important additional perspectives on basic immunology such as the importance of clonal deletion to self-tolerance, and while many challenges remain, it seems inevitable that ``the human model'' will continue to inform us about the immune system and even allow for the discovery of new mechanisms.
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