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Immune system: The seventh sense

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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 215, Issue 2, Pages 397-398

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ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20172295

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  1. National Institutes of Health [AG034113, AG057496, NS096967]

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The brain is our computing machine that integrates stimuli from the environment and orchestrates responses to these stimuli. Here, I propose that the defining role of the immune system is to sense microorganisms and to inform the brain about them.

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