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COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES
Volume 336, Issue 1, Pages 13-16Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2013.01.006
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Quorum sensing; Immune response; Collective behavior; Cytokines; Robustness
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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. (c) 2013 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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