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Immunology

the proposal that immune responses are triggered by sudden changes in the antigenic patterns that immune receptors meet, not by their self or nonself origin.

In immunology, discontinuity theory of immunity refers to the proposal that immune responses are triggered by sudden changes in the antigenic patterns that immune receptors meet, not by their self or nonself origin. This meaning comes from Pradeu (2013) in Nature Reviews Immunology.[1]

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  1. Pradeu, T., Jaeger, S., & Vivier, E. (2013). The speed of change: towards a discontinuity theory of immunity? Nature Reviews Immunology, 13(10), 764-769. https://doi.org/10.1038/nri3521

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