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The organisers of this Symposium have asked me to give a short pladoyer for the macrophage and its position in the immune system. I would like to open this case with two statements:
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The specificity of the immune response is a sole function of committed lymphocytes. Macrophages do not play an instructional role.
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Phagocytosis was the primordial mechanism of defence; the specific elements, the lymphocytes, came later.
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Fischer, H. (1976). Macrophages. In: Melchers, F., Rajewsky, K. (eds) The Immune System. Colloquium der Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81083-1_13
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