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Unless all our interpretations are wrong, the significant interactions between immunocyte and antigen always involve the stimulation of the cell by contact of antigenic determinant (AD) with a cell surface receptor. In other words AD acts essentially as a drug acts on its appropriate receptor. It may well emerge that neither immunology nor pharmacology has developed sufficiently for any application of pharmacological principles to be helpful in the interpretation of immunological phenomena. Nevertheless, it seems essential at this point to include some account of what seem to be relevant aspects of current pharmacological teaching.
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Burnet, M. (1972). Pharmacological aspects of immune responses. In: Auto-Immunity and Auto-Immune Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8095-5_5
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