Short note: distinguishing 'immune intelligence' and 'immune response'.
Most experimental models consider an immune response as a mechanistic process in which various pharmacologically active compounds either increase or decrease 'immunity'. In most instances the test data preferentially measure quantitative rather than qualitative aspects of an immune function. Instead of testing how 'smart' the immune system is, the strength of some of its 'muscles' is monitored. Here we distinguish 'immune intelligence' from 'immune response', and stress that we often think of the first while our experiments measure the second.
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Institute of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenija. ihan@ibmi.mf.uni-lj.si
D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000502:physiology*; D018448:Models, Immunological