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Tue 30 Nov, 2010 10:47 pm
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Fascinating as these findings were, the sea lamprey offered no evolutionary insights into the mysteries of self-recognition. An issue in later discussions was the distinction between autoimmune diseases caused by adaptive responses due to recombinatorial receptors of T and B cells, and autoinfiammatory diseases due to dysfunctional cells of the mammalian innate immune system.