The Danger Model: A Renewed Sense of Self

摘要

For over 50 years immunologists have based their thoughts, experiments, and clinical treatments on the idea that the immune system functions by making a distinction between self and nonself. Although this paradigm has often served us well, years of detailed examination have revealed a number of inherent problems. This Viewpoint outlines a model of immu- nity based on the idea that the immune system is more concerned with entities that do damage than with those that are foreign.