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Classical immunological research has been mainly devoted to natural defense mechanisms against infections and to the development and action of vaccines. With the discovery of immune tolerance and following investigations on transplantation immunity, the concept of the immune response was generalized as the higher animal's ability to discriminate between ‘self’ and ‘notself’. Since then research has concentrated on cells and their products involved in these immune phenomena. Application of the vast knowledge in the field of modern immunology should aid greatly in the solution of many actual clinical problems and in alleviating public health hazards (parasitology, etc.) in the Third World.
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Nach einem Vortrag, gehalten aus Anlaß der 109. Versammlung der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte vom 19.–23.9. 1976 in Stuttgart
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Westphal, O. Die Bedeutung der Immunologie für den Menschen — Eingriff und Wandel. Naturwissenschaften 64, 216–218 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00449970
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00449970