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Innate immunity provides defenses distinct from the learning associated with adaptive immunity. The discussion introduces TLR4 as part of the molecular machinery behind innate immune activation.
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1:48:551998 discovery of innate immune activation. >> Yes. Um you know with the immune system there's innate immunity and then adaptive immunity. Adaptive immunity is the part that learns but innate immunity is stuff that we already know and it's hardwired into our genetics. um geneticist Bruce Butler at the UT Southwestern, he identified um TLR4, Tlike receptor 4, and that unmasked the molecular mechanism for innate immunity. It earned him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology.
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