Peripheral lymphoid tissues operate by trapping antigens from sites of infection and presenting them to migratory small lymphocytes to induce adaptive immune responses.

Authors

• Person: Janeway CA Jr, Travers P, Walport M Organization: Garland Science
  The components of the immune system - Immunobiology - NCBI - NIH

Sources

• The components of the immune system - Immunobiology - NCBI - NIH www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Janeway CA Jr, Travers P, Walport M · Garland Science via serper

Referenced by nodes (4)

• infection concept
• lymphocyte concept
• adaptive immune system concept
• antigen concept