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Morphostasis and Immunity (version dated 11/1984)

This is the first tidy version. It still contains points that, I believe, are of importance.

In this article, I have introduced the idea of a "soma/scavenger" divide. "Parenchyma/scavenger" divide might be more appropriate. None of these descriptions is ideal. Perhaps "fixed tissue/mobile scavenger" divide is an improvement or "static tissue cell/invasive immune cell" divide. The important point is that defence cells must be kept to a minimal number and minimal aggression in healthy functional organs (muscle, tendon and blood vessels are included). The ingress and activity of scavengers/other immune cells are only ramped up when they are "invited" in and it usually starts with just phagocytes which then ramp up the recruitment of the other immune cells.

Morphostasis and immunity. 1984. HTML version