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Morphostasis and Immunity (1992 version)

This is the version submitted in late 1992. It still contains points that, I believe, are of importance.

In this article, I have used the phrase "soma/scavenger segregation". "Parenchyma/scavenger segregation might be more appropriate. None of these descriptions is ideal. Perhaps "fixed tissue/mobile scavenger segregation" is an improvement or "static tissue cell/invasive immune cell segregation. 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. 1992. HTML version. (PDF version.)