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The system may be a host defence system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. To function properly, an system must detect a good sort of agents, referred to as pathogens, from
viruses to parasitic worms, and distinguish them from the organism's own healthy tissue. In many species, there are two major subsystems of the system. They are the innate system and the adaptive immune system. Both subsystems use humoral
immunity and cell-mediated
immunity to perform their functions. In humans, the blood–brain barrier, blood–cerebro-spinal fluid barrier, and similar fluid–brain barriers separate the peripheral system from the neuro immune system, which protects the brain. Pathogens can rapidly evolve and adapt, and thereby avoid detection and neutralization by the immune system, however multiple defence mechanisms have also evolved to acknowledge and neutralize pathogens. Even simple unicellular organisms like bacteria possess a rudimentary system within the sort of enzymes that protect against bacteriologic infections. Other basic immune mechanisms evolved in ancient eukaryotes and remain in their modern descendants, like plants and invertebrates. Central to the immune system’s ability to mobilize a response to an invading pathogen, toxin or allergen is its ability to differentiate self from non-self. The host uses both innate and adaptive mechanisms to detect and eliminate pathogenic microbes.
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