TWiN 7: Stress, the good, bad and beautiful
This Week in Neuroscience
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The Adaptive Arm of the Immune System
The central nervous system can actually activate or enhance the adaptive immune response to a pathogen. The spleen is innervated by the sympathetic nervous system which we spoke about earlier via a nerve called the splenic nerve. T cells are involved kind of in more cellular mediated immunity so um they can interact with proteins on our own cells and then respond to foreign peptides that signal there's an infection going on.
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