Sep 14, 2016 04:36 PM
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-09-br...gical.html
That finding reminds me of the Salk/Sabin polio vaccine rivalry. The Sabin vaccine apparently relied on mucosal memory in the gut.
Quote:"We show that the memory cells created in the mucosa are different from memory cells formed in other parts of the body. And a bit surprisingly, it seems that the cells that make antibodies in the mucosa and the memory cells in the mucosa are not created at the same time," says Mats Bemark.
That finding reminds me of the Salk/Sabin polio vaccine rivalry. The Sabin vaccine apparently relied on mucosal memory in the gut.