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Author: Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Cellular immunity is the immune response, which involves the phagocyte activation, cytotoxic T-cell activation which is specific to the antigens and release of different cytokines in reaction to the antigens.

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