• DOI:10.1038/ni0503-425
Corpus ID: 31571243

Cellular versus humoral immunology: a century-long dispute

@article{Silverstein2003CellularVH,
  title={Cellular versus humoral immunology: a century-long dispute},
  author={A. Silverstein},
  journal={Nature Immunology},
  year={2003},
  volume={4},
  pages={425-428}
}

• A. Silverstein
• Published 2003
• Biology, Medicine
• Nature Immunology

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Historical insight: Immunology's founding fathers argued fiercely about whether Metchnikoff's phagocytes or Ehrlich's antibodies were the most important mediators of immunity. Antibodies won out, but even after lymphocytes re-established cellular immunology, the humoralist-cellularist divide persisted.