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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Theor Biol. 2011 Jan 27;275(1):59–69. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.031

Figure 5.2.

Figure 5.2

Conceptual diagram depicting the T cell response as a collection of elementary signal processors that interact to produce an emergent group behavior. The system is characterized by three functional features: the ability to detect change, the ability to proliferate extensively in response to change, and the ability to return to a latent equilibrium.