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The immune system does not develop normally in the absence of microbial inputs. In addition to a repertoire of potential effector cells, the system also requires regulatory circuits that inhibit damaging responses to inappropriate targets (such as self, trivial antigens in air, and gut contents) and that terminate inflammatory responses that are no longer needed. The disease groups that occur when immunoregulation fails are indicated in parentheses.
