The body does not normally mount an immune response to the food molecules due to Cell-Mediated Immunity which is a part of Humoral Immunity.
What is Cell-Mediated Immunity?
- The cell-Mediated immune response involves the destruction of infected cells by cytotoxic T cells or the destruction of intracellular pathogens by macrophages.
- It does not involve antibody formation.
- It protects the body through T-cell mediated immunity, macrophages, and natural killer cells.
- The gastrointestinal immune system has the unique capacity to discriminate between harmless and potentially dangerous materials.
- Dietary antigens trigger the generation of a regulatory Treg cell type in the small intestine that suppresses immune response to food.
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