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Multiple Polymorphism in Relation to Histocompatibility Antigens

The extreme polymorphism of the histo-compatibility antigens may have evolved to ensure that the body of an individual is not invaded by cells from another individual of the same species.

F. M. BURNET in Nature (1973)

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“Self-recognition” in Colonial Marine Forms and Flowering Plants in relation to the Evolution of Immunity

Compatibility in colonial tunicates and coelenterates and self-incompatibility in flowering plants are primitive examples of “self” and “not-self” recognition which are not analogous to the immunological proce...

F. M. BURNET in Nature (1971)

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A Certain Symmetry : Histocompatibility Antigens compared with Immunocyte Receptors

Recent work on cancer immunity suggests that the character and diversity of cell membrane antigens may be controlled by processes similar to those concerned with the origin of specific patterns in the immune s...

F. M. BURNET in Nature (1970)

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Evolution of the Immune Process in Vertebrates

This article is a slightly up-dated version of the presidential address to the Australian Society of Immunologists given by Sir Macfarlane Burnet in December 1967. He suggests that the mammalian immune system ...

F. M. BURNET in Nature (1968)

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Assay of Corticosteroids in the Chick Embryo

FOR some time we have been studying various manifestations of the reaction induced in chick embryos by the inoculation of leucocytes from normal fowls (the Simonsen phenomenon) with special interest in the pro...

F. M. BURNET, N. L. WARNER in Nature (1960)

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Loss of Specificity on Passage of Immunologically Competent Cells in the Chick Embryo

WHEN leucocytes from the blood of a fowl more than a few weeks old are placed on the chorioallantois of standard 12-day chick embryos, focal proliferative lesions are produced. These are well developed at four...

F. M. BURNET, GEORGIANA BOYER in Nature (1960)

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Failure to Recover Infective ‘Ribonucleic Acid’ from Myxovirus Preparations

IT now seems clear that preparations of infective ‘ribonucleic acid’ can be obtained from crude preparations of many animal viruses, although Colter et al. have reported failure with Bunyamwera virus preparations

G. L. ADA, PATRICIA E. LIND, LOIS LARKIN, F. M. BURNET in Nature (1959)

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Studies on filamentary forms of influenza virus with special reference to the use of dark-ground-microscopy

F. M. Burnet, Patricia E. Lind in Archiv für die gesamte Virusforschung (1957)

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Mucin as Substrate of Enzyme Action by Viruses of the Mumps Influenza Group

In previous work from this laboratory it has been found that the action of influenza viruses on red cells can be paralleled in almost complete detail by an enzyme produced by V. cholerce¹ (Stone, 1947). In the co...

F. M. BURNET, J. F. MCCREA, S. G. ANDERSON in Nature (1947)