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The pathway by which LPS activates host innate immune defenses has been illuminated by the positional cloning of Lps and establishment of its identity with Tlr4 [ 11], a mammalian representative of an ancient family of receptors [ 16] that serve both developmental and defensive functions.
When I occasionally confront her with what I know to be the truth, she gets defensive and abusive in tone.
Built between 1886 and 1888, the Gate House was a Victorian attempt to recapture the medieval castle style, but it was more a cosmetic addition than a defensive structure.
He needn't be so defensive.
Kendal became a frontier castle, and pele towers — square defensive structures, from the word pel, meaning stake — were attached to the larger houses in the Lakes were to provide additional protection.