Your Adaptive Immune System doesn’t make any real decisions about who to fight and when it is time to activate—this is the Innate Immune System’s job, and this is where the Dendritic Cell, this big, weird-looking cell with many octopus-like arms that takes samples, comes into play. When an infection happens it covers itself with a selection of the enemy’s antigens and tries to find a Helper T Cell that is able to recognize one of the antigens with its specific receptors. And this is exactly the reason why the Dendritic Cell is so crucially important. Without Dendritic Cells, there would be no
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