The perforin-granzyme pathway involves

A) the production of fever, which kills the pathogen.
B) the production of antibodies toward the invading pathogen.
C) the synthesis of special cell-killing proteins that act on infected or abnormal cells.
D) presenting the foreign antigen to B cells.
E) binding CD95L to infected cells, which eventually leads to cell apoptosis.


C

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