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

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The perforin-granzyme pathway involves the release of perforin and granzymes by cytotoxic T cells or natural killer cells, which leads to the destruction of infected or abnormal cells by inducing apoptosis.

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