What does the non specific defense system do?

Also. Allied the innate immune system, cells and proteins involved recognize structures shared by classes of microbes not present on the body's own cells and can also recognize molecules released by infected, damaged, or dead cells. The innate system can eliminate microbes on its own but more commonly cells of the innate immune system release chemokines to attract cells that are involved in the adaptive immune system to initiate an antigen or microbe specific immune response