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    The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases. It detects and responds to a wide variety of pathogens, from...
    119 KB (13,493 words) - 18:52, 14 May 2024
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    The adaptive immune system, also known as the acquired immune system, or specific immune system is a subsystem of the immune system that is composed of...
    55 KB (6,950 words) - 08:13, 12 May 2024
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    Antibody (redirect from Immune globulin)
    function of the immune system that exists in the body's humors (fluids) in the form of soluble proteins, as distinct from cell-mediated immunity, which generally...
    118 KB (13,287 words) - 06:51, 5 May 2024
  • health of the host organism if not cleared from the body. In addition, there are other forms of immune response. For example, harmless exogenous factors...
    14 KB (1,834 words) - 12:56, 3 May 2024
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    anomalous response of the adaptive immune system, wherein it mistakenly targets and attacks healthy, functioning parts of the body as if they were foreign organisms...
    63 KB (6,881 words) - 20:37, 14 May 2024
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    The innate immune system or nonspecific immune system is one of the two main immunity strategies (the other being the adaptive immune system) in vertebrates...
    43 KB (4,797 words) - 16:14, 4 April 2024
  • immunity is named so because it involves substances found in the humors, or body fluids. It contrasts with cell-mediated immunity. Humoral immunity is...
    17 KB (1,674 words) - 11:19, 9 May 2024
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    efficacy of the immune system. Some portions of the immune system itself have immunosuppressive effects on other parts of the immune system, and immunosuppression...
    10 KB (938 words) - 16:41, 3 December 2023
  • mammalian body have immune privilege (no immunity), meaning they are able to tolerate the introduction of antigens without eliciting an inflammatory immune response...
    25 KB (3,200 words) - 20:10, 6 February 2024
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    Cellular immunity, also known as cell-mediated immunity, is an immune response that does not rely on the production of antibodies. Rather, cell-mediated...
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    on immunity". He pinned small thorns into starfish larvae and noticed unusual cells surrounding the thorns. This was the active response of the body trying...
    38 KB (4,188 words) - 18:08, 23 February 2024
  • together to defend the body against cancer by targeting abnormal antigens expressed on the surface of tumor cells. Vaccine-induced immunity to COVID-19 relies...
    56 KB (5,783 words) - 08:27, 10 May 2024
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    within the body that are recognized by the immune cells as antigens. The immune reactions are usually referred to as an over-reaction of the immune system...
    20 KB (1,820 words) - 13:08, 14 March 2024
  • exposure or immunization. The immune system has innate and adaptive components. Innate immunity is present in all metazoans, immune responses: inflammatory...
    30 KB (3,383 words) - 09:27, 23 January 2024
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    Antigen (category Immune system)
    antibody or T-cell receptor. The presence of antigens in the body may trigger an immune response. Antigens can be proteins, peptides (amino acid chains)...
    20 KB (2,435 words) - 08:54, 4 March 2024
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    also host to billions of commensal organisms as well as immune cells. Not all parts of the body are made from cells. Cells sit in an extracellular matrix...
    54 KB (5,562 words) - 22:59, 9 May 2024
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    Thymus (category Immune system)
    the immune system. Within the thymus, thymus cell lymphocytes or T cells mature. T cells are critical to the adaptive immune system, where the body adapts...
    43 KB (5,063 words) - 16:20, 2 May 2024
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    leukocytes), also called immune cells or immunocytes, are cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease...
    32 KB (3,210 words) - 07:57, 13 April 2024
  • suggests that women are attracted to men whose body odor is different from theirs, indicating that they have immune genes that are different from their own,...
    45 KB (5,150 words) - 03:51, 9 May 2024
  • the immune system to quickly and specifically recognize an antigen that the body has previously encountered and initiate a corresponding immune response...
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