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cellular immune response — cell mediated immune response See: T cellular immune response … Glossary of Biotechnology
cell-mediated immune response — cellular immune response See: T cell mediated immune response … Glossary of Biotechnology
T-cell-mediated immune response — T cellular immune response The synthesis of antigen specific T cell receptors and the development of killer T cells in response to an encounter of immune system cells with an unrecognized immunogenic molecule … Glossary of Biotechnology
Immune privilege — is a term used to describe certain sites in the body which are able to tolerate the introduction of antigen without eliciting an inflammatory immune response. Tissue grafts are normally recognised as foreign antigen by the body and attacked by… … Wikipedia
Immune tolerance — or immunological tolerance is the process by which the immune system does not attack an antigen.[1] It can be either natural or self tolerance , in which the body does not mount an immune response to self antigens, or induced tolerance , in which … Wikipedia
Immune tolerance in pregnancy — or gestational/maternal immune tolerance is the absence of a maternal immune response against the fetus and placenta, which thus may be viewed as unusually successful allografts, since they genetically differ from the mother.[1] In the same way,… … Wikipedia
Cellular Microarray — Cellular microarrays, are biological chips that allow interrogation of living cells on the surface of a solid support. The chips, spotted with varying materials, such as antibodies, proteins, or lipids, can interact with the cells, leading to… … Wikipedia
immune system — n the bodily system that protects the body from foreign substances, cells, and tissues by producing the immune response and that includes esp. the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes, special deposits of lymphoid tissue (as in the gastrointestinal tract… … Medical dictionary
cellular immunity — Immune response that involves enhanced activity by phagocytic cells and does not imply lymphocyte involvement. Since the term is easily confused with cell mediated immunity its use in this sense should be avoided … Dictionary of molecular biology
Immune system — A scanning electron microscope image of a single neutrophil (yellow), engulfing anthrax bacteria (orange). An immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and… … Wikipedia
