- humoral immune response
Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture . 2015.
humoral immune response
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humoral immune response — noun an immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells • Hypernyms: ↑immune response, ↑immune reaction, ↑immunologic response … Useful english dictionary
immune response — noun a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen • Syn: ↑immune reaction, ↑immunologic response •… … Useful english dictionary
Immune response — Any reaction by the immune system. * * * immune response n a bodily response to an antigen that occurs when lymphocytes identify the antigenic molecule as foreign and induce the formation of antibodies and lymphocytes capable of reacting with it… … Medical dictionary
immune response — the response of the immune system to antigens. There are two types of immune response produced by two populations of lymphocytes. B lymphocytes (or B cells) are responsible for humoral immunity, producing free antibodies that circulate in the… … The new mediacal dictionary
antibody-mediated immune response — The synthesis of antibodies by B cells in response to an encounter of the cells of the immune system with a foreign antigen. Synonym: humoral immune response … Glossary of Biotechnology
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
Humoral immunity — The Humoral Immune Response (HIR) is the aspect of immunity that is mediated by secreted antibodies (as opposed to cell mediated immunity which involves T lymphocytes) produced in the cells of the B lymphocyte lineage (B cell). Secreted… … Wikipedia
Humoral — Pertaining to elements in the blood or other body fluids. In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally present in the front and rear chambers of the eye. The humors were part of an… … Medical dictionary
immune reaction — noun a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen • Syn: ↑immune response, ↑immunologic response •… … Useful english dictionary
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
