• Study Resource
  • Explore Categories
    • Arts & Humanities
    • Business
    • Engineering & Technology
    • Foreign Language
    • History
    • Math
    • Science
    • Social Science

    Top subcategories

    • Advanced Math
    • Algebra
    • Basic Math
    • Calculus
    • Geometry
    • Linear Algebra
    • Pre-Algebra
    • Pre-Calculus
    • Statistics And Probability
    • Trigonometry
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Astronomy
    • Astrophysics
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Earth Science
    • Environmental Science
    • Health Science
    • Physics
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Anthropology
    • Law
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Sociology
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Accounting
    • Economics
    • Finance
    • Management
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Aerospace Engineering
    • Bioengineering
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Civil Engineering
    • Computer Science
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Industrial Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Web Design
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Architecture
    • Communications
    • English
    • Gender Studies
    • Music
    • Performing Arts
    • Philosophy
    • Religious Studies
    • Writing
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Ancient History
    • European History
    • US History
    • World History
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Finnish
    • Greek
    • Hindi
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Persian
    • Swedish
    • Turkish
    • other →
 
Profile Documents Logout
Upload
Vaccines
Vaccines

... The Immune System and Passive Immunization  The transfer of antibodies will not trigger the immune system  There is NO presence of memory cells  Risks are included  Recognition of the immunoglobulin epitope by self immunoglobluin paratopes  Some individuals produce IgE molecules specific for p ...
How do adaptive immune systems control
How do adaptive immune systems control

... Such clonal deletion is useful, but it is not sufficient to prevent all self-directed responses. For instance, this process cannot remove CD8 cells that act against selfantigens that are not found in the thymus; neither can it remove CD8 cells that are specific for those self-antigens that are expre ...
Immune-Strategies-for-HIV-Prevention_ARD-2015_LSC - UZ-UCSF
Immune-Strategies-for-HIV-Prevention_ARD-2015_LSC - UZ-UCSF

... monoclonal antibodies provide a new opportunity for HIV prevention (also treatment / cure)  If effective, antibody production can be scaled up and altered to increase duration of effect (> 1 month) ...
Antioxidants may increase the probability of developing allergic
Antioxidants may increase the probability of developing allergic

... asthma when an allergen is incorporated. In contrast, ROS are not only produced in case of Th1type immune response, they may also promote cellular cytotoxicity by induction of Th1-type cytokines like IFN-c, thereby down-regulating Th2-type immune response (Fig. 1). In other words, a disturbance of t ...
Immune Support - Huntington College of Health Sciences
Immune Support - Huntington College of Health Sciences

A23 - Ummafrapp
A23 - Ummafrapp

... The role of vitamin D (VitD) in calcium and bone homeostasis is well described. In the last years, it has been recognized that in addition to this classical function, VitD modulates a variety of processes and regulatory systems including host defense, inflammation, immunity, and repair. VitD deficie ...
Poster - IRMACS Centre - Simon Fraser University
Poster - IRMACS Centre - Simon Fraser University

... Fig. 3. Proposed configuration of iReceptor environment. Data migration services facilitate input of data into nodes of receptor databases (e.g., VDJServer data commons, BC Genome Sciences Centre, SFU, etc.). iReceptor database service authenticates access at 3 levels: public data “commons”; sharing ...
An Interpretative Introduction to the Immune System
An Interpretative Introduction to the Immune System

... textbook. The interested reader should consult [14, 4, 13]. The goal of this chapter is to sketch an outline of how the immune system fits together, so that readers may then go and consult detailed research papers, knowing where to look. For this reason, the emphasis here is on interpretation, not d ...
Slide 1 - Dental Student Pathology
Slide 1 - Dental Student Pathology

... • In olden days: used horse serum for immunization • Inject foreign protein (antigen) • Antibodies are made; they form complexes with antigens • Complexes lodge in kidney, joints, small vessels • Inflammation causes fever, joint pain, proteinuria ...
Construction of a new strain of mice that lack mast cells and set
Construction of a new strain of mice that lack mast cells and set

... Asthma  is  a  chronic  inflammatory  disease  of  the  airways  which  causes  recurrent  episodes  of  coughing,  wheezing,   chest   tightness   and   shortness   of   breath   in   susceptible   individuals.   Today,   asthma   is   one   ...
IMMUNE RESPONSE
IMMUNE RESPONSE

혈액세포의 관찰 (Observation of Blood cells)
혈액세포의 관찰 (Observation of Blood cells)

... (epitopes), they bind to them and form complexes which immobilize the microorganisms. Later, other cells which are not specific, but which are able to recognize antibodies, phagocyte these complexes. In their turn, the T cells are divided into three categories: Tc (cytotoxic), Th (helpers), Ts (supp ...
Vaccine Induced Disease
Vaccine Induced Disease

... "One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies, and if we dig down deep enough in the mountain of lies, and bring out that truth, to set it on top of the mountain of lies; the entire mountain of lies will crumble under the weight of that one truth. And there is nothing more deva ...
Cytokines and Chemokines
Cytokines and Chemokines

Lecture-1-Allergy-immunology-and
Lecture-1-Allergy-immunology-and

... • Food allergen cross-links two IgE antibodies attached to FcRI receptors on mast cell • Mast cells are degranulated and release preformed inflammatory mediators • Secondary cells of inflammation (eosinophils, neutrophils, basophils, lymphocytes) are recruited by chemotactic factors including chemo ...
Specific Cellular Defences - Smithycroft Secondary School
Specific Cellular Defences - Smithycroft Secondary School

... I can state that one group of T-lymphocytes destroy infected cells by inducing apoptosis. Another group of T-lymphocytes secrete cytokines that activate B lymphocytes and phagocytes. When pathogens infect tissue, some phagocytes capture the pathogen and display fragments of its antigens on their sur ...
Chapter 21 - Immunity
Chapter 21 - Immunity

... begin antibody formation • B cells may be activated without TH cell help by binding to T cell–independent antigens (certain microbial polysaccharides) • Most antigens, however, require TH co-stimulation to activate B cells • Cytokines released by TH amplify nonspecific defenses ...
BSc/Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology 3 BLT301
BSc/Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology 3 BLT301

... • T cells express specific types of cell-mediated immune response carry a vast repertoire of immunologic memory, and they can regulate and directly affect a variety of immune processes. In humans, the bone marrow and thymus are the primary lymphoid organs. These are the sites of functional maturatio ...
Immune response of the reproductive tract to infectious agents
Immune response of the reproductive tract to infectious agents

... pathogens, and serve to initiate inflammatory responses. To date, epithelial cells and stromal cells of the uterus of cows have been shown to express Toll-like receptors 1 through 10 and NOD-like receptors 1 and 2. Stimulation of these receptors by microbial molecules initiates a signal transduction ...
Antigens and antibidies
Antigens and antibidies

... and (2) they are antigen-presenting cells (APCs). Origin. During embryogenesis, B cell precursors are recognized first in the fetal liver. From there they migrate to the bone marrow, which is their main location during adult life. Unlike T cells, they do not require the thymus for maturation. Pre-B ...
Inactivated vaccines
Inactivated vaccines

...  No post-translational modification (e.g. glycosylation). N.B. Carbohydrates are often very important antibody inducing molecules.  High levels of endotoxin from bacterial cell wall. Caused production of non-specific inflammatory response in the host e.g. TNF, IFNg Can over come the problems of po ...
Cytokines
Cytokines

... TH1 and TH2 Helper Cell Subsets in the Pathology and Progression of Infection with Mycobacterium leprae Tuberculoid (Cell-mediated) and Lepromatous (Humoral response) Leprosy (Figure 12-14, Immunology, 6th Edition, p. 318) ...
Bone Marrow Transplants
Bone Marrow Transplants

... neither with recognize the other as foreign. If the HLA antigens are different… Possibility 1 The donor bone marrow cells may recognize the recipient cells as foreign and attack the recipient. This can range from mild to fatal. It is known as Graft versus Host or GVH GVH is a major risk in all BMT. ...
Understanding Renal Cell Carcinoma and Immuno
Understanding Renal Cell Carcinoma and Immuno

... PD-L1 and PD-L2 on renal carcinoma cells can bind to the PD receptor on T cells to inhibit T-cell activity and suppress the T-cell attack directly at the tumor site Expression of LAG-3 upon T-cell activation helps support feedback inhibition, similar to CTLA-4. The main ligand for LAG-3 is MHC clas ...
Regulatory T cells and autoimmune diseases
Regulatory T cells and autoimmune diseases

... • Tregs in patients with RA appear to be present in normal numbers and to exhibit all of the features of Tregs, not only in phenotype but also in their suppression of T cell proliferation. • Circulating Tregs isolated from patients with active RA are unable to suppress the release of pro-inflammator ...
< 1 ... 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 ... 352 >

Immune system



The immune system is a system of many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. To function properly, an immune system must detect a wide variety of agents, known as pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, and distinguish them from the organism's own healthy tissue. In many species, the immune system can be classified into subsystems, such as the innate immune system versus the adaptive immune system, or humoral immunity versus cell-mediated immunity.Pathogens can rapidly evolve and adapt, and thereby avoid detection and neutralization by the immune system; however, multiple defense mechanisms have also evolved to recognize and neutralize pathogens. Even simple unicellular organisms such as bacteria possess a rudimentary immune system, in the form of enzymes that protect against bacteriophage infections. Other basic immune mechanisms evolved in ancient eukaryotes and remain in their modern descendants, such as plants and insects. These mechanisms include phagocytosis, antimicrobial peptides called defensins, and the complement system. Jawed vertebrates, including humans, have even more sophisticated defense mechanisms, including the ability to adapt over time to recognize specific pathogens more efficiently. Adaptive (or acquired) immunity creates immunological memory after an initial response to a specific pathogen, leading to an enhanced response to subsequent encounters with that same pathogen. This process of acquired immunity is the basis of vaccination.Disorders of the immune system can result in autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases and cancer.Immunodeficiency occurs when the immune system is less active than normal, resulting in recurring and life-threatening infections. In humans, immunodeficiency can either be the result of a genetic disease such as severe combined immunodeficiency, acquired conditions such as HIV/AIDS, or the use of immunosuppressive medication. In contrast, autoimmunity results from a hyperactive immune system attacking normal tissues as if they were foreign organisms. Common autoimmune diseases include Hashimoto's thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus type 1, and systemic lupus erythematosus. Immunology covers the study of all aspects of the immune system.
  • studyres.com © 2025
  • DMCA
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Report