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Immunology
Immunology is the study of the structuree and function of the immune system which is responsible for the protection from invading foreign macromolecules or organisms. It is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in both healthy states and immunological disorders (autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivities, immune deficiency, transplant rejection); the physical, chemical and physiological characteristics of the components of the immune system in vitro, in situ, and in vivo.
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carriers
Biology; Immunology
Carriers are foreign proteins to which small nonimmunogenic antigens, or haptens, can be coupled to render the hapten immunogenic. In vivo, self proteins can also serve as carriers if they are ...
somatic recombination
Biology; Immunology
During lymphocyte development, receptor gene segments undergo somatic recombination to generate intact V-region exons that encode the V region of each immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor chain. These ...
natural killer cells
Biology; Immunology
Natural killer cells (NK cells) are large granular, non-T, non-B lymphocytes, which kill certain tumor cells. NK cells are important in innate immunity to viruses and other intracellular pathogens, ...
original antigenic sin
Biology; Immunology
Original antigenic sin describes the tendency of humans to make antibody responses to those epitopes shared between the original strain of a virus and subsequent related viruses, while ignoring other ...
complement component 6 and 7 (C6, C7)
Biology; Immunology
The complement components C6, C7, and C8 form a complex with the active complement fragment C5b in the late events of complement activation. This complex inserts into the membrane and induces ...
H antigens
Biology; Immunology
H antigens or histocompatibility antigens, are known as major histocompatibility antigens when they encode molecules that present foreign peptides to T cells and as minor H antigens when they present ...
memory cells
Biology; Immunology
Memory cells are the lymphocytes that mediate immunological memory. They are more sensitive to antigen than are naive lymphocytes and respond rapidly on reexposure to the antigen that originally ...
