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...
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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...
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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...
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Autoimmune disease (redirect from Immune System Disorder)
a condition that results from an anomalous response of the adaptive immune system, wherein it mistakenly targets and attacks healthy, functioning parts...
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Immunodeficiency (redirect from Immune-system deficiencies)
Immunodeficiency, also known as immunocompromisation, is a state in which the immune system's ability to fight infectious diseases and cancer is compromised or entirely...
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intelligence, artificial immune systems (AIS) are a class of computationally intelligent, rule-based machine learning systems inspired by the principles...
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of immunology. The immune system is divided into a more primitive innate immune system and an acquired or adaptive immune system of vertebrates, each...
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The ocular immune system protects the eye from infection and regulates healing processes following injuries. The interior of the eye lacks lymph vessels...
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The behavioral immune system is a phrase coined by the psychological scientist Mark Schaller to refer to a suite of psychological mechanisms that allow...
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The avian immune system is the system of biological structures and cellular processes that protects birds from disease. The avian immune system resembles...
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An immune disorder is a dysfunction of the immune system. These disorders can be characterized in several different ways: By the component(s) of the immune...
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Immunosuppression (redirect from Immune system suppressant)
efficacy of the immune system. Some portions of the immune system itself have immunosuppressive effects on other parts of the immune system, and immunosuppression...
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exposure or immunization. The immune system has innate and adaptive components. Innate immunity is present in all metazoans, immune responses: inflammatory...
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century Hippocratic tradition medicine system, the immune system was imagined into two branches: humoral immunity, for which the protective function of...
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the immune system to fight diseases, and help maintain homeostasis by stabilizing temperature and natural pH. In vertebrates, the lymphatic system is complementary...
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lymphatic system, or lymphoid system, is an organ system in vertebrates that is part of the immune system, and complementary to the circulatory system. It consists...
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The Earth immune system is a controversial proposal, claimed to be a consequence of the Gaia hypothesis. The Gaia hypothesis holds that the entire earth...
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Affective forecasting (redirect from Psychological immune system)
be hastened by their psychological immune system. The psychological immune system is a metaphor "for that system of defenses that helps you feel better...
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Hypersensitivity (redirect from Immune hypersensitivity)
is an undesirable and adverse immune response to an antigen. It is an abnormality in the immune system that causes immune diseases including allergies...
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An immune response is a physiological reaction which occurs within an organism in the context of inflammation for the purpose of defending against exogenous...
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Crohn's disease (section Immune system)
seem to be an autoimmune disease (the immune system is not triggered by the body itself). The exact underlying immune problem is not clear; however, it may...
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Psychoneuroimmunology (redirect from Mental health and immunity)
the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body. It is a subfield of psychosomatic medicine. PNI takes...
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recognised as foreign antigens by the body and attacked by the immune system. However, in immune privileged sites, tissue grafts can survive for extended periods...
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Cancer immunotherapy (redirect from Immune checkpoint blockade)
(immuno-oncotherapy) is the stimulation of the immune system to treat cancer, improving the immune system's natural ability to fight the disease. It is an...
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cells. Consequently, both "arms" (B cells and T cells) of the adaptive immune system are impaired due to a defect in one of several possible genes. SCID...
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Immunotherapy (redirect from Immune modulation)
disease by activating or suppressing the immune system. Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as activation immunotherapies...
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This is a list of the main organ systems in the human body. Circulates blood around the body via the heart, arteries and veins, delivering oxygen and...
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White blood cell (redirect from Immune cells)
cells (scientific name leukocytes), also called immune cells or immunocytes, are cells of the immune system that are involved in protecting the body against...
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Milk immunity is the protection provided to immune system of an infant via the biologically active components in milk, typically provided by the infant's...
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Human body (redirect from The Body System)
body system to another regarding an enormous array of conditions, resulting in variety of changes of function. Immune system The immune system consists...
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