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
How To Use immune reaction In A Sentence
- Faustman’s approach offered a distinct advantage over much of the current treatment in autoimmunity, which is usually more broadly immunosuppressive—meaning it tinkers with all T cells or all B cells in order to try to keep the autoimmune reaction from occurring. The Autoimmune Epidemic
- One strategy to improve the immune reaction is to make what are called heteroclitic antigen variants.
- The cable explained that he "suffered a rare auto-immune reaction to the procedure and the plugs had to be removed. Gaddafi is ecccentric but the firm master of his regime, Wikileaks cables say
- Its cause is unknown, although it may be linked to a very long-delayed immune reaction to a virus infection years previously.
- Many patients have a strong family history of allergies, which are genetic and involve excessive immune reaction.
- Patients consequently developed fatal immune reactions from pyrogens that had not been removed properly from the oxygenators.
- It would appear that most inorganic mercuric and mercurous salts do not provoke immune reactions.
- Metallic mercury apparently does not cause hypersensitivity and is relevant only as a source of mercury vapor; it would appear that most inorganic mercuric and mercurous salts do not provoke immune reactions.
- During human evolutionary history women couldn't afford to conceive as a consequence of being inseminated by just any man, and the presence of semen in the female reproductive tract often triggers an immune reaction that treats the sperm as a pathogen. Lazar Greenfield's 'Semengate' Stuns Scientific Community
- These problems do not occur with adenoviral vectors, but expression persists for only a short time, thus requiring repeated administration, leading to immune reactions.
