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memory cells — T and B lymphocytes that mediate immunologic memory (q.v.); believed to retain information that permits a subsequent challenge to be followed by a more rapid, efficient immune response on subsequent exposures to an antigen than occurred on first… … Medical dictionary
Immunologic adjuvant — In immunology, an adjuvant is an agent that may stimulate the immune system and increase the response to a vaccine, without having any specific antigenic effect in itself. [ [http://www.cancer.gov/templates/db alpha.aspx?CdrID=43987 Definition of … Wikipedia
Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… … Medical dictionary
Interleukin 2 — (IL 2) is an interleukin, a type of cytokine immune system signaling molecule, that is instrumental in the body s natural response to microbial infection and in discriminating between foreign (non self) and self. IL 2 mediates its effects by… … Wikipedia
infectious disease — Introduction in medicine, a process caused by a microorganism that impairs a person s health. An infection, by contrast, is the invasion of and replication in the body by any of various microbial agents including bacteria, viruses (virus),… … Universalium
lymphocyte — lymphocytic /lim feuh sit ik/, adj. /lim feuh suyt /, n. Anat. a type of white blood cell having a large, spherical nucleus surrounded by a thin layer of nongranular cytoplasm. Cf. B cell, T cell. [1885 90; LYMPHO + CYTE] * * * Type of leukocyte… … Universalium
anamnesis — 1. The act of remembering. 2. The medical or developmental history of a patient. [G. a., recollection] * * * an·am·ne·sis .an .am nē səs n, pl ne·ses .sēz 1) a recalling to mind 2) a preliminary case history of a medical or psychiatric patient *… … Medical dictionary
allosensitization — Exposure to an alloantigen that induces immunologic memory cells. * * * al·lo·sen·si·ti·za·tion (al″o sen″sĭ ti zaґshən) sensitization to alloantigens (isoantigens), as to Rh antigens during pregnancy (see Rh… … Medical dictionary
natural selection theory — the first selective theory of antibody formation, according to which about a million different antibody molecules are constantly being produced at low levels; when an antibody combines with a complementary antigen the complex is taken up by… … Medical dictionary
autoimmunity — The state of having acquired an immunologic memory that says a normal cell membrane is other , and having forming antibody responses against it. A viral infection or organic chemical (hapten) may have started the response, but surviving… … Herbal-medical glossary
