immune response
nounDefinition of immune response
: a bodily response to an antigen that occurs when lymphocytes identify the antigenic molecule as foreign and induce the formation of antibodies and lymphocytes capable of reacting with it and rendering it harmless
— called also immune reaction
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The resultant immune response is the consequence of an ancient system for maintaining the sovereignty of organisms. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, "The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies," 15 July 2019 It’s used in some vaccines to boost the immune response and make a vaccine more effective and long-lasting. — Alex Whiting, Quartz, "How France is convincing its citizens to get vaccinated," 26 June 2019 The same way an athlete develops muscle memory during training, vaccines help your immune system develop memory cells so antibodies can respond better and faster to antigens (any foreign cell or substance that triggers an immune response). — CNN, "These dogs are getting a cancer vaccine. If it works, humans could be next," 21 June 2019 But rather, [the vaccine] is a collage of virus strains that aims to provide the best immune responses to combat the genetic diversity of HIV worldwide. — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, "State of Science: A New Weapon Against HIV," 1 Jan. 2019 So Tuschl suspects that something about the fusion process, or perhaps something inside the vesicle, which can carry many different types of molecules, could trigger an immune response within the cell. — Quanta Magazine, "RNA’s Secret Life Outside the Cell," 8 Nov. 2013 Blocking inflammation in mice living in sterile cages may reduce cancer, but a similar strategy in people in the real world could limit defenses against infections because inflammation is part of our immune response. — Robert Gatenby, Scientific American, "Darwin’s Ideas on Evolution Drive a Radical New Approach to Cancer Drug Use," 3 Aug. 2019 The answer to that question came in a series of breakthrough discoveries of how cancer uses tricks to turn off, hide from, and overwhelm our immune response. — Charles Graeber, WIRED, "How Scientists Built a ‘Living Drug’ to Beat Cancer," 25 July 2019 Knox says endocannabinoid receptors called CB1 and CB2 work in the lungs to modulate immune responses to inflammation. — Mary Emily O'hara, Allure, "Why People With Asthma Can Benefit From Edibles," 20 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'immune response.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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