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The study of the immune system in organisms, primarily responsible for fighting infection.
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What is the purpose of requiring two separate binding systems for the antibody response?
Immunity can be a double edge sword. It is aimed to detect and destroy invading pathogens but it can also target the self, as exemplified in autoimmune diseases. To avoid this, many failsafe mechanism …
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Why don't antibodies generally bind to food and drugs?
B cells containing receptors against food's or drug's molecular structures may exists. However if the naive B cell binds the molecule without a second signal coming simultaneously from CD4 Tfh cells ( …
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peptide MHC microarray
According to this paper (Yoav Soen et al. PLoS Biology 2003), peptide:MHC microarrays are a type of cellular microarray (a microarray designed to identify cell types; Wikipedia). These microarrays hav …
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Why don't we develop immunity against common cold?
Long lasting immunity is obtained by means of the adaptive immune system, and mainly involves the development of antibodies that identify specific parts (epitopes) of the pathogen's proteins. Common c …
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