Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) is an inflammatory state affecting the whole body, frequently a response of the immune system to infection, but not necessarily so.

Immune tolerance or immunological tolerance describes a state of unresponsiveness of the immune system to substances or tissue that have the capacity to elicit an immune response.

In contrast, autoimmunity is an immune response to the self's own proteins.

In large burns (over 30 of the total body surface area), there is a significant inflammatory response.

The inflammatory response to bisphosphonates or fluctuations in calcium blood levels have been suggested as possible mechanisms.

This contributes to the weakened immune response seen in those infected with EBOV.

In many cases, the treatment or the immune response is worse than the disease.

This prolific production of antibodies is an integral part of the humoral immune response.

Manipulation of CpG S and CpG N sequences in the plasmid backbone of DNA vaccines can ensure the success of the immune response to the encoded antigen, and drive the immune response toward a TH1 phenotype.

Alloimmunity is an immune response to foreign antigens (alloantigens) from members of the same species.

A hapten is a small molecule that can elicit an immune response only when attached to a large carrier such as a protein the carrier may be one that also does not elicit an immune response by itself.

This can prime cytotoxic T cell responses and seems to be important for a full primary immune response.

(In general, only large molecules, infectious agents, or insoluble foreign matter can elicit an immune response in the body.

But when you're in a hurry or stressed out, that triggers something called the inflammatory response, which is associated with everything from Alzheimer's disease to cardiovascular disease.

In skeletal muscle, on the other hand, striated muscle cells are most frequently transfected, but seem to be unimportant in mounting an immune response.

Substitution of paracetamol for aspirin, researchers proposed, may have led to an enhanced allergic immune response, thereby increasing susceptibility to asthma and other allergic disorders.

This is a type II immune response in which the drug binds to macromolecules on the surface of the RBCs and acts as an antigen.

Doctors diagnosed him with Crohn s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition.

Chronic bacterial infections may also add to this inflammatory state.

Report on a case of a child with inflammatory croup.

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No country is immune.

WISER sets out to document, link and empower what Paul calls the largest movement, and fastest growing movement in human history humanity's collective immune response to today's threats.

If you lop this off and attach it to the tail of a different bacterium, which creates a vigorous immune response, they've created a very powerful flu fighter.

Nor are rich countries immune.

Erdoğan seems immune to criticism.

It was proposed that GM CSF may cause dendritic cells to present antigen more efficiently, and enhance IL 2 production and TH cell activation, thus driving the increased immune response.

Yet economists now routinely stoop to ad hominem attacks and inflammatory polemics.

You see, that's the immune system.

Everybody is immune to smallpox nowadays.

... I am now immune to it .

She has a weak immune system.

Statins, nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs and a few others, they inhibit angiogenesis too.

For example, chronic wounds often remain in the inflammatory stage for too long.

Is China Really Immune to the Crisis?

But he is not immune to miscalculation.

It is one method of immune tolerance.

But other researchers have proposed a number of plausible mechanisms, primarily related to paracetamol s negative effect on the body s ability to withstand oxidant stress and its potential enhancement of the allergic immune response.

Priming with DNA focuses the immune response on the required immunogen, while boosting with the recombinant virus provides a larger amount of expressed antigen, leading to a large increase in specific CTL responses.

Pain in cancer may arise from a tumor compressing or infiltrating nearby body parts from treatments and diagnostic procedures or from skin, nerve and other changes caused by a hormone imbalance or immune response.

But will the Bush administration use its influence to nudge Abe away from inflammatory behavior?

Some current research even suggests that aging is a consequence, in part, of inflammatory processes.

Today, no one is immune from climate change.

Certainly, French leaders are not immune to corruption.

China is hardly immune to such a possibility.