Infection & Immunity terms
Infectious agents, immune responses, vaccines, inflammation, and immune disorders. Browse definitions and meanings below.
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A type of immune cell that has granules (small particles) with enzymes that can kill tumor cells or cells infected with a virus.
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A type of immune cell that is one of the first cell types to travel to the site of an infection.
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A type of immune cell that has granules (small particles) with enzymes that can kill tumor cells or cells infected with a virus.
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A type of immune cell that has granules (small particles) with enzymes that can kill tumor cells or cells infected with a virus.
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A rare type of Hodgkin lymphoma, which is a cancer of the immune system.
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A cell (such as a phagocyte or a macrophage) that responds to many antigens, not just one antigen.
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A virus being studied in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors and other types of cancer.
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A type of fat obtained in the diet and involved in immunity.
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A type of virus that infects and lyses (breaks down) cancer cells but not normal cells.
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An infection caused by an organism that does not normally cause disease.
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A living thing, such as an animal, a plant, a bacterium, or a fungus.
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(Other name for: autologous dinitrophenyl-modified ovarian cancer vaccine)
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A peptide-based cancer vaccine composed of amino acids 264 to 272 of the wild-type protein encoded by the P53 gene.
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A peptide vaccine consisting of 10 synthetic long peptides (SLPs), 25-30 amino acids in size and derived from the middle portion of p53 (amino acids 70-251), mixed with the adjuvant Montanide ISA-51…
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A peptide-based vaccine containing a pan HLA DR-binding epitope (PADRE) fused to a cytomegalovirus (CMV) peptide epitope, with potential anti-viral and immunomodulating activities.
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(Other name for: therapeutic immune globulin)
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A type of virus that has hemagglutinin-neuraminidase proteins in the outer coat and RNA as the genetic material.
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An animal or plant that gets nutrients by living on or in an organism of another species.
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Having to do with or being a parasite (an animal or plant that gets nutrients by living on or in an organism of another species).
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A rare disorder in which red blood cells are easily destroyed by certain immune system proteins.