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unusual facts about immune system


Ascaridia

Clinical signs are more common in young chickens less than three months old as older chicken develop some resistance to infection.


IFIT proteins

These proteins are generally produced during viral infection, Interferon (IFN) treatment, and during pathogen recognition (Pathogen associated molecular pattern recognition) by immune system during infections.

Kunjin virus

In 2005, scientists at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research and the University of Queensland found that modified Kunjin virus particles injected into mice were able to deliver a gene into the immune system targeting cancer cells.

Sasangasana

Rabbit pose lengthens the spine and stretches the back, arms, and shoulders while stimulating the immune and endocrine systems.

Shwartzman phenomenon

The Shwartzman phenomenon is named for Gregory Shwartzman, the doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City who was the first to develop the concept of immune system hypersensitivity in the 1920s.

Squalene

Immunologic adjuvants are substances, administered in conjunction with a vaccine, that stimulate the immune system and increase the response to the vaccine.


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2012 Football League Cup Final

Captain Mark Hudson had a calf problem, while midfielder Stephen McPhail had missed Cardiff's last four matches as he was suffering from Sjögren's syndrome, an immune system disorder.

ABPA

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, a condition characterised by an exaggerated response of the immune system

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

The company is also involved in research regarding the immune system and how it can be stopped from attacking healthy tissue (done by inhibiting terminal complements).

Apocynin

NADPH oxidase is an enzyme that effectively reduces O2 to superoxide (O2–•), which can be used by the immune system to kill bacteria and fungi.

Due to the selectivity of its inhibition, apocynin can be widely used as an inhibitor of NADPH oxidase without interfering in other aspects of the immune system.

Carlos Pardo-Villamizar

Pardo's 2005 study, published in the Annals of Neurology, has been cited by many promoters of alternative autism therapies, such as Dan Rossignol, to justify treating children "with a blood product typically reserved for people with severe immune system disorders like the one known as bubble boy disease."

Central Bearded Dragon

Captives world wide are threatened by Agamid adenovirus, a virus that compromises the immune system of the dragon, and leads to death from other diseases.

Earth immune system

An opposite view is that humankind is Gaia's immune system itself, perhaps evolved to avert future catastrophes such as the Permian and Cretaceous mass extinctions of species.

Entry inhibitor

CD4, a protein receptor found on the surface of helper T cells in the human immune system, also called CD4+ T cells

Eric Foreman

Upon giving orders for a patient to be given immunosuppressing radiation treatment and then learning that it was nothing more than a staph infection (the radiation therapy killed the patient's immune system, essentially dooming her to a painful death), he is visibly agonized and blames himself for killing her.

Galactooligosaccharide

The gut and immune system form a complex structure that provides defence against ingested toxins and pathogenic bacteria.

Georges Mathé

Dr. Brian Bolwell, chief of hematology at the Cleveland Clinic noted that Dr. Mathé had proved an important principle: "You can cure an incurable leukemia patient.", and had developed both a technique and an important term, "adoptive immunotherapy," to describe how a person’s own immune system can be used to combat cancer and other diseases.

Gerald Crabtree

Teaming up with Stuart Schreiber from Harvard University, they began to study the calcium-calcineurin-NFAT pathway essential to function of the immune system and vertebrate development including neural and heart development.

Immunogenicity

In: Charles Janeway, Paul Travers, Mark Walport, Mark Shlomchik: Immunobiology. The Immune System in Health and Disease. 6th Edition.

Immunostimulant

#Non-specific immunostimulants act irrespective of antigenic specificity to augment immune response of other antigen or stimulate components of the immune system without antigenic specificity, such as adjuvants and non-specific immunostimulators.

Influenza Virus C

After an individual becomes infected, the immune system develops antibodies against that infectious agent.

Natural genetic engineering

Shapiro drew from work as diverse as the adaptivity of the mammalian immune system, ciliate macronuclei and epigenetics.

Non-coding RNA

Mutations within RNase MRP have been shown to cause cartilage-hair hypoplasia, a disease associated with an array of symptoms such as short stature, sparse hair, skeletal abnormalities and a suppressed immune system that is frequent among Amish and Finnish.

Provocation

Provocation test, a way of medical testing for conditions such as an allergy by provoking the immune system's response

Sarcoid

Sarcoidosis, a multi-organ immune system disorder characterised by non-necrotising granulomas commonly affecting the lungs and eyes

Tetrathionate

Tetrathionate has also been found to serve as a terminal electron acceptor for Salmonella Typhimurium, whereas existing thiosulfate in the lumen of mammals is oxidized by reactive oxygen species released by the immune system (mainly NADPH oxidase produced superoxide) to form tetrathionate.

Ursinus College

1972: Dr. Gerald Edelman '50, wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system, becoming the college's first Nobel laureate.

ViroStatics

Unlike traditional anti-HIV medications that seek solely to reduce viral replication, AV-HALTs also target the chronic immune system hyperactivation now known to contribute to the loss of CD4 T helper cells and disease progression to AIDS.

Weismann barrier

A controversial theory of Edward J. Steele's suggests that endogenous retroviruses carry new versions of V genes from soma cells in the immune system to the germ line cells.