Wiktionary
n. (context immunology English) The body's integrated response to an antigen, mediated by lymphocytes.
WordNet
n. a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen [syn: immune reaction, immunologic response]
Usage examples of "immune response".
The HIV provirus had infected cells and obstructed the immune response.
Men demonstrate a strong immune response to SHEVA they do not themselves produce.
We go for the closest possible tissue match, then damp down the immune response.
A little overweight maybe, and that can sometimes affect the immune response, but the wound he had in his leg .
David wondered again about a possible failure of her immune response.
It is an important part of T-cell production and hence of the body's immune response system.
Trojans were bacteria which could reproduce themselves and their hidden pathogenic cargo-without symptoms or an immune response-for dozens of generations .
Undoubtedly it will cause some pain and perhaps a little scarring, but it can also trigger an immune response, the development of the capacity to fight.
The regimen, to be marketed under the name Histamex, consists of individually engineered histamine and immune response blockers delivered through the bloodstream by millions of self-replicating nanomachines, each about one-fifth the size of a human cell.
We know that Grace somehow solved the problem with the immune response because Jason was not a bubble boy and had a fully intact immune system.
Cortico-steroids, which are produced in the cortex of the adrenal glands, have the power to suppress inflammation and the immune response.