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Immunity

(Science: immunology) The condition of being immune, the protection against infectious disease conferred either by the immune response generated by immunisation or previous infection or by other nonimmunologic factors.

Origin: L. Immunitas The quality of being unaffected by something; immunity to criticism.An act exempting someone; he was granted immunity from prosecution.The state of not being susceptible; unsusceptibility to rust.(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease.See active and passive immunity.


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Sperm Immunity of Womens

How mamalian sperm protect them self from normal female "immunological Response" ???? Can you please help me ??

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by Helics
Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:15 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Sperm Immunity of Womens
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Views: 900

Re: Re:

... hand vaccinations immediately save lives, a good thing, but on the other hand, you have increased the number of people who will have low natural immunity, in the genetic sense. Unless the wild virus, or whatever, is eliminated, you will have a steadily increasing number of people who depend on ...

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by Rap
Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:06 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: evolution and endangered species
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Views: 2081

Re: Theories - Origin of Life

... bacteria which are naturally immune to man-made antibiotics because they are immune to natural antibiotics? And that these bacteria spread their immunity through horizontal gene transfer? Which brings us back to the experimentally verified fact that mutation can also cause immunity. In which ...

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by Luxorien
Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:57 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
Replies: 548
Views: 534352

Vaccine for HIV

... years. However, the classical vaccination approaches that have been successful in the control of various viral diseases by priming the adaptive immunity to recognize the viral envelope proteins have failed in the case of HIV-1. Some have stated that an HIV vaccine may not be possible without ...

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by suzidoc8
Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:47 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Vaccine for HIV
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Views: 3724

Re: Theories - Origin of Life

Luxorien Actually, I mentioned HIV immunity and antibiotic resistance as examples of beneficial mutations. I brought up sickle cell anemia as an interesting example of how the term beneficial can be relative. I said all this before, and you ...

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by scottie
Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:22 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
Replies: 548
Views: 534352
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