(a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
(a.) Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(2) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(3) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
(4) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(5) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
(6) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(7) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(8) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(9) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(10) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(11) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(12) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(13) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(14) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(15) The literature on depression and immunity is reviewed and the clinical implications of our findings are discussed.
(16) These results suggest that CD4+ protective T cells generated by immunization with vBCG are characterized by the ability to produce IFN-gamma after stimulation with specific Ag.
(17) All of the rabbits immunized with FCA developed sterile subcutaneous abscesses.
(18) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(19) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(20) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
Insusceptible
Definition:
(a.) Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is complete within 15-21 days and is coincident with the onset of insusceptibility to disease caused by JHMV.
(2) which are insusceptible to infection has been proposed as a possible method of controlling schistosomiasis.
(3) Results showed that the susceptible group had more bleeding, less plaque and deeper pockets than the insusceptible group.
(4) The parameters of humoral and cell-mediated immunity after inoculation of the infectious and inactivated antigen of Lassa virus to rabbits which are insusceptible to this infection were studied.
(5) However, until now there has been no evidence for degradation of this dioxin in biological systems, and it is considered unusual that a compound which is insusceptible to biological attack should be so extremely toxic.
(6) By contrast, Lymphoma -RG1 cells, known from previous work to be wholly insusceptible to the effects of guinea pig serum in vivo and independent of need for extrinsic asparagine for protein synthesis and growth in vitro, showed no curtailment whatever of protein synthesis following exposures to the effects of heated guinea pig serum in vivo during periods of 15, 60, and 120 min.
(7) Late passage cat cells became very insusceptible to MSV(FeX) but not to other pseudotypes of MSV.
(8) The maximal number of NDS-TEMPO binding sites per cell was in the range of 9.0 X 10(5) to 1.10 X 10(6) and was found to be insusceptible to changes of pH.
(9) These 13 strains fell into three groups: four strains that produced enzymes of low specific activity which were very susceptible to beta-lactamase inhibitors; three strains that produced enzymes of intermediate specific activity which hydrolysed cefoxitin and latamoxef at a variable rate; two of these enzymes rapidly inactivated imipenem and were insusceptible to beta-lactamase inhibitors; six strains that produced enzymes of high specific activity which were susceptible to beta-lactamase inhibitors; these strains did not inactivate beta-lactamase-stable beta-lactam antibiotics, but two of the strains nonetheless exhibited reduced susceptibility to latamoxef and imipenem.
(10) However, with the remaining colicins, three distinct HLf-binding, colicin susceptibility patterns were observed; (i) 10 of 10 HLf low-binding strains were colicin insusceptible, (ii) 6 of 10 HLf high-binding strains were also colicin insusceptible, and (iii) the remaining HLf high binders were highly colicin susceptible.
(11) The fetal trophoblast is able to act as a protective barrier by virtue of unique properties, including a lack of conventional class I and class II HLA molecules, that render it insusceptible to immune attack.
(12) Respiratory, alimentary and urogenital tract tissues were susceptible whereas neural and lymphopoietic tissues were insusceptible.
(13) Thus, NCTC differs from NK on the basis of the spectrum of targets against which it is functional, phenotypic surface markers, insusceptibility to stimulation with poly(I:C), and insensitivity to diminution by the immunosuppressive drugs cyclophosphamide and hydrocortisone.
(14) Purified native Hemophilus influenzae DNA is relatively insusceptible to nitrous acid (NA) mutagenesis in vitro, but is readily mutated following denaturation.
(15) With reference to antimicrobial activity penicillins and cephazolin showed excellent activity and no resistance; peptides, of the agents used as growth promoters, showed that all except bacitracin had low minimum inhibitory concentration levels (1.6 micrograms ml-1 or less) against this organism; polyethers of monensin, salinomycin and lasalocid were generally adequate in low concentrations while there was a high level of resistance to three tetracyclines in 90 per cent of the strains and all isolates were insusceptible to streptomycin of the aminoglycoside antibiotics.
(16) Non-beta-lactamase-mediated insusceptibility to beta-lactams was studied in Haemophilus influenzae.
(17) Each of the four blocks had been divided three times to be grown with three different crop sequences containing 80%, 60% (with the insusceptible corn), or 40% haulm fruit, respectively.
(18) This report investigates the possibility that incomplete immunity in this system is governed by a genetically-determined insusceptibility of a particular schistosome subpopulation.
(19) Cefoxitin was highly resistant to hydrolysis by beta-lactamases derived from the organisms insusceptible to the antibiotic.
(20) Organ cultures of ferret foetal tissues showed a similar pattern of susceptibility to influenza virus to that already observed for human foetal tissues (Rosztoczy et al., 1975); respiratory, alimentary and urogenital tissues supported the replication of influenza virus but nervous and lymphopoietic tissues (those which, in man, are associated with foetal or postnatal abnormalities) were insusceptible.