Immune System Effects
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What is the Immune System?
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2019
Overview The immune system comprises diverse biological structures and processes that protect the body from disease. These processes can be classified into innate and adaptive immunity. To work effectively, the immune system needs to detect pathogens by distinguishing the body’s own structures from foreign elements. If this determination fails, autoimmune diseases occur in which the immune system reacts against the body’s own tissue. The Innate Immune System Acts Fast and Non-specifically
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Isolation, Characterization and Functional Examination of the Gingival Immune Cell Network
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2016
We have established a technique for the isolation, phenotypic characterization and functional analysis of immune cells from murine gingiva.
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Intranasal Immunization with BCG in a Mouse Model
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2025
This video demonstrates intranasal BCG immunization in mice, activating both innate and adaptive immune responses, leading to the development of lung-resident memory T cells and effector B cells, thus enhancing protection against Mycobacterium infections.
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Humoral Immune Responses
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2019
Overview The humoral immune response, also known as the antibody-mediated immune response, targets pathogens circulating in “humors,” or extracellular fluids, such as blood and lymph. Antibodies target invading pathogens for destruction via multiple defense mechanisms, including neutralization, opsonization, and activation of the complement system. Patients that are impaired in the production of antibodies suffer from severe and frequent infections by common pathogens and unusual pathogens. B...
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Studying Organelle Dynamics in B Cells During Immune Synapse Formation
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2019
Herein we describe two approaches to characterize cell polarization events in B lymphocytes during the formation of an IS. The first, involves quantification of organelle recruitment and cytoskeleton rearrangements at the synaptic membrane. The second is a biochemical approach, to characterize changes in composition of the centrosome, which undergoes polarization to the immune synapse.
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Innate defenses act rapidly through barriers, pattern recognition, and inflammatory signaling, providing an early response to threats. Adaptive immunity develops targeted activity through B and T cells after antigen exposure. This division allows the body to combine immediate protection with more specific immune activity and memory, which is important for understanding infection responses and vaccine effects.
Pattern recognition helps innate immune cells detect signals associated with threats and initiate inflammatory signaling. Because this response occurs before targeted B- and T-cell activity develops, it helps establish an early defensive environment. Its effects can influence how quickly inflammation begins and how the broader immune response develops during infection or other medical conditions.
Immune signaling does more than control infections; it also shapes inflammation and tissue repair. These linked effects help explain why immune activity can influence recovery as well as contribute to harmful responses when healthy tissues are affected. Medical approaches therefore seek either to support protective immunity or reduce damaging immune activity while limiting injury to normal tissue.
Immunological memory gives adaptive immunity a lasting role beyond the initial response to an antigen. B and T cells are central to this targeted arm of defense, so memory provides an important basis for studying how prior exposure influences later protection. This principle is especially relevant to vaccine development, which aims to strengthen protective immunity.
Clinicians and researchers examine immune activity across several disease settings, including infections, allergies, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and immunodeficiencies. The relevant question is whether immune defenses are insufficient, misdirected, or damaging to healthy tissues. Understanding these effects supports diagnostic reasoning and helps guide treatments designed to enhance protection or reduce harmful immune activity.
Vaccine development draws on the adaptive response to antigen exposure and the formation of immunological memory. The goal is to strengthen protective immunity so the immune system can respond more effectively to a threat. This application connects cellular mechanisms involving B and T cells with a medical strategy intended to improve prevention rather than treat disease after it occurs.
Immunotherapies are relevant when medical care needs to change immune activity rather than simply target an external threat. Depending on the condition, treatment may aim to strengthen protective immunity or reduce harmful immune responses. This framework applies to conditions such as cancer, autoimmune disease, allergies, infections, and immunodeficiencies, while emphasizing limits on damage to healthy tissues.