Immune complex — Diseases An immune complex is formed from the integral binding of an antibody to a soluble antigen. The bound antigen acting as a specific epitope, bound to an antibody is referred to as a singular immune complex. After an antigen antibody… … Wikipedia
immune system disorder — Introduction Disorders of the immune systemany of various failures in the body s defense mechanisms against infectious organisms (see table (Disorders of the immune system)). Disorders of immunity include immune deficiency diseases, such… … Universalium
Immune system — A scanning electron microscope image of a single neutrophil (yellow), engulfing anthrax bacteria (orange). An immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and… … Wikipedia
immune complex — Multimolecular antibody antigen complexes that may be soluble or insoluble depending upon their size and whether or not complement is present. Immune complexes can be filtered from plasma in the kidney, and the deposition of the complexes gives… … Dictionary of molecular biology
immune complex diseases — Diseases characterized by the presence of immune complexes in body fluids. Hypersensitivity of the Arthus type and serum sickness are examples … Dictionary of molecular biology
immune complex disease — any of a variety of local or systemic diseases caused by the formation of circulating antibody antigen immune complexes and their deposition in tissue, due to activation of complement and to recruitment and activation of leukocytes; see also type … Medical dictionary
immune complex glomerulonephritis — glomerulonephritis due to formation of circulating immune complexes and their deposition in tissue, a type III hypersensitivity reaction, which causes activation of complement and an inflammatory response, leading to activation of leukocytes and… … Medical dictionary
Immune tolerance in pregnancy — or gestational/maternal immune tolerance is the absence of a maternal immune response against the fetus and placenta, which thus may be viewed as unusually successful allografts, since they genetically differ from the mother.[1] In the same way,… … Wikipedia
immune complex — n any of various molecular complexes formed in the blood by combination of an antigen and an antibody that tend to accumulate in bodily tissue and are associated with various pathological conditions (as glomerulonephritis, vasculitis, and… … Medical dictionary
immune system — Anat. a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system… … Universalium
immune adherence — the adherence of antigen antibody complexes or cells coated with antibody or complement to cells bearing complement receptors or Fc receptors. The agglutination reaction between antigen antibody complexes or antibody coated cells and indicator… … Medical dictionary