IMMUNE RESPONSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immune response mean? 

• IMMUNE RESPONSE (noun)
  The noun IMMUNE RESPONSE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: IMMUNE RESPONSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUNE RESPONSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

immune reaction; immune response; immunologic response

Hypernyms ("immune response" is a kind of...):

reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

Meronyms (parts of "immune response"):

complement (one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response)

Domain category:

bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immune response"):

anamnestic reaction; anamnestic response (renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen)

humoral immune response (an immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells)

cell-mediated immune response (an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells)

complement fixation (an immune response in which an antigen-antibody combination inactivates a complement (so it is unavailable to participate in a second antigen-antibody combination))

 Context examples 

A vaccine composed of tumor cells isolated from the tumor of one patient, killed and processed, and administered to another patient to stimulate cytotoxic immune responses to a similar tumor cell type.

(Allogeneic Tumor Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Allogeneic multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs) are non-immunogenic due to the lack of major histocompatibility (MHC) molecule expression, and so elicit no immune response upon administration.

(Allogeneic Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Alloimmunization is an immune response to foreign (donor) antigens.

(Alloimmunization, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent has been shown to stimulate a host immune response against tumor cells that express CEA.

(ALVAC-B7-CEA, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccines using pieces of the Melan-A protein are being studied for their ability to boost the immune response to cancer cells in patients with melanoma.

(Melan-A protein, NCI Dictionary)

Upon administration, this vaccine may stimulate a cytotoxic immune response against melanoma tumor cells.

(Allogeneic Melanoma Vaccine AGI-101H, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, the 4-1BB ligand of the allogeneic HLA-A2/4-1BB ligand-expressing melanoma vaccine binds to 4-1BB on activated T-lymphocytes, which induces a strong immune response against HLA-A2 positive melanoma cells.

(Allogeneic HLA-A2/4-1BB ligand-expressing Melanoma Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The ability to nonspecifically stimulate the immune response.

(Adjuvanticity, NCI Thesaurus)

A study of influenza virus transmission in Nicaraguan households reveals new insights into the type of immune responses that may be protective against influenza virus infection, report investigators.

(New study reveals a novel indicator of influenza immunity, National Institutes of Health)

GM-CSF may potentiate the immune response against cancer cells expressing the HER2/Neu antigen.

(AE37 Peptide/GM-CSF Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)