adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immune system
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My immune system is not as strong as it ought to be.
sb’s immune system (= they system which keeps your body healthy )
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Some drugs can damage the immune system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cell
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Professor Murray believes the root of the problem lies in a fault with the child's immune cells in the brain.
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When triggered, the alarm seems to call in squads of immune cells that surround tuberculosis bacteria and keep them from spreading.
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Since receiving the baboon marrow, Getty has had moderate increases in his immune cell numbers, Deeks said.
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Among the discoveries made in psychoneuroimmunology is that stressful events can make the immune cells far less responsive to infection.
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The children now have normal immune cell counts and live at home, without treatment.
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Conversely, mediators produced by immune cells can influence nerve cells - histamine and prostaglandins both have this effect.
deficiency
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Cryptosporidium is a cause of chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy in children without immune deficiency .
reaction
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Their resistance developed too rapidly and disappeared long before ordinary immune reactions could appear.
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Many patients have a strong family history of allergies, which are genetic and involve excessive immune reaction .
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Its cause is unknown, although it may be linked to a very long-delayed immune reaction to a virus infection years previously.
response
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It is known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit, so we have proceeded cautiously.
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Because histoplasmosis can mount an immune response , skin tests are often done.
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Discussion Coeliac disease probably represents an aberrant immune response by antigen specific T cells of the small intestine to certain cereal peptides.
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Hence the delay between the onset of flu and the immune response that cures it.
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Although H pylori does not invade the mucosa, bacterial proteins may activate monocytes with a local T-cell mediated immune response .
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This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin.
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It is possible, however, that synthetic chemicals might affect the immune response in some way.
system
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The site of the original interaction between antigen and the immune system presumably determines the distribution of the granulomatous inflammation seen.
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People with normal, healthy immune systems generally can fight off enterococcus without drugs, and might not even feel sick.
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All allergies are inappropriate responses by the body's immune system to a substance which is not normally harmful.
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Qigong is said to improve the immune system and restore physical energy.
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For instance, one medication, derived from bitter almonds, claims to boost the immune system .
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Now they know a two-pronged approach is needed: blocking the virus and rebuilding the damaged immune system .
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Carly suffers from an immune system deficiency which killed her 14-month-old brother Greig four days before she was born.
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The third is an immune system , used only by the descendants of reptiles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As intriguing as these results are, much remains unclear about the impact of low doses of alcohol on the immune sys-tem.
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Continually feeling bad about how your body looks limits your self-esteem, which eventually undercuts your immune power.
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From that fate no trader was immune .
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I thought hard about my actual immune system and the white cells of which it is largely composed.
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Their immune systems are so damaged that colds and bugs which normally take a few days to clear can take weeks or months.
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These cells form part of the immune system and help to prevent the body from getting diseases.
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Thus, there is some suggestion of variation in the immune response within Crohn's disease.
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What happens to your body then is that feelings of helplessness and hopelessness soon translate into depressed immune function.