18.1 Overview of Specific Adaptive Immunity

由 JS Marshall 著作 · 2018 · 被引用 994 次 — A critical feature of adaptive immunity is the development of immunologic memory or the ability of the system to learn or record its experiences ...

1. Self-Recognition. In healthy, immune competent individuals, immune responses are not produced against self-components. · 2. Specificity · 3. Memory.

由 CA Janeway Jr 著作 · 2001 · 被引用 181 次 — The abilities to recognize all pathogens specifically and to provide enhanced protection against reinfection are the unique features of adaptive immunity, which ...

Adaptive immunity is important because it provides us with an everlasting defense system that can be used against new and varying microbes. The mechanism by ...

2016年11月1日 — Adaptive immunity is defined by two important characteristics: specificity and memory. Specificity refers to the adaptive immune system's ...

The function of adaptive immune responses is to destroy invading pathogens and any toxic molecules they produce. Because these responses are destructive, it is ...

Adaptive immunity can provide long-lasting protection, sometimes for the person's entire lifetime. For example, someone who recovers from measles is now ...

A third important feature of the adaptive immune response is its ability to distinguish between self-antigens, those that are normally present in the body, and ...