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Thymocyte

... peptides presented on MHC class I or class II are induced to upregulate Bim, a protein which drives apoptosis. Cells which do not have a high affinity for self ('safe' cells) survive negative selection. Negative selection can occur at the double positive stage in the cortex. However the repertoire of pepti...

Proteopathy

...ame protein. In this way, the disease state can be induced in a susceptible host by the introduction of diseased tissue extract from an afflicted donor. The best known form of such infectious (or transmissible) proteopathy is prion disease , which can be transmitted by exposure of a host organism to purifie...

High Frequency Ventilation

...n and oxygenation at a reduced risk of ventilator induced lung injury (VILI). This is commonly referred to...ve ventilation . Contents 1 Ventilator induced lung injury 2 Types of High Frequency Ventilation 2.1 High Frequency Oscillatory Venti...

Heterophile

... Medical Heterophile Antibodies are antibodies induced by external antigens (Heterophile Antigens) that nevertheless cross-react with self-antigens. For example antibodies against Group A Streptococcus cell walls can also react with human heart tissues. These are considered heterophile antibodies....

Artificial induction of immunity

...eory of infectious disease, we have increasingly induced immunity against a widening range of diseases to ...lso conferred immunity to smallpox. [3] Jenner induced cowpox infection by transferring material from a lesion on one patient to another, thus infecting th...