The phrase "immunologic reaction" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a bodily response to a foreign substance, such as a virus or bacteria, that triggers the body's immune system to protect itself. Example: "After receiving the vaccine, the patient experienced a strong immunologic reaction, resulting in fever, swelling, and redness at the injection site."
Although ROSA 26 mice are on a C57BL/6 background and the brain is a relatively immunological privileged site, an immunologic reaction cannot be excluded.
Or, he said, perhaps sperm or semen somehow stimulate a relatively short-lived immunologic reaction in the women that protects them.
Although most persons develop an immunologic reaction to scabies, acquired immunity is poor or nonexistent, and recurring attacks are common.
Myocarditis may also occur as a manifestation of a generalized hypersensitivity (allergic or immunologic) reaction throughout the body.
The new infected cell finding also supports the theory that the SARS virus prompts substances known as cytokines, like interferon and tumor necrosis factor, to produce an immunologic reaction that can damage the lungs and other organs.
Some texts also call Reiter's syndrome reactive arthritis because doctors have learned that the joint inflammation seems to be an immunologic reaction to a sexually transmitted infection or dysentery among people who have a genetic predisposition to it.
Vitiligo is usually a slowly progressive disorder that is probably the result of abnormal immunologic reactions against constituents of the body's own cells (autoimmunity).
They are responsible for immunologic reactions to invading organisms, foreign cells such as those of a transplanted organ, and foreign proteins and other antigens not necessarily derived from living cells.
These include physical damage to red cells, as when blood is heated, is forced under great pressure through a small needle, or is subjected to freezing and thawing; chemical damage to red cells by agents such as bile salts, detergents, and certain snake venoms; and damage caused by immunologic reactions that may occur when antibodies attach to red cells in the presence of complement.
Acute phase response itself is an illness and may result from immunologic reactions and inflammatory processes.
There is limited knowledge about inflammatory and immunologic reactions to larvicidal therapy.
