Sentence examples for invading agents from inspiring English sources

The ability to identify immunoreactants (immunoglobulins, or antibodies, that react with specific invading agents, or antigens) in skin biopsies has greatly increased the accuracy of the diagnosis of inflammatory disorders and has clarified their immunologic basis, especially in the blistering disorders.

The aim of the immune system is to recognize invading agents and damaged host cells, contain and neutralize the threat and eventually allow healing.

Clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR) loci represent heritable and adaptive primitive immune systems in bacteria and archaea against invading agents such as bacteriophages or plasmids [25].

Epidermal Langerhans cells survey invading agents and transmit the information into immune cells.

The common property of phytoallexins is to inhibit or destroy the invading agents such as bacteria, insects, and viruses.

All the analogies notwithstanding, the predicted psiRNA system shows at least one fundamental difference from the eukaryotic counterpart: the coding segments for the putative psiRNAs are derived from genes of invading agents and incorporated into the host genome to confer heritable immunity to the respective agent.

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The rise in serum fibrinogen promotes blood clotting, which can serve to isolate the invading agent by triggering thrombosis in infected tissues.

This generates specific B and T cell clones that combat the invading agent by neutralizing it with antibodies, or by killing the cells that have been infected by it.

Granulomas serve as protective mechanism to sequester and degrade the invading agent.

But what is not known is how the virus proceeds to destroy the body's CD4 cells that are needed to combat invading infectious agents.