How to Use immune response in a Sentence

immune response

noun
  • These therapies work by blocking the proteins that prevent T-cells from attacking cancer cells, thereby boosting the body’s immune response.
    Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The researchers found that even the 217th shot boosted the man’s immune response.
    Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • These cells are a different part of the immune response.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The hope here is that the virus will amplify the body’s immune response against cancer.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 May 2022
  • The robust immune response to BA.2.86, though surprising, makes sense due to the lineage of the virus, Barouch said.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Four days later, Gelsinger died due to an immune response to the vector.
    Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Boosters are meant to strengthen the body’s immune response.
    Emily K. Brunson, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The immune response that the body generates is also correlated to the amount of virus the body sees.
    Alice Park, Time, 21 Sep. 2022
  • That booster was shown to be safe and produced an immune response.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Results of the trial were released May 23 and showed that the vaccine appeared to be safe and had a strong immune response.
    Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 1 June 2022
  • In other words, the nerve that detects itch sensed the bacteria even if there was no immune response.
    Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Chronic stress, on the other hand, can suppress the immune response.
    USA Today, 23 May 2022
  • Researchers found that getting the shot around the middle of the day boosted the immune response more than earlier or later in the day.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2023
  • The immune response was much stronger: No viral RNA was detected in the lungs of the eight mice that received the bivalent vaccine.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Someone can be intolerant to the lactose in milk, but will not have an immune response.
    Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • On the flip side, years of research has found sleep — and especially the deepest, most healing kind — boosts immune response.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, there was no way a drug detectable by the immune system could bind to it and initiate an immune response.
    Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Each time a person is exposed, the immune response matures and improves.
    Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 16 June 2022
  • His team also measured another part of the immune response from T cells.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This complex spit prevents clotting and tamps down the victim’s immune response.
    John Sass, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The lymph system plays a crucial part in the immune response, distributing white blood cells that fight infection to various parts of the body.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
  • Sure enough, the long-term effect of smoking on the immune response also appears to be linked to epigenetics.
    Celia Ford, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
  • That could suggest that the immune response — rather than the virus itself — triggers liver damage.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 29 July 2022
  • The hope is that Ayla’s early treatment will reduce the severity of that immune response.
    Time, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But some medical experts are concerned that the immune response from a smaller dose won't last as long.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The reason why mixing vaccines might produce a more robust immune response goes back to how each one presents the spike protein of the virus to the immune system.
    Mitzi Nagarkatti, The Conversation, 27 June 2022
  • The findings don’t explain why that immune response is out of whack, and need confirming in larger studies.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • This means that only one-fifth of the dosage of the initial monkeypox vaccine will be needed to spark an effective immune response against the virus.
    Fox News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The reason is that during pregnancy the ability of the body to mount an immune response is diminished.
    cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
  • And new nasal vaccines in development aim to block infection at the start by eliciting an adaptive immune response in the nose rather than the circulatory system.
    Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 3 July 2024

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