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Immune System

"Immune System" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The body's defense mechanism against foreign organisms or substances and deviant native cells. It includes the humoral immune response and the cell-mediated response and consists of a complex of interrelated cellular, molecular, and genetic components.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Immune System" by people in this website by year, and whether "Immune System" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 33 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2007
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