How to Use immune response in a Sentence

immune response

noun
  • 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 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
  • In other words, the nerve that detects itch sensed the bacteria even if there was no immune response.
    Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The hope is that Ayla’s early treatment will reduce the severity of that immune response.
    Time, 10 Nov. 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
  • The reason is that during pregnancy the ability of the body to mount an immune response is diminished.
    cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
  • They are caused by the body’s immune response to being infected with a parasite.
    Sarah Sloat, Health, 26 July 2023
  • Some of these parts of the adaptive immune response exhibited long-lasting changes.
    Celia Ford, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Yancey said that, theoretically, the more times people are exposed to the virus, the more robust their immune response should be.
    Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 21 Aug. 2023
  • At the time the boosters were released, many experts endorsed them, noting that tests on animals showed a good immune response.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2022
  • To make matters worse, Breed’s immune response was growing more severe.
    Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The animals mounted an immune response, but only a modest one, Hu said.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • These are substances that can trigger an immune response to a transfusion in some people.
    David Hampton, Verywell Health, 18 July 2023
  • Researchers in Germany found people who got all their shots in one arm had a stronger immune response than those who distributed shots between both arms.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Some studies suggest that the behavioral changes in mice may be caused by the immune response to the parasite, which causes inflammation in the brain.
    Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
  • These three spices are anti-inflammatory, and can boost the immune response.
    Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The virus has mutated significantly over the last two and a half years, leading to evasion of the immune response to infection.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022

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