How to Use immune response in a Sentence

immune response

noun
  • The immune response takes a week or two after the shot to ramp up.
    Helena Oliviero, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The researchers found that even the 217th shot boosted the man’s immune response.
    Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The immune response lasted the full 71 days of the trial.
    Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The idea was to find a dose that was lower but still could provide the same immune response.
    Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2021
  • These cells are a different part of the immune response.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The virus spreads to new host cells as the body grapples with the overwhelming immune response.
    Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Lymph nodes swell up when the body is having an immune response.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2021
  • In theory, the third dose would boost the immune response.
    Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • This sets off a potent immune response that’s hard to stop.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The error raised questions about whether the better immune response was down to the half dose or the time between shots.
    Jason Douglas, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Four days later, Gelsinger died due to an immune response to the vector.
    Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Bloom thinks none of the changes is likely to let the virus escape the immune response entirely.
    Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Boosters are meant to strengthen the body’s immune response.
    Emily K. Brunson, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Getting a booster shot to top up that immune response is a good idea.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Agarwood is the tree’s immune response to the infection, like how our skin forms a scab when we get cut.
    Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
  • As a result, people may be more exposed to the virus and may not mount a strong enough immune response.
    Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2025
  • This type of vaccine prompts the body to make a protein that is part of the pathogen, triggering an immune response.
    Washington Post, 5 Jan. 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
  • The changes more likely to survive are those more resistant to the immune response.
    David Heath, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The study would use that dose of virus to study how vaccines work in the body to prevent Covid-19, to look at potential treatments and study the immune response.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • This reaction is known as a Th2 immune response, for type 2 T helper cells.
    Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
  • By comparison, all healthy adults who were part of the study showed an immune response.
    Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2021
  • What’s more, in nearly 70% of people in the trial, the vaccine appeared to trigger an immune response not just to KRAS mutations, but to other tumor cell targets that were not in the vaccine.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 11 Aug. 2025
  • These findings highlight the importance of neurons that sense pain and itching in successful immune responses.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025

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