Sentences with phrase «adaptive immune cells called»

As the infection progresses, adaptive immune cells called T cells move to the area of infection, where they detect and kill infected cells.

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FcRn bears an intriguing structural resemblance to molecules called major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, which function in the vertebrate adaptive immune response by presenting antigenic peptides to T cells.

For HIV to develop into full - blown AIDS, the virus must deplete a subset of immune cells called CD4 + T cells, disabling an infected person's adaptive immune system in the process.

These cells, along with dendritic cells, recognize the incoming undigested food particles, toxic agents, and bacterial components as foreign invaders, and present them to cells of the adaptive immune system called T and B lymphocytes, leading to clonal expansion (proliferation or multiplication of specific subsets of T and B cells) and recruitment of more pro-inflammatory immune cells to the gut through a process called leukocyte homing.

What ends up happening is IgG cells from our adaptive immune system are called in to attack.