If
adaptive system antibodies are created against that food or bacteria, then an inflammatory response can potentially be initiated every time one of them is encountered.
Not exact matches
As with innate immunity, the
adaptive immune
system — the T cells and
antibodies produced by B cells that target specific molecules on invading cells — contributes to pathology or may also fight against it.
They lavished their attention, instead, on the more advanced
adaptive immune
system, which can marshal
antibodies and other weaponry that identify and then target an intruder with a specificity lacking in the untamed innate
system.
Until now, most researchers have focused on one of two strategies: attacking tumors with
antibodies, which activate the innate immune
system, or stimulating T cells, which form the backbone of the
adaptive immune
system.
«We're taking what Mother Nature has given us in terms of molecules and
antibodies, and we're leapfrogging the
adaptive immune
system, which is not very effective against HIV,» he says.
The
adaptive immune
system has the capacity to produce
antibodies with enormous numbers of binding specificities.
Antibodies are a key component of the
adaptive immune
system — the branch of the immune
system which specifically recognises a foreign organism.
This arm of the immune
system instructs the «learned» or
adaptive system, which employs B cells and T cells to build
antibodies that continues to re-recognize the offending agent.