Sentences with phrase «called immune escape»
The parasites» AMA - 1 could change so that vaccine - induced immunity won't recognise it, a process called immune escape.
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The bacteria hide within human cells called macrophages, escaping the body's own immune defenses and being shielded from many types of antibiotics.
Some of these randomly generated «escape mutants,» as they are called, would then be selected for survival in succeeding generations of the virus, since they would possess the advantage of being «fitter» — avoiding the body's immune response — than their nonmutated counterparts.
One of these escape mechanisms involves a type of immune cell called myeloid - derived suppressor cells (MDSCs).
If the proteins manage to escape before they are fully digested, the immune system sounds the alert, mobilizing the reaction that we call allergies.