Sentences with phrase «identifying foreign substances»

Allergic symptoms occur when the body identifies a foreign substance as harmful and attacks the substance.

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The job of the immune system is to identify «foreign» substances in the body and attack them.
Your immune system has a very sophisticated system for keeping you safe that leads it to identify all of the foreign substances that enter your body or that you come into contact with.
Your immune system is responsible for identifying and destroying foreign substances (antigens) in the body such as bacteria and viruses.
Autoimmune disease means that a dog's immune system has incorrectly identified some substance in the body as a foreign intruder, and is creating antibodies directed against the dog itself (autoantibodies), rather than the bacteria, viruses, etc. against which they should be directed.
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