immunity articles
What is the fundamental goal of vaccination regarding disease manifestation?
What molecular structure introduced by a vaccine is recognized as foreign by the immune system?
Where do antigen-presenting cells travel after engulfing vaccine material to show it to naïve cells?
What cellular components are the biological archives responsible for long-term immunity?
How quickly can effective antibody levels typically begin production during a secondary (anamnestic) response?
What happens to the majority of B and T cells activated during the primary immune response after the perceived threat passes?
What must an unvaccinated person's immune system do upon initial exposure to a real pathogen?
What is the primary function of administering a booster shot?
What measurement is often used by scientists to track long-term protection, reflecting the concentration of circulating antibodies?
How does achieving immunity through natural infection compare to vaccination regarding associated risks?
Why does vaccine protection sometimes decline over time?
What molecular signatures define the self/non-self distinction managed by the immune system?
What structures do innate immune cells possess to immediately spot molecular patterns conserved across broad classes of microbes?
What do Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs) recognize as molecular signals indicating an immediate microbial invasion?
On which types of cells are MHC Class I molecules primarily found?
What process is described by the elimination of developing T cells that bind too strongly to self-peptides presented on self-MHC molecules?
What criterion must a developing T cell meet during Positive Selection in the thymus to prove functionality?
Which primary lymphoid organ is responsible for the central education and tolerance training of T cells?
What peripheral tolerance mechanism renders a self-reactive T cell functionally unresponsive if it encounters its antigen without accompanying danger signals?
What term describes the condition resulting when the immune system fails to maintain self/non-self balance and attacks host cells?