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Adaptive Immunity

"Adaptive Immunity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Protection from an infectious disease agent that is mediated by B- and T- LYMPHOCYTES following exposure to specific antigen, and characterized by IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY. It can result from either previous infection with that agent or vaccination (IMMUNITY, ACTIVE), or transfer of antibody or lymphocytes from an immune donor (IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Adaptive Immunity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Adaptive Immunity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2013
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