cellular immunity

Scientific  

/ sĕl′yə-lər /

1. See cell-mediated immunity

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Example Sentences

The test, using an antigen called leishmanin, is similar to a skin test for tuberculosis -- a positive response means a person has been exposed to the parasite and has cellular immunity that prevents further clinical symptoms.

From Science Daily

Unfortunately, the status of a person’s cellular immunity is more difficult to capture and quantify.

From Los Angeles Times

There are tests that capture cellular immunity, but they’re very expensive to run.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s a way — the only scalable way we have now — to quantify cellular immunity,” said Ernesto Guccione, a Mount Sinai immunology researcher who helped design the test and has a patent pending.

From Los Angeles Times

That unseen mechanism was what scientists call cellular immunity, and its foot soldiers are T cells.

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