How to Use immune system in a Sentence

immune system

noun

• After the immune system has had a few chances to fight off the virus, symptoms become more cold-like for the rest of a person’s life.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• For example, some of the genes seem to have an impact on how the immune system reacts to various pathogens.
  — Daniela Mocker, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2022
• The rats used in these transplant studies are born with a faulty immune system, due to a genetic mutation.
  — Allison Whitten, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• The real problem occurs when the immune system keeps sending inflammatory cells throughout the body, even when there are no outside threats.
  — Maria Masters, Men's Health, 30 Sep. 2022
• Drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors effectively rip off cancer cells’ disguise and expose them for the immune system to see and attack.
  — Alice Park, Time, 6 Oct. 2022
• This transfer of genes between hominin species affects how the immune system of modern humans reacts to infections, such as the coronavirus.
  — David Keyton, Frank Jordans, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2022
• Flu vaccines contain either inactivated virus (meaning the virus is no longer infectious) or particles made to look like the virus to the immune system.
  — Abraham Gutman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
• Palleon is wrapping up an early clinical trial of a drug designed to make tumors more vulnerable to the immune system by unmasking their glycan disguise.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• But all three use adenoviruses as a means of introducing the virus to be protected against — Ebola Sudan — to the immune system.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
• The immune system recognizes and eliminates threats, whether from viruses and bacteria from outside the body or by cells behaving abnormally within the body.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• In general, a lymph node is a checkpoint along the route of your lymphatic system, a part of your immune system that’s responsible for catching and filtering out foreign substances that could cause harm.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 30 Oct. 2024
• Specifically, as the Mayo Clinic explains, MS occurs when your immune system attacks the myelin, which is the sheath that protects your nerve fibers.
  — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• All of this adds up to support the immune system in a big way.
  — Maria Goldbach, Vogue, 27 June 2024
• Your immune system, for most of us, takes a couple of days to clear the virus.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• Limiting the number of copies helps the immune system fight off the virus.
  — Ken Alltucker, The Courier-Journal, 10 Jan. 2024
• There are two main cell types in the adaptive immune system, T cells and B cells.
  — Mira Cheng, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• The reason has to do with how the immune system is trained against new viruses.
  — Alice Park, Time, 11 Jan. 2023
• The idea of boosting your immune system doesn’t make sense for lots of reasons.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
• It’s known to strengthen the immune system and ward off disease.
  — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• The idea is to get off of these drugs by kind of integrating the immune system of the donor in addition to the kidney.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• The new drug is thought to stop the immune system from attacking the insulin-making cells in the pancreas.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
• Infections like the common cold or flu cause the immune system to ramp up.
  — Kashif J. Piracha, Verywell Health, 11 Oct. 2024
• Vital for the immune system, taste, smell and wound healing.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• Turning them off leaves most of the immune system intact.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• Caregiving can take a toll on the immune system and one’s overall health.
  — Libby Richards, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2023
• In a fair fight, the immune system would wipe out cancer every time – but this crafty disease doesn’t play fair.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
• Your immune system still recognizes the car, but not the hubcaps.
  — Matthew Woodruff, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
• The parasite burrows into the skin of the swimmer and the immune system reacts, causing a rash.
  — Divya Murthy, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2023
• It is commonly found in capsules or tablets as a dietary supplement to help with overall health, like boosting your immune system and supporting good vision.
  — William Truswell, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024
• Guillain-Barré syndrome is a side effect that takes place when your immune system attacks healthy nerve cells, leading to muscle weakness and paralysis in some cases.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024