"Humoral" redirects here. Not to be confused with humeral.
Humoral immunity is the aspect of immunity that is mediated by macromolecules – including secreted antibodies, complement proteins, and certain antimicrobial peptides – located in extracellular fluids. Humoral immunity is named so because it involves substances found in the humors, or body fluids. It contrasts with cell-mediated immunity. Humoral immunity is also referred to as antibody-mediated immunity.
The study of the molecular and cellular components that form the immune system, including their function and interaction, is the central science of immunology. The immune system is divided into a more primitive innate immune system and an acquired or adaptive immune system of vertebrates, each of which contain both humoral and cellular immune elements.
Humoral immunity refers to antibody production and the coinciding processes that accompany it, including: Th2 activation and cytokine production, germinal center formation and isotype switching, and affinity maturation and memory cell generation. It also refers to the effector functions of antibodies, which include pathogen and toxin neutralization, classical complement activation, and opsonin promotion of phagocytosis and pathogen elimination.[1]
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19th century, through rapid developments in the study of humoralimmunity and cellular immunity. Particularly important was the work of Paul Ehrlich, who...
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function. The term humoralimmunity is often treated as synonymous with the antibody response, describing the function of the immune system that exists...
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infectious diseases owing to the reduced protection afforded by vaccines. Humoralimmune deficiency (including B cell deficiency or dysfunction), with signs...
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in the immune system of most vertebrates. Lymphocytes include T cells (for cell-mediated and cytotoxic adaptive immunity), B cells (for humoral, antibody-driven...
saw a battle between "cellular" and "humoral" theories of immunity. According to the cellular theory of immunity, represented in particular by Elie Metchnikoff...
of pneumonia in the late 19th century, and is the subject of many humoralimmunity studies.[citation needed] Streptococcus pneumoniae resides asymptomatically...
from cash flow received on a regular basis Passive immunity, the transfer of active humoralimmunity Passive experience, observation lacking recipricol...
susceptibility to infections, and more. The mucosal immune system consists of a cellular component, humoralimmunity, and defense mechanisms that prevent the invasion...
speed and lower cost of production, the induction of both cellular and humoralimmunity, and lack of interaction with the genomic DNA. While some messenger...
cyclophilin ligand (CAML). TACI was later found to play a crucial role in humoralimmunity by interacting with two members of the TNF family: B-cell activating...
spontaneous cellular and humoralimmune responses in patients with advanced stage tumours. The first reported simultaneous humoral and cellular response...
can also increase risk of certain diseases. Complement system HumoralimmunityImmune system Holers VM (29 January 2014). "Complement and its receptors:...
cell of the lymphocyte subtype. They function in the humoralimmunity component of the adaptive immune system. B cells produce antibody molecules which may...
agents of humoralimmunity. A larger number of lymphocytes in the lymph nodes, bone marrow, and skin means the body is increasing its humoralimmune response...
decreases the proliferation of T cells. Glucocorticoids also suppress the humoralimmunity, causing B cells to express smaller amounts of IL-2 and IL-2 receptors...
the Bcl-2 gene. Glucocorticoids also suppress the humoralimmunity, thereby causing a humoralimmune deficiency. Glucocorticoids cause B cells to express...
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