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Example sentences for: immune
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I have known the term for most of my life, and its source was never a mystery to me; still, I must allow that, like others, I am not immune to succumbing to the trap of believing in the infallibility of a fact that is simply not so.
Although we suggest that anticapsular antibody is not primarily responsible for the age-specific decline in invasive pneumococcal disease, there is no question that the capsule is an important virulence factor that interacts with the innate and acquired immune system in a number of ways.
But the papers don't say how this capability is thought by the administration to avoid the perceived most problematic feature of the current law: that if an independent counsel is to be truly not controlled by the executive branch, he must be virtually immune from dismissal.
Altered intracellular redox balance with depletion of antioxidant reserves is associated with the activation of transcription factors like NF-κB, and genes (TNFα, IL-1β) associated with apoptosis, proliferation and inflammation [ 3 4 8 9 ] . Indeed, dietary antioxidants like resveratrol [ 20 ] , green tea [ 21 ] , cucumin [ 22 ] and cat's claw [ 23 24 ] have been shown to inhibit gene expression associated with inflammation and states of immune activation.
OPN is a secreted glycophosphoprotein expressed by a number of cell types, including leukocytes and epithelial lineages, and it has been implicated biologically in bone development, in immune system regulation [ 6 ] , and in multiple mechanisms through signal transduction via its binding to integrins [ 7 ] . OPN has been detected in primary breast tumors and is elevated in the plasma of patients with metastatic breast cancer [ 8 9 ] , but an association between elevated levels of primary tumor OPN and metastatic burden has not been well established.
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