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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Immunologically reactive to itself. Used of a cell or antibody.

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Examples

  • These self-reactive T cells stimulate other immune cells to produce autoantibodies that attach to the perfectly fine, healthy cells within our body—in any organ or tissue—and cause cells to die.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • These self-reactive T cells stimulate other immune cells to produce autoantibodies that attach to the perfectly fine, healthy cells within our body—in any organ or tissue—and cause cells to die.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • So far, early studies in MS populations are promising, indicating that Rituxan does lead to rapid depletion of self-reactive B cells.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • So far, early studies in MS populations are promising, indicating that Rituxan does lead to rapid depletion of self-reactive B cells.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • In other words, immune regulation in this theory is based on the reactivity of antibodies (and later lymphocytes) with their own repertoire to form a set of self-reactive, self-reflective, self-defining immune activities.

    The Impulse of Breathing 2009

  • Burnet's theory proposed that the animal, during prenatal development, exercised a purging function of self-reactive lymphocytes

    The Impulse of Breathing 2009

  • Some of these are self-reactive (like on Elventh Hour, but without the picking up metals from their substrate part) in that they spread over the glass surface and bond with it.

    Eleventh Hour: Nanofilms 2009

  • When the immune system is regarded as essentially self-reactive and interconnected, the

    The Impulse of Breathing 2009

  • The first T cells to be positively selected and activated in the thymus are self-reactive CD4 T cells that thus become “regulatory.”

    The Impulse of Breathing 2009

  • However, little is known about their role in autoimmune diabetes, a disease characterized by the reduction of insulin production subsequent to destruction of pancreatic β-cells by a polyclonal population of self-reactive T-cells.

    Elites TV 2010

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