Word: resister
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...must be aware that the targets are inherently unreliable. We must also bear in mind, as the Federal regulations make clear, that targets are not quotas and that reverse discrimination is not required and is actually unlawful. If the government begins to retreat from these principles, we will resist as strongly...
...Good, who combines painstaking laboratory work wiih gutsy speculations, or "probes," much in ihe manner of a medical Marshall McLuhan. On one occasion, while treating a patient whose inability to resist infection coincided with the growth of a massive thymic tumor, Good began to speculate about the link between the thymus and agammaglobulinemia, a disease caused by a deficiency or lack of the major antibodies. He?together with others in his laboratories?conducted a series of experiments in which he removed the thymus from newborn rabbits. The results of the test?all of the animals failed to develop normal immune...
...College of Medicine of the University of Florida have used transfer factor to treat effectively chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, a severe fungal infection of the skin and mucous membranes; others have used it successfully to treat agammaglobulinemia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a hereditary defect that leaves its victims unable to resist certain infections...
...figured out how to overcome completely the phenomenon of tissue rejection that plagues transplant surgery. Serum that inhibits the production and action of lymphocytes, the cells responsible for rejection, may cause severe reactions; immunosuppression, which is now the mainstay of transplant surgery, reduces the body's ability to resist both infection and some cancer...
...been positively determined, but it can be assumed that the human body contains an equivalent of the bursa.) B-cells are called the agents of humoral immunity because they synthesize antibodies that circulate freely in the blood. The antibodies, actually globular proteins, help the body resist disease-causing organisms. Both the B-cells and T-cells reside primarily in the body's lymphoid tissues, which are found under the arms, in the groin, behind the ear, in the abdominal cavity and other locations. From these tissues, the cells recirculate through the body and continually monitor for the presence...