HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does humoral immune response mean? 

• HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE (noun)
  The noun HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE has 1 sense:

1. an immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells

  Familiarity information: HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("humoral immune response" is a kind of...):

immune reaction; immune response; immunologic response (a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen)

 Context examples 

Both APRIL and BAFF bind to both the BCMA and TACI receptors to activate the humoral immune response, stimulating B cell immunoglobulin production and proliferation.

(B-Cell Immune Response Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

LPS has been shown to stimulate the host humoral immune response and induce the release of various antitumor cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-12 (IL-12).

(Mixed Bacteria Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Deficiency of serum C3 and its major cleavage product, C3b, will decrease the effective humoral immune response to encapsulated bacteria.

(C3 Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Complement deficiencies decrease the effectiveness of the humoral immune response.

(Complement Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)