INNATE IMMUNITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does innate immunity mean? 

• INNATE IMMUNITY (noun)
  The noun INNATE IMMUNITY has 1 sense:

1. immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup

  Familiarity information: INNATE IMMUNITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INNATE IMMUNITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

innate immunity; natural immunity

Hypernyms ("innate immunity" is a kind of...):

immunity; resistance ((medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "innate immunity"):

racial immunity (natural immunity shared by all members of a particular race)

 Context examples 

This protein is involved in both innate immunity and protein ubiquitination.

(E3 Ubiquitin/ISG15 Ligase TRIM25, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes beta-defensin 1 protein, plays a role in mediating host defense responses and in innate immunity.

(DEFB1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Through activation of TLR9, this ODN can directly stimulate B-lymphocytes, dendritic and natural killer (NK) cells, resulting in an increase in innate immunity and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC).

(CpG Oligodeoxynucleotide GNKG168, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammatory diseases affecting the whole body are caused by mutations in genes like OTULIN that are part of a person’s innate immunity (the cells and proteins present at birth that fight infections).

(Researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease, NIH)

This allele, which encodes Ig lambda-1 chain C regions, is involved in innate immunity.

(IGLC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

IL12 requires NOS2 to stimulate NK cell cytotoxicity and to activate STAT4 tyrosine-phosphorylation by TYK2 in innate immunity.

(Nitric Oxide Synthase 2B, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the mediation of GTP hydrolysis that is involved in the regulation of innate immunity.

(Immunity-Related GTPase Family M Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes probable ATP-dependent RNA helicase DDX58, is involved in the innate immunity against viruses.

(DDX58 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the innate immunity of humans to a non-pathogenic species of African trypanosomes.

(HPR Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Through activation of TLR9, a CpG ODN can directly stimulate B-lymphocytes, dendritic and NK cells, resulting in an increase in innate immunity and antibody-dependant cell cytotoxicity (ADCC).

(CpG-28 Oligodeoxynucleotide, NCI Thesaurus)