If you haven’t been following my “beautiful immune system” lessons, I highly suggest you go back and read the first three lessons to catch up. These are short and simple lessons leading you through what will eventually be a great understanding of how the immune system works. I hope you enjoy! To the Beautiful Immune […]
Something that is foreign to your body and that induces an immune response or is the target of an immune response is called an antigen. Almost any foreign molecule (non-self), and sometimes molecules that are part of the body (self), can act as antigens to our immune systems. Some examples of non-self antigens include viruses, […]
When our bodies become sick with a virus, bacteria, fungi, parasite, etc., our adaptive immune system, the one that “remembers” microbes, not only fights off the microbe but creates protective immunity against it. Protective immunity is the body’s ability to resist a certain disease. The body’s source of protective immunity against microbes comes from the […]