immunologic surveillance

im·mune sur·veil·lance

a theory that the immune system recognizes and destroys tumor cells that are constantly arising during the life of the individual.

Synonym(s): immunologic surveillance

immunologic surveillance

Etymology: L, immunis, free from; Gk, logos, science; Fr, surveiller, to watch over

the constant monitoring by the immune system of microorganisms, foreign tissue, and diseases caused by altered cells, especially cancer cells. Also called immune surveillance, immunosurveillance.

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However, immunologic surveillance, reporting, and diagnostic investigations in humans are lacking.

Florida Monkeys Are Excreting A Strain Of Herpes That Can Kill Humans

It regulates our body temperature and helps with immunologic surveillance (the constant patrolling of the immune system to seek out and destroy invading pathogens and host cells that become cancerous).

Your Skin and YOU: Factors that Affect Your Skin's Health and What You Can Do to Keep It at Its Best

Enhanced immunologic surveillance due to allergy could contribute to the control of leiomyomas growth.

Allergy and uterine leiomyomas: cooperative interaction with [ACP.sub.1] genetic polymorphism

From these results, reported in PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES in 1975, Rosenberg theorized that surface DNA helps a tumor cell avoid immunologic surveillance.

DNA's extended domain; sightings of cell-surface DNA turn scientific orthodoxy inside out