Concept information
Preferred term
Adjuvants, Immunologic
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- Substances that augment, stimulate, activate, potentiate, or modulate the immune response at either the cellular or humoral level. The classical agents (Freund's adjuvant, BCG, Corynebacterium parvum, et al.) contain bacterial antigens. Some are endogenous (e.g., histamine, interferon, transfer factor, tuftsin, interleukin-1). Their mode of action is either non-specific, resulting in increased immune responsiveness to a wide variety of antigens, or antigen-specific, i.e., affecting a restricted type of immune response to a narrow group of antigens. The therapeutic efficacy of many biological response modifiers is related to their antigen-specific immunoadjuvanticity.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Adjuvant, Immunologic
- Adjuvants, Immunological
- Immunoactivators
- Immunoadjuvant
- Immunoadjuvants
- Immunologic Adjuvant
- Immunologic Adjuvants
- Immunological Adjuvant
- Immunopotentiator
- Immunopotentiators
- Immunostimulant
- Immunostimulants
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- administration & dosage (Qualifier)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- analysis (Qualifier)
- biosynthesis (Qualifier)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemical synthesis (Qualifier)
- chemistry (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- deficiency (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- isolation & purification (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- pharmacokinetics (Qualifier)
- pharmacology (Qualifier)
- physiology (Qualifier)
- poisoning (Qualifier)
- radiation effects (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- supply & distribution (Qualifier)
- therapeutic use (Qualifier)
- toxicity (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Adjuvant immunologique
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Immunoactivateurs
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Immunoadjuvants
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Immunopotentialisateurs
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Immunostimulants
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-Q3S6PSKC-B
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