Organism Function
immunologic surveillance
Subclass of:
Cellular Immunity
Definitions related to immunologic surveillance:
  • (immune surveillance) Immune Surveillance refers to processes by which transformed or virally infected cells are eliminated by a normal immune response.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The theory that T-cells monitor cell surfaces and detect structural changes in the plasma membrane and/or surface antigens of virally or neoplastically transformed cells.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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