What is Immunology?
The so-called "immunity" is derived from the Latin word "immunis". Its original meaning is "exception from charges", and it also means "freedom from epidemics". Immunology is the bio-medical science of postgraduate objects' immune response to antigenic substances and methods. Immune response is the body's response to antigenic stimulation, and it is also a biological process of identifying and excluding antigenic substances.
Immunology
(Subject)
- Chinese name
- Immunology
- Foreign name
- immunology
- Subject nature
- Science and Engineering
- Research main content
- Human body's resistance to the external environment
- The so-called "immunity" is derived from the Latin word "immunis". Its original meaning is "exception from charges", and it also means "freedom from epidemics". Immunology is the bio-medical science of postgraduate objects' immune response to antigenic substances and methods. Immune response is the body's response to antigenic stimulation, and it is also a biological process of identifying and excluding antigenic substances.
- Immunological detection methods can be divided into humoral immunity and cellular immunoassay.
- In essence, modern immunology is just a branch of biomedicine. However, with the development of science and technology, it has derived many independent branch disciplines, such as molecular immunology, immunobiology and immunogenetics, which are closely related to modern biology, and immune blood, which is closely related to medicine. Science, immunopharmacology, immunopathology, reproductive immunology, transplant immunology, tumor immunology, anti-infective immunology, clinical immunology, etc.
- In the early 21st century, our research on immunology has reached the level of cells and molecules, and people are working hard to explore the basic physiological law of organisms-the mechanism of self-stabilization of immunity. Many important issues in medicine, such as autoimmunity, hypersensitivity, tumor immunity, transplant immunity, immune inheritance, etc., will certainly be better solved.