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  2. Health effects of tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps due to the mechanism whereby the skin's immune system encapsulates pigment particles in fibrous tissue, tattoo inks have been described as "remarkably nonreactive histologically". [8] However, some allergic reactions have been medically documented. [9] [10] No estimate of the overall incidence of allergic reactions to tattoo pigments ...

  3. Opsonin - Wikipedia

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    All cell membranes have negative charges (zeta potential) which makes it difficult for two cells to come close together. When opsonins bind to their targets they boost the kinetics of phagocytosis by favoring interaction between the opsonin and cell surface receptors on immune cells. [6] This overrides the negative charges from cell membranes.

  4. Phagocytosis - Wikipedia

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    Phagocytosis is one main mechanisms of the innate immune defense. It is one of the first processes responding to infection, and is also one of the initiating branches of an adaptive immune response. Although most cells are capable of phagocytosis, some cell types perform it as part of their main function. These are called 'professional phagocytes.'

  5. List of immune cells - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of [[White blood cell|immune cell], also known as white blood cells, white cells, leukocytes, or leucocytes. They are cells involved in protecting the body against both infectious disease and foreign invaders .

  6. Immune system - Wikipedia

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    B cells are involved in the humoral immune response, whereas T cells are involved in cell-mediated immune response. Killer T cells only recognize antigens coupled to Class I MHC molecules, while helper T cells and regulatory T cells only recognize antigens coupled to Class II MHC molecules. These two mechanisms of antigen presentation reflect ...

  7. T helper cell - Wikipedia

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    Considering the diverse and important role helper T cells play in the immune system, it is not surprising that these cells often influence the immune response against disease. They also occasionally generate non-beneficial responses. Very rarely, the helper T cell response could lead to the death of the host. [citation needed]

  8. CD32 - Wikipedia

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    CD32A is an activating subtype of CD32 that can be found on a variety of immune cells - notably, CD32A is found on platelets, neutrophils, macrophages, and dendritic cells (DCs). On platelets, it is known to aid in the internalization of IgG- opsonized Escherichia coli , and it is more generally implicated in mediating bacterial-activated ...

  9. Immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] These immune cells include T cells, B cells, NK cells, dendritic cells, macrophages and mast cells. ITIMs have similar structures of S/I/V/LxYxxI/V/L, where x is any amino acid, Y is a tyrosine residue that can be phosphorylated, S is the amino acid serine , I is the amino acid isoleucine , and V is the amino acid valine . [ 3 ]