What Does The Immune System Do

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Understanding the Immune System

Table of Contents Introduction Key Organs of the Immune System Key Cells of the Immune System HIV and the Immune System Introduction The immune system is made up of cells and organs that protect your body fromoutside invaders such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites (types ofgerms or pathogens) that can cause infection and disease. The immune systemalso gets rid of abnormal pre-cancerous cells and cancerous cells that...

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what is a immune system exactly?

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Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

This system represents many organs including the skin, GI tract, lymph nodes, spleen, and liver, among others, and various kinds of cells in the blood and contained in these organs that recognize, process and contain any foreign proteins, germs,... Read more »

Strong immune system and hiv

Does having a strong immune system make it harder to get hiv?...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi.Nope! For instance Magic Johnson and I had strong immune systems and we're now both virally enhanced. Dr. Bob... Read more »

Holes in immune system

Hi,I was wondering if you could talk more about the "holes in the immune system" which I have seen in a couple different places on this site. (including in Dr. Steve's account of Dr. Bob's death) I was wondering what that means...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hello Susan and thanks for posting.When we speak about "holes in the immune system", we are referring to gaps in the repertoire of the immune response. If you think of the universe of things that our immune system is supposed to react to... Read more »

Immune system

Can you get sick if you masturbate a lot like five times a day, or does it weakens your immune system in any way...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,The only potential problems with "burping the nephew" five times a day are:1.Chaffing your Mr. Happy2.Getting caught by your mother because you are spending so much time locked in the bathroom. As for weakening the immune system, no,... Read more »

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the method of exposing the immune system .....

Posted by Anonymous

8-14-97 The method of exposing the immune system to parts of HIV
in advanced evolved forms can be made more effective if the
immune system is prepard in advance for this treatment. People
with HIV infection receive some of this preparation but the... Read more »

Immune system & HIV detection

Posted by andypb, 1 Reply

What is compromised/ supressed immune system.

Does compromised/ weak immune system take more time to produce antibody to HIV infection.

Would a Person having as low Cd 4 counts 350 is considered to have compromised immune system.

Do such person with... Read more »

Suppressed immune system

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Hello,

I was just wondering what types of things suppress your immune system, which I know can delay your HIV test from coming up positive? Read more »

two immune systems?????

Posted by Anonymous

I think there are two immune systems. One that fights colds, flu's and stuff like that. The other fights OI's (opportunist Infections). So, that would explain why people with AIDS don't get colds and the flu.
The immune systems are described below... Read more »

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