Assertion: vaccine's adjuvant | /r/HasProperty | substance
Facets:
value: in immunology
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In immunology, an adjuvant is a substance that potentiates and/or modulates the immune responses to an antigen to improve them.
text: An adjuvant (from Latin adiuvare – to help) is any substance, distinct from antigen, which enhances immune response by various mechanisms: recruiting of professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs) to the site of antigen exposure; increasing the delivery of antigens by delayed/slow release (depot generation); immunomodulation by cytokine production (selection of Th1 or Th2 response); inducing T-cell response (prolonged exposure of peptide-MHC complexes [signal 1] and stimulation of expression of T-cell-activating co-stimulators [signal 2] on the APCs' surface) and targeting (e. g. carbohydrate adjuvants which target lectin receptors on APCs).
text: An adjuvant is a substance added to some vaccines to enhance the immune response of vaccinated individuals.
text: Adjuvants, which are in some vaccines, are substances that help your immune system respond more strongly to a vaccine.
text: Most cancer vaccines also contain adjuvants, which are substances that may help strengthen the immune response.
text: Adjuvants are substances added to vaccines that allow them to work better by enhancing the immune response to the vaccine, decreasing the quantity of vaccine needed to gain protective immunity, or lowering the number of doses required.