immune suppression
Weakened bodily defenses
Immune suppression is the reduction or blocking of the body's immune response.
It can occur deliberately through drugs given to transplant recipients to prevent organ rejection, or as a side effect of chemotherapy.
Diseases like HIV cause immune suppression by attacking immune cells directly.
The adjective is immunosuppressed: Immunosuppressed patients are vulnerable to infections that healthy people fight off easily.
- HIV/AIDSImmune-destroying viral disease
- viral loadPathogen count in body
- chemotherapyAnti-cancer drug treatment
- cancer treatmentMedical intervention for malignancy
- immunosuppressionReduced bodily defense activation
corticosteroids · immunodeficiency · lymphocytes · fungal infections · leukopenia · transplant rejection · organ transplantation · malnutrition · cyclosporine · chronic stress · T-cells · bone marrow transplant · stem cell transplant · monoclonal antibodies · cytokines · aging · opportunistic · autoimmune diseases
- immunityimmunity, antibodies, innate immunity, T cells, lymphocytes
- chemo side effectsnausea, vomiting, hair loss, fatigue, neuropathy
- radiation effectsradiation sickness, health effects, hair loss, nausea, vomiting
- aerospace medicinebioastronautics, microgravity, zero gravity, pressure suit, space suit
- Beekeeping Problemscolony collapse, starvation, CCD, swarming, parasites
- immune evasiontolerance induction
immune suppressionimmunostimulation
Enhancing defensive biological responses
immune response · autoimmunity · inflammation · cytokine storm · immunocompetence
immune suppressionimmunotherapy
Disease treatment via body's defenses
immune boosting · vaccination · immune support · CAR-T therapy