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What is Immunity

Handbook of Research on Ecosystem-Based Theoretical Models of Learning and Communication
Protection from microorganisms.
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The Ecosystem of Human Learning: The Neuroscience of Education
Adriana V. Braescu (Asociatia Re-Design, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7853-6.ch005
Abstract
Any form of life is a complex system made of one, few, or billions of cells. Each cell is a complex system as well: an organism in itself, performing thousands of biochemical reactions each second, as a consequence of all sorts of stimuli/information. Living beings are lifelong learners. As long as we arrive to internalize this information—about us as “galaxies” of systems of cells—we are allowed to be conscientious of ourselves and to process all the stimuli in an efficient manner. For a human being, learning should involve introspection and external complex system analysis as well. The main preoccupation, in learning, should be to study and analyze our own thoughts, emotions, and experiences, connecting the knowledge we acquired on the nervous and endocrine system in a complex relationship with all the other systems that allow us to exist—from nano (quantum physics) to macro (newtonian physics)—with us as a link in this huge net of morphogenesis, which can be mathematically described.
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Inherited, induced or acquired (by vaccine) resistance to infection by a specific pathogen.
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The legal status an entity experiences where it is not subject to a specific law or a type of law.
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Immunity is the body’s ability to protect itself from disease. Our immune system fights against germs and bacteria that can make us sick. When our body encounters a germ or bacteria, it produces special defenses called antibodies to fight it, which help destroy the germs and prevent us from getting sick. There are two types of immunity, active, which is generated by our own body, and passive which is the protection against disease through antibodies produced by another human or animal (like maternal antibodies).
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