Acquired immunity Sample Clauses

Acquired immunity. The acquired immune response is highly specific for a particular pathogen improving with successive encounters via memory. T and B cells are involved in the acquired immunity. B cells are involved in the humoral immune response and T cells are involved in the cell mediated immune response. T cells recognize antigens in the complex of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), presented on the cell surface. When T cells are activated they replicate and these cells can develop in to memory cells. Memory T cells have developed the skills to recognize antigens since they have previously encountered and responded to an antigen in a prior infection. If the pathogen is recognized again throughout life time, this will elicit a faster and a stronger immune response. The differences between the two immune responses are obvious. The innate immune response is initiated almost immediately after infection, whereas adaptive immunity takes longer to develop. Innate immunity uses generalized and invariant mechanisms to recognize pathogens. Innate immunity is often unable to eradicate the pathogens completely, and it does not provide a stronger immunity to re-infection. In contrast, the adaptive immune response involves specific recognition by highly specific receptors on lymphocytes. This response is powerful enough to eradicate the infection and provides immunological memory. However, both immune responses work together and are able to protect an individual from harmful pathogenic infections. If an individual’s immune response does not work properly, this may lead to serious complications. For example immunodeficient patients, who are not able to eradicate an infection are at a higher risk to die upon an infection. On the other hand autoimmune diseases like, diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis, are the result of an immune system which does not work appropriately.
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Acquired immunity. Drug treatment health care assessment date The date that the initial healthcare assessment was completed in accordance to defined local protocols. Discharge Date The date that the client was discharged ending the current treatment episode.
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  • Acquired Rights The Participant acknowledges and agrees that: (a) the Company may terminate or amend the Plan at any time; (b) the award of the Option made under this Agreement is completely independent of any other award or grant and is made at the sole discretion of the Company; (c) no past grants or awards (including, without limitation, the Option awarded hereunder) give the Participant any right to any grants or awards in the future whatsoever; and (d) any benefits granted under this Agreement are not part of the Participant’s ordinary salary, and shall not be considered as part of such salary in the event of severance, redundancy or resignation.

  • No Immunity The Borrower is not, nor is any of its assets entitled to immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from any legal action or proceeding (which shall include, without limitation, suit, attachment prior to judgement, execution or other enforcement).

  • General Immunity Neither the Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable to the Borrower, the Lenders or any Lender for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them hereunder or under any other Loan Document or in connection herewith or therewith except to the extent such action or inaction is determined in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have arisen from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Person.

  • Immunity Vendor agrees that nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as a waiver of sovereign or government immunity; nor constitute or be construed as a waiver of any of the privileges, rights, defenses, remedies, or immunities available to Region 8 Education Service Center or its TIPS Department. The failure to enforce, or any delay in the enforcement of, any privileges, rights, defenses, remedies, or immunities available to Region 8 Education Service Center or its TIPS Department under this Agreement or under applicable law shall not constitute a waiver of such privileges, rights, defenses, remedies, or immunities or be considered as a basis for estoppel.

  • Sovereign Immunity The State reserves all immunities, defenses, rights or actions arising out of the State’s sovereign status or under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. No waiver of the State’s immunities, defenses, rights or actions shall be implied or otherwise deemed to exist by reason of the State’s entry into this Agreement.

  • Waiver of Immunity To the extent that the Company may be entitled in any jurisdiction in which judicial proceedings may at any time be commenced hereunder, to claim for itself or its revenues or assets any immunity, including sovereign immunity, from suit, jurisdiction, attachment in aid of execution of a judgment or prior to a judgment, execution of a judgment or any other legal process with respect to its obligations hereunder and to the extent that in any such jurisdiction there may be attributed to the Company such an immunity (whether or not claimed), the Company hereby irrevocably agrees not to claim and irrevocably waives such immunity to the maximum extent permitted by law.

  • Governmental Immunity Liability for claims for injuries to persons or property arising from the negligence of the State, its departments, boards, commissions committees, bureaus, offices, employees and officials shall be controlled and limited by the provisions of the Colorado Governmental Immunity Act, §00-00-000, et seq., C.R.S.; the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. Pt. VI, Ch. 171 and 28 U.S.C. 1346(b), and the State’s risk management statutes, §§24-30-1501, et seq. C.R.

  • CONTRIBUTOR’S STATUS Contributor is a corporation (or other form of artificial legal entity or juristic person) and is therefore a Constituent (defined in the Policy) and will be represented in OpenID by Representatives (defined in the Policy). Contributor’s initial Representatives are identified in Table 1 above, and in Exhibit 1 (if attached), and Contributor may change its Representatives from time to time on written notice to OIDF. Each Representative will also be required to click through the OIDF Online Contribution Agreement on its own behalf. Contributor will, as soon as commercially practicable (and in any case before the next Work Group meeting attended by any of its Representatives), notify OIDF in writing of any change of status of its Representatives.

  • Additional Action 10.1 Each Party to this Agreement shall execute and deliver such other documents and do such other acts and things as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to give effect to the provisions of this Agreement.

  • Waiver of Sovereign Immunity Each Loan Party that is incorporated outside the United States, in respect of itself, its Subsidiaries, its process agents, and its properties and revenues, hereby irrevocably agrees that, to the extent that such Loan Party or its respective Subsidiaries or any of its or its respective Subsidiaries’ properties has or may hereafter acquire any right of immunity, whether characterized as sovereign immunity or otherwise, from any legal proceedings, whether in the United States or elsewhere, to enforce or collect upon the Loans or any Loan Document or any other liability or obligation of such Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries related to or arising from the transactions contemplated by any of the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, immunity from suit, immunity from service of process, immunity from jurisdiction or judgment of any court or tribunal, immunity from execution of a judgment, and immunity of any of its property from attachment prior to any entry of judgment, or from attachment in aid of execution upon a judgment, such Loan Party, for itself and on behalf of its Subsidiaries, hereby expressly waives, to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, any such immunity, and agrees not to assert any such right or claim in any such proceeding, whether in the United States or elsewhere. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Loan Party further agrees that the waivers set forth in this Section 10.25 shall have the fullest extent permitted under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 of the United States and are intended to be irrevocable for purposes of such Act.

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