• Question: what is humoral specific immune responce

    Asked by Dr Machani to Steph on 9 Mar 2015.
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      Stephanie Dyson answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      A humoral specific immune response is the response mediated by antibodies and other chemicals. The antibody response is particularly useful because they bind to pathogens to stop them being picked up by other cell types that would cause inflammation and cause the pathogens to die.

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