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Reaction

A decline in prices following an advance. Opposite of rally.

Reaction

A decrease in price following an increase in price. A reaction connotes a slow decline; it is the opposite of a recovery.

reaction

A decline in security prices following a period of rising security prices.

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The ultimate goals are to create a simple blood test that could tell who is more likely to experience a protracted recovery -- right after surgery or maybe even before -- and to hunt treatments that might alter the immune reaction to help.

Surgery: Little way to know if healing's fast or slow

One of the researchers suggested that first solid foods might overstimulate the immune system, but it is unknown how that would affect the complex immune reaction that results in type 1 diabetes.

Diabetes risk traced to infant's first foods

Of the total 129 participating laboratories, 120 laboratories (93%) reported it as a systemic immune reaction (inflammation), whereas 6 laboratories (4.7%) found the presence of monoclonal proteins.

Systemic inflammation or monoclonal gammopathy?

Many experts believe the disease is the result of an abnormal immune reaction to a virus or bacterium.

Be ye hot or be ye cold!

Scientists suspect that TRALI, which occurs when people have an adverse immune reaction triggered by antibodies in donor blood, is caused by blood from people who have been exposed to a variety of blood groups.

Deadly blood transfusion problem is preventable. (Blood Bank)

Gene therapy appears to partially correct hemophilia in dogs while avoiding an immune reaction that can destroy the life-saving replacement clotting factor used to treat the disease.

Gene therapy partially corrects hemophila in dogs

And second, it disingenuously ignores the likelihood that such uses of cells from these sixty lines are likely to be clouded by the inevitable problem of immune reaction, a problem that has already cast a pall over the injection of novel genes or embryonic cells in medical practice.

Stem cells, therapeutic cloning, and the soul

Cocaine caused an immune reaction called the 'complement cascade' which destroys cells by building complexes of proteins on their membranes, making them burst.

Our health: Cocaine blamed for heart failure

All this makes the immune reaction that much stronger.

Why study genes?

Infection, specific foods or an immune reaction may also cause it.

HEALTH MEMO

When researchers treated both cell groups with a synthetic component mimicking a viral presence, the adult immune cells reacted by secreting substances involved in immune reaction against viruses (interferon-gamma) and killed cells infected with virus, while cells from newborns could not do this or were impaired in performing this function.