How to Use immune response in a Sentence

immune response

noun
  • The immune response takes a week or two after the shot to ramp up.
    — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Lymph nodes swell up when the body is having an immune response.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2021
  • This sets off a potent immune response that’s hard to stop.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Getting a booster shot to top up that immune response is a good idea.
    — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2021
  • That booster was shown to be safe and produced an immune response.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The idea was to find a dose that was lower but still could provide the same immune response.
    — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Do severe health problems come from an anemic immune response that lets the virus run wild?
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The virus spreads to new host cells as the body grapples with the overwhelming immune response.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Four days later, Gelsinger died due to an immune response to the vector.
    — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The hope here is that the virus will amplify the body’s immune response against cancer.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 May 2022
  • By comparison, all healthy adults who were part of the study showed an immune response.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2021
  • In turn, this could lead to a better immune response in infection.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Feb. 2021
  • As a result, people may be more exposed to the virus and may not mount a strong enough immune response.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Agarwood is the tree’s immune response to the infection, like how our skin forms a scab when we get cut.
    — Sable Yong, Allure, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Aluminum has been used in shots since the 1930s to boost immune response.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Chronic stress, on the other hand, can suppress the immune response.
    — USA Today, 23 May 2022
  • Bloom thinks none of the changes is likely to let the virus escape the immune response entirely.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The risk of an immune response is common to peptide drugs in general.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In other words, the nerve that detects itch sensed the bacteria even if there was no immune response.
    — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The changes more likely to survive are those more resistant to the immune response.
    — David Heath, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This was thought to be due to further stimulation of the immune response.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
  • No one knows how long protection will last, and there is still the risk of a variant evading our immune response.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • The error raised questions about whether the better immune response was down to the half dose or the time between shots.
    — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This type of vaccine prompts the body to make a protein that is part of the pathogen, triggering an immune response.
    — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
  • This is an immune response—your body sees the piercing as a foreign object and tries to expel it so the skin can heal.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Most vaccines are made in similar ways or rely on one of a few ways to trigger the immune response.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The researchers found that even the 217th shot boosted the man’s immune response.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Infection of cells with the virus also triggers an immune response.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Aluminum salts are added to vaccines to help boost the body’s immune response, allowing for a smaller dose to be used.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Kennedy then doubled down by questioning the use of aluminum, which is added to many vaccines to help boost the immune response.
    — Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025

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