- "Gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) is a component of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) which works in the immune system to protect the body from invasion in the gut."
This focuses on the study of the immune system cells and molecules in the digestive system, including the gut-associated lymphoid tissues and mucosal immunity.
Adaptive Immunology: The branch of immunology that deals with the specific responses of the immune system to invading pathogens.
Allergology: The study of allergies, the body's response to otherwise harmless substances.
Autoimmunity: The study of immune reactions against the body's own tissues.
Behavioural immunology: A field of immunology that explores the influence of behaviour on the immune system.
Clinical immunology: The study of various immunological diseases and their diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Comparative Immunology: Comparative study of immune systems in different species.
Developmental immunology: The study of the development of the immune system from its embryonic origins to adulthood.
Environmental Immunology: The study of how changes in the environment affect the immune system.
Host-pathogen interaction Immunology: The study of how pathogens interact with the host immune system.
Immunogenetics: The study of the genetic basis of the immune system and the immune response.
Immunohematology: The study of blood group systems and the role of antibodies in blood transfusion.
Immunological memory: The study of the ability of the immune system to remember pathogens it has encountered before.
Immunometabolism: The study of the interaction between the immune system and metabolism.
Immunopathology: The study of the pathology of the immune system, including the underlying mechanisms of immune-related diseases.
Innate Immunology: The study of the nonspecific responses of the immune system to invading pathogens.
Mucosal Immunology: The study of the immune system of the mucous membranes of the body.
Neuroimmunology: The study of the interactions between the immune system and the nervous system.
Reproductive immunology: The study of the immune system in relation to the reproductive system.
Systems immunology: The study of the immune system as a complex biological system.
Transplant Immunology: The study of the immune response to transplanted tissues or organs.
- "Owing to its physiological function in food absorption, the mucosal surface is thin and acts as a permeable barrier to the interior of the body."
- "Equally, its fragility and permeability creates vulnerability to infection and, in fact, the vast majority of the infectious agents invading the human body use this route."
- "The functional importance of GALT in the body's defense relies on its large population of plasma cells, which are antibody producers."
- "whose number exceeds the number of plasma cells in spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow combined."
- "GALT makes up about 70% of the immune system by weight."
- "Compromised GALT may significantly affect the strength of the immune system as a whole."
- "Gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) is a component of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT)."
- "the mucosal surface is thin and acts as a permeable barrier to the interior of the body."
- "the vast majority of the infectious agents invading the human body use this route."
- "works in the immune system to protect the body from invasion in the gut."
- "plasma cells, which are antibody producers."
- "whose number exceeds the number of plasma cells in spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow combined."
- "The functional importance of GALT in the body's defense relies on its large population of plasma cells."
- "its fragility and permeability creates vulnerability to infection."
- "compromised GALT may significantly affect the strength of the immune system as a whole."
- "GALT makes up about 70% of the immune system by weight."
- "the vast majority of the infectious agents invading the human body use this route."
- "Gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) is a component of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT)."
- "owing to its physiological function in food absorption, the mucosal surface is thin and acts as a permeable barrier to the interior of the body."