Medical Definition of Immunological memory
1.
The systems responsible for the situation where reactions to a second or subsequent exposure to an antigen are more extensive than those seen on first exposure (but See immunological tolerance.
The memory is best explained by clonal expansion and persistence of such clones following the first exposure to antigen.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immunological Memory
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