FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
IMMUNE SYSTEM
Excerpts from Bender, Arnold E. 1990. Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology. Butterworths, Boston.
Series of defense mechanism of the body. There are two major parts, humoral, mediated through antibodies (immunoglobulin's), and cell-mediated, phagocytic cells (B and T type lymphocytes).
http://ific.org/glossary/index.cfm Accessed March 2007. International Food Information Council.
The cells and tissues which are responsible for recognizing and attacking foreign microbes and substances in the body.
