Immune system, illustration


Illustration of a woman’s immune system and the immune reactions that halt progess and eliminate micro-organisms that can invade the organism. A micro-organism (orange cell) present in the organism meets white corpuscles (beige cell) such as macrophages or dendritic cells. The latter can either phagocytose the micro-organisms or destroy them : this is the innate respone; or fragment them and present them to lymphocyte T cells (pink cell). In this way the lymphocyte TCD4 cells, due to the cytokines, will activate the lymphocyte B cells (green cell) which will produce antibodies to destroy the micro-organism. Other lymphocyte TCD8 cells are capable of attacking infected cells by the micro-organism (blue cell in the process of being destroyed) and destroy it.


Size: 6250px × 3969px
Location: Bas-Rhin
Photo credit: © JACOPIN / BSIP / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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