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The immune system is a complex network of organs, nerves, cells, and proteins that protects the body from infection and harmful substances, directs growth and development, directs recovery from injury and exercise (training), and coordinates system-wide responses to the environment. Ultimately, the immune system has several different divisions that coordinate or oppose other aspects of the immune system. It recognizes and fights off invaders like bacteria, viruses, fungi, and abnormal cells like cancer cells. The immune system also keeps a record of most germs and some substances it has encountered so it can quickly mount a response to re-introduction. The immune system has two main parts:
Innate immune system: This is present at birth.
Adaptive immune system: This develops when the body is exposed to microbes or chemicals released by microbes.
This course is concerned with how well the immune system monitors, addresses, and returns to baseline function, how well the immune system balances between these two functions and tempered to create health in the human system.
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16701 NE 80th St, Suite 202, Redmond, WA, United States, Washington 98052
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