One set of innate immune mechanisms is humoral, such as complement activation.
"To understand such detailed immune mechanisms, we really need an improved experimental model of disease, and this we are currently working on."
It can be due to direct viral invasion or via immune mediated mechanisms.
The immune mechanisms help an organism identify a pathogen, and neutralize its threat.
Little is known about the immune mechanisms of tunicates or of Amphioxus.
Autophagy has been recognized as an immune mechanism.
An immune mechanism has also been proposed.
You could not stand the life and I'd never be sure that your immune mechanisms would build up properly.
Although the causes of these diseases are unknown, genetic, environmental, immune and other mechanisms have been proposed.
AS is a form of spondyloarthritis, a chronic, inflammatory arthritis where immune mechanisms are thought to have a key role.