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Defense Mechanisms and Why We Use Them
You may use defense mechanisms to help protect you from stress, but they can be both helpful and harmful. Recognizing defense ...
When confronted with an antibiotic, toxic substance, or other source of considerable stress, bacteria are able to activate a defense mechanism using cell-to-cell communication to 'warn' unaffected ...
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Bird flu 'resistant' to human body's defence system as scientists warn of 'pandemic threat'
Bird flu may be particularly severe in humans because the viruses have shown to be resistant to fever - one of our body's most important defence systems. The human body's temperature will climb in ...
A (light green) bacterial cell detects a source of stress and is activated (dark green). It adorns itself with alarmones (depicted as red triangles) and can transmit them via cell-to-cell contact with ...
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