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Glossary
BRM  Biological Response Modifier, medicine which changes the biological reaction of the organism to an illness or a pathogene
COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (chronic obstructive Bronchitis)
HIV Humane Immunodeficiency Virus
IL-1 Interleukin 1 (Zytokin)
Immunomodulator

Drug which changes the pathological reaction of the immune system to a pathogene (p. also BRM)

Makrophage

Eating cell and important cell type of the immune system

RA Rheumatoid arthritis
SARS Severe Acute Respiratory-Distress Syndrome
Sepsis

serious, life-threatening infection, colloquial "blood-poisoning"

TB Tuberculosis
TNF Tumor necrosis faktor (Zytokin)
Zytokin messenger substance which is spread by certain cells and controls the behavior of other cells in tissue