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| Glossary
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| 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)
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| Makrophage |
Eating cell and important cell type of the immune system
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| RA |
Rheumatoid arthritis |
| SARS |
Severe Acute Respiratory-Distress Syndrome |
| Sepsis |
serious, life-threatening infection, colloquial "blood-poisoning"
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| 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 |
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