Immune system biological enhancement agents

Activation of the immune system in response to an infection is a vital step in countering the threat posed by the causative agent. Nevertheless, activation of components of the immune system is invariably associated with the enhanced production or exposition of predictable markers, that could serve as targets for the delivery of a biological weapon to those sites. 

The term immunomodulators has been employed to define agents or approaches that will modify the relationship between tumour and host by modifying a host s biologic response to tumour cells, with an enhanced therapeutic benefit. The cascade of the cellular immune system is irutiated by the uptake and processing of antigen by the macrophage. 

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