Thymus is the central organ of cell immune system. The function of thymus is declined because of age-related involution.

胸腺是免疫系统的中枢控制器官，由于年龄相关的演化，其功能逐渐降低。

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In the new study on mice, researchers found that inhaling nanotubes affected the function of t cells, a type of white blood cell that organises the immune system to fight infections.

在对小鼠的这项新研究中，研究人员发现，吸入碳纳米管影响了T细胞的功能，T细胞是一种组织免疫系统抵抗感染的白血细胞。

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One drug specifically targets a mutated gene that tells a cancer cell to grow, the other boosts a patient's immune system in the fight against the disease.

一种治疗药物以突变的基因为靶点，该基因突变后能让肿瘤细胞持续增多。另一种药物能激活病患免疫系统对抗疾病。

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This is a way for the immune system to recognize things that are going wrong inside the cell protected from antibodies.

这是免疫系统识别,抗体不能识别的细胞内病变的方法

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It's the way, for example, that foreign molecules or antigens get presented to cells of your immune system in order to start the process of making an immune response, so sometimes a cell/cell interaction.

通过这种方式,外源分子,或者说抗原,进入到免疫系统的细胞中后,就会开启免疫反应过程,有时候就是细胞之间的相互作用

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But this antigen presenting cell is more likely a professional antigen presenting cell, or a subset of cells of your immune system that are specialized in ingesting foreign particles and displaying their contents to the rest of the immune system.

但这种抗原呈递细胞更加类似于,专职抗原呈递细胞,或者是体内免疫细胞中的一个亚群,专门从事吞噬异己物质,并告知免疫系统的其他细胞的工作

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Two specific types of immune system cell that attack invaders - CD4 T-cells and natural killer cells - increased in number with age, with a higher rate of increase in women than in men.

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And, by combining them harmoniously, you have the chance to really send powerful messages to your body, working on immune system, cell multiplication and differentation, metabolism, etc.

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For a T cell to become active, it must receive signals from another part of the immune system called an antigen-presenting cell.

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