Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Immune System

The immune system is the integrated network of cells, tissues, organs, and soluble mediators that protects the body against pathogens, malignant cells, and other threats while maintaining tolerance to self. It comprises innate immunity, which provides rapid non-specific defence through barriers, phagocytes, compleme…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 44× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

The immune system is the integrated network of cells, tissues, organs, and soluble mediators that protects the body against pathogens, malignant cells, and other threats while maintaining tolerance to self. It comprises innate immunity, which provides rapid non-specific defence through barriers, phagocytes, complement, and pattern-recognition responses, and adaptive immunity, which generates antigen-specific responses mediated by T and B lymphocytes and immunological memory through antibodies such as immunoglobulins. Immune competence shapes susceptibility to infection, the course of inflammation, vaccine responses, and the surveillance of tumours, and it changes across the lifespan, with immunosenescence and frailty altering function in older adults. Research collected here reflects these themes, including the relationship between frailty and the immune system, the role of immunoglobulin responses in therapeutic development and in ageing, the use of interferon-gamma and other immunomodulators during the COVID-19 pandemic, and immunoassay and immunogenomic approaches for monitoring cancer and infectious disease. Additional contributions examine immune thrombocytopenia, dietary and lectin-based modulation of immune risk, and the immunological dimensions of chronic disease. Together these peer-reviewed studies span innate and adaptive defence, immunomonitoring, and the interaction between immune function, ageing, and disease.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2017

Frailty and the Immune System

Wilson DaisyCorresponding author
Institute of Ageing and Inflammation, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, B15 2GW
Exact topic Aging Research And Healthcare Cited by 19 doi:10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-17-1578
2020

The Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): A Narrative Review

Rezapour BarataliCorresponding author
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Assistant Professor, PhD in Health education and promotion, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
Exact topic International Journal of Coronaviruses Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2692-1537.ijcv-20-3373

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 44 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Immunology and Geriatrics.

Journal editorial board
Rahul Arya · United States Dhaarini Murugan · United States

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