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Investigative Techniques > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Immunologic Tests > Monitoring, Immunologic
Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Immunologic Tests > Monitoring, Immunologic
Investigative Techniques > Immunologic Techniques > Immunologic Tests > Monitoring, Immunologic
Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Monitoring, Physiologic > Monitoring, Immunologic

Preferred term

Monitoring, Immunologic  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Immune Monitoring
  • Immunological Monitoring
  • Immunologic Monitoring
  • Immunosurveillance
  • Monitoring, Immune
  • Monitoring, Immunological

Note

  • determ of immune status of patient in diag, and ther: do not confuse entry term IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE with IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE, a function of T-lymphocytes; IM GEN only; avoid indexing routinely every word "monitoring" as "monitoring": read MeSH definition

Scope note

  • Testing of immune status in the diagnosis and therapy of cancer, immunoproliferative and immunodeficiency disorders, and autoimmune abnormalities. Changes in immune parameters are of special significance before, during and following organ transplantation. Strategies include measurement of tumor antigen and other markers (often by RADIOIMMUNOASSAY), studies of cellular or humoral immunity in cancer etiology, IMMUNOTHERAPY trials, etc.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015166

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