GLOSSARY
Immune System (Immune Response, Immunity)
A complex that protects the body from disease organisms and other foreign bodies. The system includes the humoral immune response and the cell-mediated response. The immune system also protects the body from invasion by making local barriers and inflammation. The process may involve acquired immunity (the ability to learn and remember a specific infectious agent), or innate immunity (the genetically programmed system of responses that attack, digest, remove, and initiate inflammation and tissue healing).
Nonessential Amino Acid (Non-essential Amino Acid)
An amino acid which the body can create its own supply of if the diet is lacking in sources of it.
Last updated: Oct 08, 2008
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