Disease Resistance
"Disease Resistance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The capacity of an organism to defend itself against pathological processes or the agents of those processes. This most often involves innate immunity whereby the organism responds to pathogens in a generic way. The term disease resistance is used most frequently when referring to plants.
| Descriptor ID |
D060467
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.291.671 G12.450.564.250 G12.450.800.250 G15.602.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Disease Resistance- Disease Resistance
- Disease Resistances
- Resistances, Disease
- Resistance, Disease
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Disease Resistance" by people in Profiles.
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Majnik AV, Lane RH. The relationship between early-life environment, the epigenome and the microbiota. Epigenomics. 2015 Oct; 7(7):1173-84.