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marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" primitive: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking" inexperienced uninstructed: lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws" uninitiate: not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"; "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"
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| naive cell |
an undifferentiated immune system cell (eg, naive CD4 T-cell) that has not yet specialized to recognize a specific pathogen.
Ãâó: www.aegis.com/pubs/beta/1999/be990414.html
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| naive |
inexperienced; used to describe an individual who has never taken a given treatment (eg, antiretroviral-naive)
Ãâó: www.aegis.com/pubs/beta/1999/be990414.html
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| naive |
when referring to cells of the immune system, ones that have not been subjected to antigenic stimuli, and are therefore undifferentiated or immature.
Ãâó: www.qimr.edu.au/qimr_glossary.html
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| naive c. |
a lymphocyte that has not yet undergone activation (q.v.).
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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