The Japanese word for Japan is æ¥æ¬, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, the Old Book of Tang.
Primary versus Secondary Immune Response The primary immune response occurs the first time that the immune system comes in contact with the antigen.
The immune response When a foreign substance enters the body for the first time, symptoms of disease may appear while the immune system is making antibodies to fight it. Subsequent attacks by the same antigen stimulate the immune memory to immediately produce large amounts of the antibody originally created.