Severe Combined Immune Deficient A genetic defect that renders a body without functional T cells or B cells SCID mice often are engrafted with human lymphocytes to study human immune responses such as alloimmunisation
Severe combined immunodeficiency disorder A type of immunodeficieny Back to Gene therapy article
severe combined immunodeficiency: a congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life
SCID in male children resulting from mutation of a gene that codes for a protein on the surface of T cells that allows them to develop a growth factor receptor