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complex adjective abstruse, bewildering, chaotic, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, difficult, elaborated, enigmatic, entangled, flexuous, impenetrable, implicated, inextricable, inscrutable, interlaced, interwoven, intricate, involuted, involved, irreducible, kaleidoscopic, knotted, labyrinthine, mingled, muddled, multiplex, obscure, perplexing, recondite, sinuous, snarled, tangled, tortuous, unarranged, unclassified, unfathomable, unorganized, varied
Associated concepts: complex issues to be tried

complex (Development), noun aggregate, association, collectivity, compages, composite, compound, conglomerate, conglomeration, group, network, organization, structure, system, totality, unity
Associated concepts: building complex, industrial complex, residential housing complex

complex (Entanglement), noun clutter, complexus, confusion, convolution, derangement, difficulty, disarray, disorder, disorganization, enmeshment, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, labyrinth, maze, muddle, multiplex, snag, snarl, tangle, twist

See also: abstruse, composite, compound, conglomerate, difficult, elaborate, inextricable, intricate, obscure, problematic, recondite, sinuous, sophisticated

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These class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins present the peptides to immune cells called helper T cells, which coordinate the body's response.

Gold-metal results: compounds block immune proteins by Cunningham, A. / Science News

The CD4+ T helper cells are primarily responsible for helping other immune cells through direct cell-cell interactions or by secreting cytokines after recognizing viral peptides bound to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules.

Cell-mediated protection in influenza infection by Doherty, Peter C. / Emerging Infectious Diseases

T and B Cells and Major Histocompatibility Complex II Expression

Toxicogenomics of subchronic hexachlorobenzene exposure in Brown ... by Vos, Joseph G. / Environmental Health Perspectives

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