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2
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The immune system must be absolutely _____ to not attack normal cells

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specific

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The immune system must be ____ to fight off evolving pathogens

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adaptive

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Two general types of defense

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Non-specific, and specific

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Describe non-specific

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innate, inherited mechanisms that protect the body from many pathogens

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Describe specific defenses

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adaptive mechs that protect against specific targets

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______ tissues are essential parts of the defense system

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Lymphoid tissues

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Blood is in a _____ circulatory system

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Close circulatory system (CCS)

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What three components are suspended in blood?

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Red, white blood cells and platelets

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What blood cells are in the closed circulatory system?

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Red, white, platelets

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What blood cells are found in the lymphatic system

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White blood cells and platelets

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What is lymph?

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fluids that accumulate outside the CCS in the lymphatic system

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The lymphatic system is a _____ system of _____ connecting ______

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branching, tiny capillaries, larger vessels

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Small capillary lymph ducts eventually lead to larger ducts that connects to

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a major vein near the heart

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Lymph nodes and what they contain

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small round lymph vessels, contain white blood cells

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16
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The lymphatic system can be related to a drainage system

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True

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17
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White blood cells are also called ___ and are important in ____

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leukocytes defense

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18
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All blood cells originate from

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stem cells

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19
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Stem cells are located in the

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bone marrow

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20
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What doe white blood cells look like?

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Clear, and have a nucleus and organelles

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21
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Which are bigger white or red blood cells?

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White

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22
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Red blood cells lose their ____ before becoming functional

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nuclei

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23
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Why do red blood cells lose their nuclei before functioning?

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nuclei = dead weight, room to carry oxygen

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Which blood cells can leave the CCS?

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white blood cells

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In response to invading pathogens, white blood cells can ______ to increase the attack with numbers

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poliferate

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26
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Two groups of white blood cells

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phagocytes and lymphocytes

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Phagocytes do what to pathogens?

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engulf and digest them

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28
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Lymphocytes are involved in _____ immunity

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Specific

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29
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Two types of lymphocyte cells

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B and T cells

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B-cells do what?

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circulate and collect in lymph nodes, make antibodies

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T-cells do what?

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migrate to the thymus, destroy infected cells

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32
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Non-specific system works against what type of pathogens

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ALL

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33
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The innate immune system is the _____ protection mechanism to stop pathogens

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general/basic

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34
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List innate defenses

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skin, bacteria/fungi on the surface of skin (aka normal flora), fluids with lysozyme, mucus/cilia, hydrochloric acid/proteases in the stomach, bile salts

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35
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Types of phagocytes

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neutrophils, monocytes, dendritic

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36
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Phagocytes engulf pathogens, that is called

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phagocytosis

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37
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Describe neutrophils

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most abundant type of white blood cells, attack pathogens and react fast

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38
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Describe monocytes

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phagocytes that mature into macrophages. Live longer and consume more pathogens. Can be mobile in lymphatic system

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39
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Describe dendritic cells

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highly folded plasma membranes to capture pathogens

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40
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Neutrophils can only execute a phagocytic event ____ times(s).

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ONCE

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41
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When a neutrophil attacks a pathogen it goes all out in one vigorous _____

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respiratory burst (aka oxidative burst)

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42
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In a respiratory burst, _____ is activated and produces 3 products that kills pathogens

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NADPH oxidasesuperoxide, hydrogen peroxide, hypochlorous acid (chlorine bleach)

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43
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What is used to deal with infection of tissue damage?

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Inflammation response

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44
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What happens in an inflammation response?

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Mast cells and basophils (white blood cells) release histamine, which triggers inflammation

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45
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What does histamine do?

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It triggers inflammation, makes capillaries leaky so plasma and phagocytes can come out

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46
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What in the wound attracts phagocytes

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complement proteins and other chemical signals

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47
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Which phagocytes arrive at the tissue damage first?

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Neutrophils then monocytes

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48
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Macrophages are responsible for what in tissue damage

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cleaning and healing

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49
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Macrophages produce what to call immune cells and signal fevers

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cytokines

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50
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What is pus?

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dead cells and leaked fluid

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51
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What alters the immune system of invasion?

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Toll-like receptors (TLRs)

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52
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TLRs recognize pathogens by their what?

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pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)

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53
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Interferons are

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a warning signal glycoprotein secretion by infected cells

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54
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Interfereons increase ______ of neighboring cells to infections by increasing the express of _______

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resistance; protein kinase R (PKR)

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55
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PKR is activated by

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viral RNA

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56
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PKR activation leads to ihibition of all _______

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protein synthesis

57
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Four characteristics of the adaptive immune system

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specificity, diversity, distinguish, memory

58
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Peptides/molecules recognized by T-cell receptors and antibodies

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antigens

59
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Antigenic determinants/epitopes are

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sites on antigens that the immune system recognizes

60
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The host creats _____ that are specific to the antigenic determinants

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T cells/antibodies

61
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Describe diversity

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the immune system can distinguish and respond to a crap load of antigenic determinants

62
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Describe distinguishment

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the ability to tell normal cells from pathogens

63
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Describe immunological memory

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The immune system remembers the pathogen it was once exposed to to respond more rapidly

64
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2 responses of the adaptive immune system

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humoral and cellualr

65
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the humoral and cellular responses have what in common?

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They share mechanisms

66
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Humoral immune response is based on

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B-cells

67
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B-cells produce specific ____ that recognize antigenic determinants by ____

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antibodies; 3D conformation

68
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Antibodies recognize pathogens in

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extracellular spaces (fluids-“humor”)

69
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Cellular response detects antigens where?

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Inside body cells

70
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Cellular response destroys what cells

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virus-infected/mutated cells

71
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Cellular response is mainly made of

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T-cells

72
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T-cells have _____ receptors that recognize and bind specific antigenic determinants

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T-cell receptors

73
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Clonal selection

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How the body chooses whether to use B or T cells

74
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An activated lymphocyte (B/T cell) produces what 2 type of daughter cells?

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Effector and memory cells

75
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Effector B cells are also called ___ and produce ____

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plasma cells, produce anitbodies

76
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Effector of T cells release ____

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cytokines

77
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Describe memory cells

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live longer and retain the ability to divide quickly to produce more effector and more memory cells

78
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When the body encounters an antigen for the first time it tirggers

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A primary immune response

79
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When the body runs into an antigen again

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a secondary immune response occurs

80
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Which is faster, primary or secondary immune response?

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Secondary

81
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Vaccination and immunization shots do what?

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create artificial immunity - injects the pathogen or just antigenic protein to tigger primary response without making the person sick

82
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3 ways to vaccinate without actually making us sick

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Attenuation, biotechnology, DNA vaccines

83
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Ateentuation

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reducing the toxicity of antigenic molecule

84
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Biotechnology

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makes recombinant antigenic fragments

85
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DNA Vaccines

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Introduce a gene encoding an antigen into the body

86
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Poliomyelitis

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spreads via fecal-oral route, primarily affects children, infections are asymptomatic

87
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Salk vaccine

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the first polio vaccine, injected in the skin

88
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Oral Poli vaccine (OPV)

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a live-attenuated vaccine, longer immunity, and singles out a mutation of virus’ ribosome

89
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Failure for the body to tolerate it’s own molecules leads to

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autoimmune disease

90
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Self-tolerance of the body is based on

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clonal deletion

91
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If clonal deletion fails ______ B and T cells that attack the body’s own cells are made

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bad B T cells

92
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examples of autoimmune disease

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Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, MS

93
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Deletion of B cells happen in the

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bone marrow

94
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Deletion of T cells happen in the

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Thymus

95
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Elimination of B and T cells is by means of ___

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apoptosis

96
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____ cells are the basic component of the humoral immune system

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B cells

97
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For a B cell to differentiate into a plasma cell it must bind an _____

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antigenic determinant

98
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Cellular division and differentiation of the B cell is stimulated by a signal from a _____

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helper T cell (Th Cell)

99
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Activated B cells become

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plasma cells and memory cells

100
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Antibody molecules are proteins call

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immunoglobulins

101
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2 identical ____ chains and two _____ chains make up the tetrameric units

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light- heavy chains

102
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_____ hold the chains together

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disulfide bonds

103
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Both light and heavy chains have ______ and ____ regions

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variable and constant

104
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Constant regions are similar among the ____ and determine the ___

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immunoglobulins and determine the class of the anibody

105
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Variable regions differ in _____ sequences and are responsible for the ____ of antibody specificity

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amino acid; diversity

106
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light/heavy chains in variable regions align to form the

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binding sites

107
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Each tetramer has ___ identical antigen-binding sites making the antibody ____

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2 ; bivalent

108
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Antibody classes

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IgG MonomerIgM PentamerIgD MonomerIgA DimerIgE MonomerIg - GAMED

109
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Genes that code for T-cell receptors are similar to those for ___

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immunoglobulins

110
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T-cell receptors also have both ____ and ___ regions

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constant and variable regions

111
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The major difference between antibodies and T cell receptors

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T-cell receptors bind ONLY to an antigenic determinant that is displayed on the surface

112
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Activated T cells create what 2 types of effector cells?

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Cytotoxic cells and Helper T cells

113
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Cytotoxic cells kill virus cells by

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causing them to lyse

114
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Helper T cells do what?

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assis in both cellular and humoral immune systems

115
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Activated helper T cells do what for B cells and cytotoxic cells?

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Proliferate and stimulate them to divide

116
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Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is what?

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A gene that makes plasma membrane glycoprotiens

117
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MHC proteins display what?

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Antigens

118
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3 classes of MHC proteins but we only talk about which two?

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MHC I and II

119
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MHC I proteins are present where?

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on the surface of every nucleated cell

120
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When cellular proteins are degraded in the _____ , what does the MHC I do?

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proteasome; MHC I brings it out to the plasma membrane to dispose of it

121
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How do Cytotoxic T cells and MHC I work together?

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Degraded protein fragments from the proteosome are brought out to the plasma membrane surface by MHC I where T(c) cells check them, If the T(c) cell binds to the MHC I, it is activated to remove the fragment

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If its in the EFFECTOR phase, the T(c) cell secretes molecules that ___

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kill the cell

123
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Fas

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When T(c) cells bind to a specific target cell receptor

124
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The binding of Fas inititates

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apoptosis

125
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The T(c) cells help rid the body of _____ and ____

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virus infected cells and tumors

126
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Describe MHC II proteins

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found mostly on surface of B cells, macrophages and other “pro” antigen-presenting cells

127
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MHC II fishes out bad fragments when the aintgen is _____ by B cells

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Phagocytosed

128
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Antibody production (humoral response) needs what components

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T(H) cells B cell

129
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What goes first activation phase of effector phase?

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Activaton

130
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T(h) cell with a specific ____ receptor can bind to an antigen from an antigen presenting ___

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T-cell; macrophage

131
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T-helper cells activate when it binds to and ____ from a macrophage and then produce a _____ population of identical T-helper cells

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Antigen, clonal

132
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In the effector stage, an antigen of the same sort must also be recognized by a specific ____ receptor on the surface of a ____ cell

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IgM ; B cell

133
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B cell ingests and degrades the antigen and passes it to a _____ protein on its cell surface

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MHC II

134
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In the effector stage one of the ___ cells created int he activation stage recognizes the antigen on the surface of the B cell

A

T-helper

135
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The t-helper cell then release _____ which activate B cell replication and differentiation into plasma cells and memory cells

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Cytokines

136
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What secretes antibodies?

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Plasma Cells

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