Chapter 34 Keywords

Question 1

The component of the immune system involving antibodies that are secreted by B cells and circulate as soluble proteins in blood plasma and lymph

Answer 1

humoral immunity

Question 2

Immunity resulting from a cell-mediated immune

response. Also called cell-mediated immunity

Answer 2

cellular immunity

Question 3

A glycoprotein made by plasma cells (mature B cells) in response to the introduction of an antigen

Answer 3

Antibody

Question 4

Any of the lymphocytes that mature in the bone marrow and, when stimulated by a particular antigen, differentiate into plasma cells

Answer 4

BCell

Question 5

The process by which an antigen selects the best-fitting B-cell receptor, activating that B cell, resulting in the synthesis of antibody and clonal expansion

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Clonal selection

Question 6

An area of the antigen molecule that stimulates the production of, and combines with, specific antibodies; also known as the antigenic determinant site

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Epitope

Question 7

Any of the lymphocytes that mature in the thymus and have the ability to recognize specific peptide antigens through the receptors on their cell surface

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Tcell

Question 8

An inactive lymphocyte clone derived from a sensitized B or T cell capable of an accentuated response to a subsequent antigen exposure

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Memory Cell

Question 9

Of or relating to an immune response by the body against one of its own cells or tissues

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Autoimmunity

Question 10

A mature, differentiated B lymphocyte that synthesizes and secretes antibody

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Plasma cells

Question 11

An antibody of a single type that is produced by a population of genetically identical plasma cells (a clone)

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monoclonal antibody

Question 12

A foreign (nonself) substance to which lymphocytes respond

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Antigen