Specific Immunology

Question 1

Mast cells

Granulocytes

Answer 1

Specialized tissue cells similar to basophils in that they trigger local inflammatory reactions and are responsible for many allergic symptoms.
-Produce histamine

Question 2

Neutrophils
Polymorphonucleocytes (PMNs)
Granulocytes

Answer 2

Essential blood phagocytes; active engulfers and killers of bacteria.

Question 3

Basophils
Polymorphonucleocytes (PMNs)
Granulocytes

Answer 3

Function in inflammatory events and allergies.

-Produce histamine

Question 4

Eosinophils
Polymorphonucleocytes (PMNs)
Granulocytes

Answer 4

Active in worm and fungal infections, allergy, and inflammatory reactions.
-Produces cationic peptides and free oxygen radicals

Question 5

Monocytes

Agranulocytes

Answer 5

Blood phagocytes that rapidly leave the circulation; mature into macrophages and dendritic cells.

Question 6

Macrophages

(M) Agranulocytes

Answer 6

Largest phagocytes that ingest and kill foreign cells; strategic participants in certain specific immune reactions.

Question 7

Dendritic cells

(M) Agranulocytes

Answer 7

Relatives to macrophages that reside throughout the tissues and reticuloendothelial system; responsible for processing foreign matter and presenting it to lymphocytes.

Question 8

Lymphocytes

Agranulocytes

Answer 8

Primary cells involved in specific involved in specific immune reactions to foreign matter.

Question 9

T cells

(L) Agranulocytes

Answer 9

Perform a number of specific cellular immune responses such as assisting B cells and killing foreign cells (cell-mediated immunity).

Question 10

B cells

(L) Agranulocytes

Answer 10

Differentiate into plasma cells and form antibodies (humoral/antibody-mediated immunity).

Question 11

Natural Killer (NK) cells
(also called non-B, non-T lymphocyctes)

Answer 11

Related to T cells but displaying no antigen specificity, these cells are active against cancerous and virally infected cells.