Receptors
Type of receptor that is found on all nucleated human cells and marks those cells as "self".
What is Class I MHC?
The site of T cell maturation.
What is the thymus?
The site of B cell maturation.
What is bone marrow?
When antibodies bind to viral surface receptors and prevent it from attaching to a host cell.
What is neutralization?
Type of immunity when a child is vaccinated against measles.
What is artificial active immunization?
Type of receptor that consists of two parallel polypeptide chains and has variable regions that contain antigen-binding sites?
What is a T-cell receptor?
The type of immunity carried out by T cells involving direct killing of infected cells.
What is cell-mediated immunity?
Type of immunity carried out by B cells involving antibodies.
What is humoral immunity?
When antibodies bind to a toxin before it causes cellular damage.
What is antitoxin?
Type of immunity when a mother is breastfeeding her baby.
Type of receptor exclusively found on macrophages, dendritic cells, and B cells.
What is Class II MHC?
The most prevalent type of T cell that activates other T and B cells.
What is a T Helper (CD4) cell?
Differentiated B cell that produces large quantities of a single type of antibody.
What are plasma cells?
Process when antibodies aggregate and cross-link cells/particles into clumps.
What is agluttination?
Type of immunity when a threshold level of the population is immune to a pathogen, making it less likely for a non-immunized person to encounter the pathogen.
What is herd immunity?
Type of receptor with two heavy chains and two light chains that serves as a cell surface receptor and as an antibody.
What is an immunoglobulin?
Proteins secreted by cytotoxic T cells that punch holes in target cell membranes.
What are perforins?
What is a memory B cell?
The process of antibodies coating a microbe or particle to make it more recognizable to a phagocyte.
What is opsonization?
Type of vaccine that contains a live organism with reduced or eliminated virulence.
What is a live attenuated vaccine?
Type of receptor that works with a T-cell receptor to provide cell adhesion and communication for a T helper cell.
What is CD4?
A cell related to T cells that secretes perforins and granzymes but lack specificity.
What are natural killer (NK) cells?
The type of antigenic exposure that results in a larger production of IgG antibodies that last for a longer period of time.
What is the secondary response?
Type of vaccine that includes a non-pathogen carrier that has been engineered to contain pathogen genetic material.
What is a recombinant vaccine?