Innate Defenses
Adaptive Defenses
Lymphatic System
Immune System
Types of Cells
100
What is the first barrier of protection?
Skin
100
What is the adaptive immune system?
The body's built-in specific immune system.
100
What is lymph?
The fluid in the lymph vessels.
100
What happens when the body triggers the humoral immune response?
The body creates antibodies specific for the antigen.
100
What is a B cell?
A lymphocyte that matures in the bone marrow.
200
What's a type of defense found in your esophagus?
Mucus or cilia
200
What is an antigen?
Substance that stimulates the adaptive immune system.
200
What is the purpose of the lymphatic system?
To take extra fluid and redisperse it through the body and check it for diseases.
200
Active humoral immunity can be gained through what medical practice?
Vaccination
200
What is a plasma cell?
Antibody-producing MACHINE
300
What use does Keratin provide?
Protection against alkalis, acids, and bacterial enzymes.
300
What is humoral immunity?
The body's specific, systemic, and adaptive response to a disease.
300
What is the purpose of lymphoid tissue?
To house lymphocytes and provide a site where they can multiply, as well as furnish an ideal surveillance vantage point for lymphocytes and macrophages.
300
What is immunological memory?
The body's ability to quickly dispatch a foreign but old threat.
300
What are the three types of T cells?
Helper, cytotoxic, and regulatory
400
What is a Phagocyte?
A neutrophil that kills foreign cells.
400
What are the 5 stages of development for a Lymphocyte?
The origin, maturation and immunocompetence and self-tolerance, Seeding secondary lymphoid organs and circulation, antigen encounter and activation, and proliferation and differentiation.
400
What are Peyer's Patches?
They are aggregated lymphoid nodules that are in large clusters in the intestines.
400
Name one disease that makes your immune system not work
AIDS
400
What is a memory cell?
A descendant of an activated B cell which is generated during an immune response?
500
Prevent spread of disease, disposes of cell debris and pathogens, alerts adaptive immune system, and sets the stage for repair.
500
What is self-tolerance?
The ability for a lymphocyte to not attack one of its own antigens.
500
Why do you need your appendix?
You don't
500
What is immunodeficiency?
An acquired condition that impairs function of immune cells or certain molecules such as antibodies.
500
What is an antigen-presenting cell?
A cell that engulfs the cells and digests them, then presents their corpse for all to see with no remorse.