Immune System - Adaptive
The two types of responses that the adaptive immune system includes.
What are cell-mediated and humoral responses?
The gland that releases melatonin, which controls our circadian rhythms.
What is the pineal gland?
These organs filter blood for waste and excess water.
What are the kidneys?
A type of tissue that joins bones to muscles that can be remembered as a fine man or a tenderheart.
What is a tendon?
The two divisions of the autonomic nervous system.
What are sympathetic and parasympathetic?
The qualification T cells and B cells must achieve before migrating to the spleen and lymph nodes.
What is immunocompetence?
The gland in the endocrine system that regulates homeostasis.
What is the hypothalamus?
This tube of the excretory system is longer in males than females.
What is the urethra?
A special type of movement that involves propulsion of the organism from one location to another.
What is locomotion?
The receiving end of the neuron.
What is the dendrite?
The type of T cell that activates B cells.
What is the Helper T cell?
The gland that controls most of the other glands in the endocrine system.
What is the pituitary gland?
This organ stores urine until urination.
What is the bladder?
The name of the process by which sarcomeres contract and relax.
What is the sliding filament model?
The lipid coating on white matter neurons that increase the speed of nerve transmission.
What is the myelin sheath?
A protein produced when a plasma B cell recognizes a pathogenic antigen.
What is an antibody?
The glands that control calcium levels in the body.
What are the thyroid and the parathyroid glands?
This substance, which is found in urine, is a byproduct of protein hydrolysis.
What is urea?
Two minerals that are stored in bone.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
The part of the brain responsible for processing balance and motor control.
What is the cerebellum?
The name of the faster immune response after the adaptive immune system is already exposed to a particular pathogen.
What is the secondary of memory immune response?
The three glands of the endocrine system that are double agents (i.e. they play important roles in other systems).
What are the pancreas, and ovaries/testes?
A common treatment for kidney failure.
What is dialysis?
The process of blood cell formation that takes place in the bone marrow.
What is hemopoiesis?
The name of the neural pathway that bypasses the brain.
What is a reflex or a reflex arc?