Phagocytes
List the types of phagocytes (Name three)
What are neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, mast cells, and dendritic cells?
Swelling or the build up of fluids
What is edema?
Number of plasma proteins in the complement system
What is 20?
Literal meaning of phagocytosis
What is "eating cell process"?
What is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit?
This phagocyte is responsible for processing foreign molecules and presenting them to the lymphocytes
What are the Macrophages?
The increase of flow in the blood vessels
Two other processes complement system plays a role in, in the second line of defense
What are phagocytosis and inflammation?
Bacterial endotoxin is found in gram-______ bacteria
What is gram-negative?
The initiation of fevers are caused by this, describe their function
What are pyrogens? What is reset the hypothalamic thermostat signalling and increase in temperature?
The death of this phagocyte results in the formation of puss
What are neutrophils?
List the steps of inflammation in order
What are chemotaxis, vasodilation, vessel permeability, diapedesis, and tissue repair?
Three ways two activate the complement system
What are antigen-antibody reaction (classical pathway), Bacterial endotoxin (alternative pathway), and the lectin pathway?
Phagocytosis can be interrupted via these defenses
What are capsules, waxes, and exotoxins (leukocidins)?
Name three benefits of a fever
What are stimulate activities of T-cells, increase effectiveness of interferons, in some cases enhance phagocytosis, inhibit multiplication of temperature sensitive microorganisms, impede nutrition of bacteria, increase metabolism, and stimulate immune reactions?
List the steps of phagocytosis in order
What are chemotaxis, ingestion, phagolysosome formation, destruction, and elimination?
Protein considered an early indicator of inflammation
C-reactive protein (CRP)
Primary defensive functions of the complement system
What are membrane attack complex (MAC), opsonization, and recruitment of inflammatory cells and triggering cytokine release?
Vasoactive mediator produced by mast cells and basophils
What is histamine?
Lipopolysaccharide is an example of what type of pyrogen (only two options)
What is an exogenous pyrogen?
Macrophages, dendritic cells, and B-cells are considered "professional" antigen presenters. Which class or classes do they belong to in the major histocompatibility complex
What is both class one and class two?
Step of inflammation responsible for migration of cells to a site of injury and its importance
What is chemotaxis and essential in intercommunication and deployment of cells for most immune reactions?
Final C3 convertase product of the lectin pathway
What is C4bC2a?
Inflammatory exudate build up in with these diseases have been known to cause nervous system impairment (Name one)
What is African trypanosomiasis or cryptococcosis?
Two potent pyrogens released by macrophages
What are interleukin-I and tumor necrosis factor?