Innate System
This is the most important part of our external Innate Immune system
What is our skin?
Breastmilk contains these valuable parts of passive immunity that a baby needs
What are antibodies?
These are where most white blood cells hang out waiting for work
What are lymph nodes?
It is the number of T-helper cells per mm3 that determines if an HIV person has AIDS.(HINT:Normal levels are 1,000/mm3)
What is 200?
It is the suffix of most cancers
What is oma?
It is the enzyme found in tears and saliva that kills bacteria
What is lysozyme?
They are the compounds that initiate a fever
What are pyrogens?
It is the term for antibodies surrounding an antigen thus preventing it from attaching to a host cell
What is neutralization?
It is what is secreted by T helper cells to signal for help
What are cytokines?
It means the cancer has spread through fluids to other parts of the body
What is Metastasis or Metastatic?
They are the cells in the skin that initiate an inflammatory response in the Innate Immune System
What are Mast Cells?
It is the term for all white blood cells
What are Leukocytes?
It shrinks with age and is also where T cells mature
What is the Thymus gland?
It is the virus that invades CD4+ and CD8+ white blood cells causing immunodeficiency
What is the HIV virus?
They are known as the Breast Cancer genes
What are BRCA 1 and BRCA2?
This chemical compound causes vasodilation which causes redness and swelling
What is Histamine?
These are used for the medium to grow the traditional flu vaccine
What are chicken eggs?
It is caused by antibodies sticking antigens together in clumps so they can be easily destroyed
What is agglutination?
They inject toxic enzymes known as granzymes into infected cells and cancer cells
What are T killer cells and NK cells?
Cancer treatment that destroys hair follicles
What is chemotherapy?
These are the most numerous phagocytes of the Innate system
What are neutrophils??
These are the type of vaccines that use a short genetic code instead of the entire virus such as the new COVID vaccines
What are mRNA vaccines?
They are cells that produce antibodies
What are B Effector Cells (aka plasma cells)?
These are secreted by cytotoxic cells to cause holes in the membrane of antigens
What are perforins?
Mutations of the BRCA genes deactivate these cells that help with immunity
What are cancer-suppressing cells?