Immune System
Protects you from what?
Disease and Infection
Requires immune cells to recognize ______.
Invaders as "nonself".
Adaptive Immunity is called..
Acquired Immunity
System made of up...
Fluid, vessels, and tissues.
Lymph nodes are mainly in what regions?_____
Neck, armpit, and groin regions.
Prevents what kind of cells from entering the body?
Foreign Cells
What makes invaders visible?
Antigens on invader's surface.
Adaptive Immunity comes later...activation may take..
A few days.
Lymphatic system impacts which two systems?
Circulatory & Immune System
Lymphatic vessels have what kind of walls?
Thin
System structured of what three things?
Cells, tissues, and organs.
Two types of defenses are ____& ______.
Innate & Adaptive.
Adaptive immunity provides what kind of response?
Specific- it remembers!
Fluid collected by lymphatic capillaries into lymphatic system?
Interstitial fluid
Lymph flows from capillaries to what?
Nodes
Identifies and _________ infected body cells?
Disposes
Innate immunity detects when?
First
Humoral & Cellular
Lymph nodes are responsible for what?
Filtering
Lymph includes WBCs, cellular waste and what?
Water
Chemical messengers are called?
Cytokines
Innate immunity examples are...?
skin, tears, saliva, sneezing, etc.
Leukocytes are called what?
White Blood Cells (WBC's)
Connective Tissues
Lymph is composed of what percentage of water?
90-95%