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Cancer
Pathogens
Nonspecific defenses
Specific Defenses
Allergies, Autoimmunity, and Immunodeficiency...oh my!
100
Cancer is an infectious or non-infectious disease
What is non-infectious?
100
Pathogens cause
What are infectious diseases?
100
One advantage of a fever is that it can slow down the
What is growth of pathogens?
100
Active immunity is produced by
What is your own body?
100
Asthma is your body
What is overreacting to an antigen or allergen?
200
In stage 4 cancer the cells have
What is spread through the body and started new tumors?
200
Microorganisms causing disease is explained by
What is germ theory?
200
Examples of the body's nonspecific defense fluids include
What are mucus, tears, and sweat?
200
When given a vaccine your body creates
What are plasma cells that can produce antibodies against the specific pathogen?
200
The typical symptoms of allergies (itchy, watery eyes or sneezing) are caused by
What are mast cells releasing histamines?
300
In stage 1 of cancer the cells have
What is broken through their fibrous membrane and begun affecting neighboring cells?
300
The steps of Koch's postulates aka germ theory are
What is the pathogen is isolated from a host, the pathogen is cultured, the purified pathogen is introduced into a second host, the second host gets the disease and a culture is taken showing identical pathogens?
300
The inflammatory response can cause
What are pain, fever, and swelling?
300
Humoral immunity is carried out by
What are B-cells and antibodies?
300
In asthma the particular antigens trigger
What are muscle contractions that make it difficult to breathe?
400
Stage 2 and 3 of cancer are frequently lumped together because they require what?
What is blood vessels?
400
Vectors are
What are disease carrying organisms like ticks, dogs, cats, or fleas.
400
The first and main nonspecific response is
What is the skin?
400
An immune response is triggered by
What are antigens and allergens?
400
An autoimmune disorder results when
What is the immune system fails to distinguish self from nonself and attacks the body's own cells?
500
Stage 0 cancer is considered "in situ" because
What is the cells are contained in a fibrous membrane and typically remain benign?
500
Antibiotics kill
What are bacteria and ONLY bacteria?
500
If the skin is cut or broken an infection can start from microorganisms where
Where is on the skin?
500
If your memory cells enable you to resist a disease you have this kind of immunity
What is passive?
500
The inflammatory response can cause
What is pain, swelling, and fever?