Pathogens & Human Illness
States that microscopic particles cause certain diseases.
What is Germ Theory
Blood cells that find and kill pathogens that have gotten past the body's external barriers.
What is White Blood Cells
A nonspecific response that is characterized by swelling, redness, pain, itching, and increased warmth at the affected site.
What is Inflammation
Chemicals such as soap , vinegar, and rubbing alcohol that kill pathogens.
What is Antiseptics
An organism, a virus or a protein that causes disease
What is a pathogen?
Disease-causing agents.
What is Pathogens
Proteins made by B cells that destroy pathogens.
What is Antibodies
Protein markers on the surfaces of cells and viruses that help the immune system identify a foreign cell or virus.
What is Antigens
Occurs when bacteria mutate so that they are no longer affected by antibodies.
What is Antibiotic Resistance
Skin, hair, nails, mucous
What are some of your body's external defense systems?
Anything that carries a pathogen and transmits it into healthy cells.
What is a Vector
Prevents a person from getting sick from a pathogen.
What is Immunity
Determine whether your immune system will attack or ignore a transplanted tissue.
What is Antigen receptors on the white blood cell's surface
A substance that contains the antigen of a pathogen.
What is Vaccine
Inflammation, platelets, fever
What are some of the internal defense systems?
Disease that is caused by an abnormal protein that is found in some beef cattle.
What is Mad Cow Disease
The three types of proteins used to fight off invading pathogens.
What is Complement proteins, Antibodies, and Interferons
The recipient's immune system makes antibodies against the protein markers on the donor's tissue.
What is Tissue Rejection
Causes your immune system to produce memory cells, but not get you sick.
What is Antigen
It is made up of white blood cells that recognize and attack foreign substances in the body.
What is the immune system?
Organisms that grow and feed on a host.
What is a Parasite
Your body's first line of defense.
What is Skin
Develop when mast cells or macrophages release chemicals that cause the hypothalamus to increase the body's temperature.
What is Fevers
Use only the parts of the pathogen that contain the antigen.
What is Component Vaccines
Macrophage, T cells, B cells and antibodies.
What are some of the white blood cells that protect the body?