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Pathogens & Human Illness
Immune System
Immune Response
Immunity & Technology
Overreactions of The Immune System
100
Blood cells that find and kill pathogens that have gotten past the body's external barriers.
What is White Blood Cells
100
A nonspecific response that is characterized by swelling, redness, pain, itching, and increased warmth at the affected site.
What is Inflammation
100
Chemicals such as soap , vinegar, and rubbing alcohol that kill pathogens.
What is Antiseptics
100
An oversensitivity to a normally harmless antigen.
What is Allergy
200
Disease-causing agents.
What is Pathogens
200
Proteins made by B cells that destroy pathogens.
What is Antibodies
200
Protein markers on the surfaces of cells and viruses that help the immune system identify a foreign cell or virus.
What is Antigens
200
Occurs when bacteria mutate so that they are no longer affected by antibodies.
What is Antibiotic Resistance
200
Antigens that cause an allergic reaction.
What is Allergens
300

Anything that carries a pathogen and transmits it into healthy cells.

What is a carrier 

300
Prevents a person from getting sick from a pathogen.
What is Immunity
300
Determine whether your immune system will attack or ignore a transplanted tissue.
What is Antigen receptors on the white blood cell's surface
300
A substance that contains the antigen of a pathogen.
What is Vaccine
400
Disease that is caused by an abnormal protein that is found in some beef cattle.
What is Mad Cow Disease
400
The recipient's immune system makes antibodies against the protein markers on the donor's tissue.
What is Tissue Rejection
400
Causes your immune system to produce memory cells, but not get you sick.
What is Antigen
400
A condition that occurs when the immune system releases a large amount of histamine.
What is Anaphylaxis
500
Organisms that grow and feed on a host.
What is a Parasite
500
Your body's first line of defense.
What is Skin
500
Develop when mast cells or macrophages release chemicals that cause the hypothalamus to increase the body's temperature.
What is Fevers
500
Allergens that cause allergic responses when they are breathed in.
What is Airborne Allergens