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Immune Response
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This organ is where T-cells grow and develop.
What is the Thymus?
100
Swelling caused by fluid collecting in tissue.
What is Edema?
100
Damage to tissue by the entering of foreign particles triggers this nonspecific response.
What is inflammation?
100
The "garbage men" of the cell world, these engulf pathogens and dead cells and wear pieces of them on their membrane.
What is a macrophage?
100
These proteins bind to antigens.
What are antibodies?
200
This organ is your body's first line of defense.
What is the skin?
200
Produced during a bacterial infection, this unsightly substance is made up of dead and dying neutrophils.
What is pus?
200
You received this kind of immunity from your mother's antibodies while in the womb.
What is passive immunity?
200
After antibodies bind to a foreign or infected cell, this type of T-cell comes to destroy it.
What is a Cytotoxic T-cell?
200
Antigen-presenting cells and Lymphocytes are two categories of this kind of cell.
What are White Blood Cells?
300
Blood-producing tissue where B-cells grow and develop
What is the bone marrow?
300
Programmed Cell Death
What is Apoptosis?
300
Process used by neutrophils to destroy whatever they ingest.
What is Oxidative Burst?
300
These cells destroy other cells by extending a "bridge" that punches holes in the other cells membrane.
What is a Natural Killer cell?
300
Considered to be the "Father of Immunology," he developed the vaccine for smallpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
400
The variable part of an antibody, this is where it binds a foreign particle.
What is the antigen-binding site?
400
This occurs when your immune responds to a usually harmless antigen.
What is an allergic response?
400
Without these cells, your immune response wouldn't turn off.
What are suppressor t-cells?
400
Unable to move, these cells can initiate an allergic response.
What are Mast cells?
400
Named after the virus that caused smallpox, this technique was developed in ancient China.
What is Variolation?
500
This organ removes damaged red blood cells and infectious agents to alert the immune system.
What is the spleen?
500
Proteins circulating in the blood which target infected cells and carry out a sequence of steps leading to lysis of those cells.
What is Complement?
500
This response stimulates phagocytosis and slows bacterial growth.
What is a fever?
500
B-cells differentiate into these cells to secrete antibodies into the blood.
What are plasma cells?
500
This kind of immunity would be developed after surviving a disease.
What is active immunity?