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| Stimulate the activation and function of both T & B cells |
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| Which organ is the most important initiating immune response to blood borne antigens |
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| When the lymphatics are blocked due to tumors, the result is |
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| Increased pressure in the lymphatics proximal to the blockage |
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| What does lymph transport depend on? |
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| Lymph transport depends on the movement of adjacent tissue, such as skeletal muscles |
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| Which of the following is not a Mucosa-Associated Lymphatice Tissue (MALT) |
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| Elevation of this usually minor leukocyte is usually an indication of allergy or parasite infection |
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| Generalized phagocytic cells that engulf pathogens and cellular debris |
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Whicih of the following is not a normal factor in the nonspecific defense measures of external exposed skin
Dry and Nutrient poor surface
Acid mantle
Keratin
Defensins
Lysozyme |
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| What do Natural Killer (NK) cells do? |
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| Can kill cancer cells before the immune system is activated |
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| Interfere with virus multiplication within cells |
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| What is a part of the second line of defense against microorganisms |
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| When the complement system is activated by antibodies atached to the surface antigens of bacteria is which pathway of activation |
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| Which is NOT a function of complement |
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| Enhanced B cell production of antibodies- activation of T helper cells |
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| Which cell of the inflammatory process is primarily a producer of both local (paracrine) secretions and hormones that mediate the inflammatory reaction |
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The cardinal signs of inflammation inculde all except:
Redness
Pain
Fever
Swelling
Heat |
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| This antibody is present in breast milk and may help protect the gastrointertinal tract of a child in the first moths of life |
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| Only antibody that can cross the placenta in significant quantities and confer temporary immunity on the fetus which is critical to protect a newborn during the first weeks of life |
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| Antibodies masking the toxic antigens of bacterial cells or protein toxins |
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| The lymphoid organ that is thought to be the most important in preventing T cells autoimmunity by process of clonal deletion |
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| Small molecules that can bind with self-proteins to produce complete antigen that will trigger an immune response |
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| Antigen presenting cells (APCs) use the cell wall protein____ to present antigens to a T helper cell |
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| The effector cells of cellular immunity that carry out the attack |
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Which of the following is not a benefit of a fever to a host under attack by infectious agents
Inhibits reproduction of many bacteria
Inhibits reproduction of many virus
Promotes Interferon Activity
Decreases Metabolic Rate |
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| The temperature control center of the body is located in which area |
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| Newborn infants gain most of their immunity from |
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| Antibodies passed from the mother across the placenta |
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| The Primary Immune Response |
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| Has a lag period while B cells proliferate and differentiate into plasma cells |
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| Immunity that resultr from injection of a vaccine that contains fragments of a killed virus is an example of what form of immunity |
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| Patient with elevated levels of IgE and elevated numbers of eosinophils would most likely to suffer from |
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| Hypersensativity diseases |
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| Any process in which immune system loses the ability to differentiate self and nonself antigens and then begins attacking self antigens is |
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| Which man is considered to be the father of successful heart transplantation |
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| Richard Herrick recieved the first successful kidney transplant, he was lucky becuase |
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| He was the first patient to recieve a kidney from his identical twin brother |
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| To successfully tissue type a potential organ for transplantation, the laboratory would need what kind of sample from the donor |
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| Prior to the Harvard protocol develpoed in the 1960's the major criterion that had been used for hundreds of years to establish slinical death was |
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| Which medication when used on a chronic basis for treatment of rejection will often lead to high blood suga, fluid retention, and high blood pressure |
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| What happens to the rate of gas diffusion in a patien with pulmonary edema |
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| When a bronchiole constricts then you would expect that |
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| Resistance Increases & Airflow Decreases |
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| As an athlete warms up and begins to forcefully expire air, multiple muscle groups begin to assist in forcefully decreasing the size of the thoracic cavity. The muscles that have both their orgins and insertions with the rib cage are |
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| If the air moving out of the lungs then |
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| Alveolar pressure > Atmospheric pressue |
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| If the thin film of water lining alveoli contained no chemicals, then as the radius of the alveolus decreases the surface tension within the alveolus will? |
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| Which cell type within the lung is reponsible for producing surfactant? |
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| Type II Pneumocyte (Giant Alveolar Cell) |
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| Which pulmonary pressure best measures the elasticity and compliance of the lungs best? |
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| Which gas has the highest solubility in water and diffuses most rapidly across the alveolar capillary membrane |
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| What is the approximate partial pressures (in mm Hg) of oxygen (PO2) in venous blood that is entering the lung |
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| The major point of neurologic control of ventilation is |
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| When PO2 increases in a pulmonary arteriole, what happens to the diameter of that arteriole? |
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| We know the respiratory drive to breath is a complicated process involving everything from emotions to arterial blood pH to blood levels of O2 and CO2. What will decrease the rate and depth of breathing |
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| A patient suffers a respiratory arrest for several minutes during which time his PCO2 increases to 85 mm Hg. As a result of the increases circulationg levels of CO2 we would expect that the patient's arterial pH would |
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| Decrease Significantly (acidosis) |
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| Asthma is a classic example of what type of lung disorder |
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| If there is air in the pleural cavity (from puncture of chest wall or rupture of alveolus into pleural space) then this state of the chest is called |
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| When a premature infant is not producing adequate surfactant, he will develop |
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| Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) |
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| Which cell type within the lung has the primary responsibility for protecting the alveoli from the foreign particles and bacteria |
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| The air filling the conduction system of the lung is called |
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