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| What is the origin of leukocytes? |
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| Fetal liver, adult bone marrow |
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| Where is the maturation of B cells? |
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| Where is the maturation of T cells? |
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| If you have HIV/AIDs implication, what type of cells are non-existant? |
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| When basophils are high, what is likey? |
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| When Eosinophils are high, what is the likely diagnosis? |
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| Allergy, parasites and/or autoimmune disease |
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| When neutrophils are high, what is the likely diagnosis? |
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| Bacterial infection, stress, inflamation |
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| When monocytes are high, what is the likely diagnosis? |
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| Viral infection or immune disease |
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| What two WBC's fight infection? |
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| Neutrophils and Monocytes |
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| What is the condition wherein too many WBC interferes with RBS production erythropoeisis and decreased O2? |
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| If you have Leukocytosis, is the WBC high or low? |
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| If you have Leukopenia, is the WBC high or low? |
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| What is Epstein Barr virus? |
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| When you have mononucleosis, what is status of monocytes? |
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| What is a condition in the brain that is due to embolus? |
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| Slow blood clotting, bleeding occurs spontaneously, nose bleeds |
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| What is the 1st line of defense? |
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| Nonspecific surface barriers and associated chemicals |
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| What is the 2nd line of defense? |
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| Nonspecific cellular barriers such as phagocytotic cells |
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| What type of cells are Neutrophils, Monocytes, and NK? |
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| Phagocytotic nonspecific cellular barrier cells |
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| What do NK or T-killer cells do? |
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| Attack body cells with abnorml plasma membrane protein |
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| What is a cardinal sign for an inflammatory response? |
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| Redness, pain, heat, swelling,loss of function |
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| What is the purpose of an inflammatory response? |
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| Contain area and stop spread of infection |
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| What is a general term for a nonspecific immune response? |
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| What type of mechanism is and IFN Interferon? |
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| Antimicrobial mechanism that stops virus from duplication |
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| What is the function of IFN? |
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| Interferon cells infected with virus spread IFN to other cells to prevent replication- activates lymphocytes |
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| Inhibits bacterial growth |
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| What is Compliment C1 to C9 proteins? |
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| Blood protein mechanism to lyse foreign cells which have been tagged -opsonization |
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| C5 to C9 comples membrane attack complex that forms a hole in cell membrane for lysis |
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| In compliment C1 to C9 proteins, what is antibody binding? |
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| Compliment binds to an antibody |
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