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| Examples of alloimmunity? |
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hemolytic disese of newborn
graft rejections |
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| HIV is considered to be a retrovirus and it carries its genetic information in ______ rather than _____ |
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| CD4 acts as a receptor for _______? |
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| Early symptoms of AIDS are? |
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| fever, headache, tiredness, nausea, diarrhea and enlarged lymph nodes |
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| Later symptoms of AIDs include? |
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| persistent lymphadenopathy, weight loss, recurrent fevers neurologic abnormalities with dementia in late stages, depressed immune system, recurrent pulmonary infiltrates, development of opportunistic infections such as PCP and Kaposi's sarcoma. |
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| Inflammation usually becomes chronic because of? |
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| persistence of an infection, an antigen or a foreign body in a wound |
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| Changed immunologic reaction to an antigen that results in a pathologic immune response after re-exposure to the same antigen is known as? |
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| systemic lupus erythematosus, Hashimoto thyroiditis are examples of? |
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| Rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, pernicious anemia and ulcerative colitis are all _______ |
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| common autoimmune diseases |
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