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| the study of the immune system |
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| Self vs nonself surveillance |
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| the ability to distinguish between self and nonself. |
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| any substance capable of triggering an immune response |
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| survey tissue compartments and discover microbes, particulate matter and dead or injured cells |
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| an alteration of a living body that impairs its functions |
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| Disease or disorder caused by a microorganism |
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| the capacity of an organism, a tissue, or a cell to withstand the effects of a harmful physical or environmental agent. The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease. |
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| Likely to be affected with a disease, infection, or condition |
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| an agent originating or produced outside of an organism, tissue, or cell that causes disease. |
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| an agent originating or produced within or caused by factors wwithin the organism that causes diseases |
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| an infectious agent that can only cause disease when the host's resisance is low |
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| Extracellular/ Intracellular |
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| located or occuring outside/inside the cell |
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| secondary form of immunity developed to meet specific needs |
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| genetically based and non-specific |
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white bloodcells
found in the stem cells of bone marrow |
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| What is the first line of defense of innate immunity |
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| Secondary defense in innate immunity |
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| emersed himself in the study of Chinese culture and science, primitive smallpox vaccination was used in China from the tenth century |
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| english writer who introduced smallpox inoculations to England |
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| developed a vaccination for smallpox |
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| was a slave who informed his master about the inoculation procedure in Africa when there was an outbreak in Boston |
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| developed a vaccine against anthrax |
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| Cellular Theory of Immunity: cells were responsible for the immune response ofan organism |
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| Humoral Theory of Immunity |
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| means clear water. is the fluid and protein that has been squeezed out of the blood |
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| removes extracellular fluid that is left behind |
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| Secondary lymphoid organs |
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| Lymph nodes, spleen, tonsils, peyer's patches and appendix |
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| The three formed elements of the blood |
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leukocytes (white blood cells)
erythrocytes (red blood cells)
thrombcytes (platelets) |
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| cells that are able to be any cell in the body |
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| formation and development of the cells in the blood; myeloid and lymphoid |
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| thrombocytes, erythrocytes, ceutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, monocytes/macrophages, dendrictic cells |
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| mature T & B cells , natural killer cells and dendritic cells |
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| neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils |
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Lyphocytes-T & B cells
Monocytes- macrophages |
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| a small protein released by cells that has a specific effect on the interactions between cells or on the behavior of the cells |
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| the cytokine that may activate or chemoattract leukocytes |
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| an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus |
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| any of severy lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system |
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| refers to a group of cytokines family that can cause cell death |
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