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Title

Microbiology

Description

Overview of Immune Response

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Subject

Biology

Level

Undergraduate 1

Created

11/12/2007

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Term

What are the three steps to IR?

Definition

Recognition
Activation
Response

Term

What is recognition?

Definition

Binding between the Ag epitope and the BCR or TCR.

Term

What is activation?

Definition

The multiplication of corresponsing lymphocytes. Clonal expansion is the multiplication of effective T or B cells.

Term

What is the response?

Definition

B cells convert to plasma cells which convert to Abs
T cells directly attack T_C and regulate IR up or down.