Adaptive Immunity Flashcards

1
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Against specific pathogens or changed body cells

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Adaptive immunity

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2
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Defense cells in the blood B lymphocytes

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Adaptive

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3
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Antibodies

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Adaptive immunity

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4
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Defense cells in the tissue - T lymphocytes

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Adaptive

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5
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Components of the adaptive immune system

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Cellular - t lymphocytes, b lymphocytes, plasma cells
Humoral- antibodies, cytokines

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6
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Key cells involved in the adaptive immune response

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Lymphocytes

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7
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Allow body to recognize , remember and response to a specific stimulus an antigen.

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Adaptive immunity

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8
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Can result in the elimination of
And recovery from disease and the host often acquires a specific immunologic memory

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Adaptive immunity

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9
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Allow the host to respond more effectively if reinfection with the same microorganism occurs.

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Adaptive Immunity

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10
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Direct cell to cell contact

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T lymphocytes

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11
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Antibody production

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B lymphocytes

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12
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20-40% WBC

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Lymphocytes

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13
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7 - 10 mm in diameter and has large rounded nucleus that may be somewhat indented. ‘

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Lymphocytes

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14
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Primary-lymphoid organs

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Bone marrow
thymus

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15
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Secondary lymphocytes organs

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Spleen, lymph nodes, appendix, tonsils

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16
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Activation site-antigen

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Secondary organs ( lymphocyte)

17
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Are small similar sites when the ABC

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Lymphocytes

18
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Provide undifferentiated progenitor cells

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Bone marrow

19
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Maturation site of lymphocyte

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Primary lymphoid organ

20
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Where B cells/ B lymphocyte matured

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Bone marrow

21
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Can be considered the largest tissue of the body with a total weight of 1300 - 1500 g in the adult

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Bone marrow

22
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Functions as the center for antigen independent lymphopoiesis

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Bone marrow

23
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Main source of hematopoietic stem cell B cell produced and body.

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Bone marrow

24
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Maturation site of T cells

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Thymus

25
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Small, flat, bilobed organ found in the thorax

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Thymus

26
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It weighs an average of 30 o at birth teaches 35 puberty and then gradually atrophies

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Thymus

27
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97% of the cortical cells die in the - before becoming mature Tcells.

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Thymus

28
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Stimulates T cell maturation

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  • Endocrine gland
29
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Thymocytes(inmaturet cells)

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Cortex

30
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Mature T cells

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Medulla