Antigen- Foreign Flashcards
What are antigens that originate from outside the body such as food, allergens, bacteria, viruses, and transplantation antigens?
Foreign antigens
What are the 8 major food allergens?
Milk, Eggs, Fish, Shellfish, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Wheat, Soybeans
What are 3 examples of other allergens? (In air)
Pollen
Dust mite debris
Animal dander
What antigens make up the flagellum of bacterial antigens?
H
What antigens make up the cell wall of bacterial antigens?
O
What antigens make up the pili of bacterial antigens?
F
What antigens make up the capsule of bacterial antigens?
K
What are enveloped virus with icosahedral nucleocapsid and a single envelope protein an example of?
Viral antigen
What is the lipid bilayer derived from host cell called in viral antigens?
Envelope
What are- antigens that are normal parts of the body?
Autoantigens
In people with type 1 diabetes, what type of cells of pancreatic islets contain autoantigens attacked by the immune system?
Beta
What type of cells are insulin-producing cells?
Beta
