Chapters 10-12 Quiz Flashcards
Microflora serve a useful function for their host. These include:
Aiding in the digestion of food
Producing vitamins such as vitamin K
Protecting host from colonization with pathogenic microbes
All of the above
All of the above
A prion is:
host protein lacking a genome that causes neurodegenerative disease
The immune system consists of:
the bone marrow, thymus gland, lymphoid organs, spleen, and T and B lymphocytes
What are the self components that the immune system uses to distinguish self from nonself?
Major histocompatibility molecules
Class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens are found on:
all nucleated cells of the body-allows them to alert immune system of any changes
Which cells in the body are activated to engulf and digest foreign particles and are involved early in the host response to ensure amplification of inflammation and initiation of specific immunity?
Macrophages
Differentiation of T lymphocytes occurs in the:
thymus
Which type of lymphocyte participates in the development of humoral immunity through the production of antibodies?
B lymphocytes
Clusters of differentiation (CD) are:
surface proteins that used as recognition markers for the various types of T and B cells
Cytokines can be described as:
intercellular protein messenger molecules that regulate the movement, proliferation, and differentiation of immune and other cells
The immunoglobulins are produced by
B cells
Which one of the following classes of immunoglobulins cross the placenta? Hint this immunoglobulin Goes across the placenta.
IgG
The most abundant humorally circulating immunoglobulin is
IgG
Which one of the following types of immunoglobulins is involved in allergic and hypersensitivity responses?
IgE
Which cell in the immune system is considered the the master switch ?
CD4+ helper T cells
Which immunoglobulins protect newborns by passing through the placenta?
IgG