Exam II Answer Key Flashcards
Word for the specific metabolic process by which glucose is created from non-carbohydrate precursors in the liber
Gluconeogenesis
The amount of air remaining in the lungs after a maximal exhalation
Residual Volume
This structure is common to both the digestive tract and the respiratory tract. In other words, food must pass through it on the way from the mouth to the stomach, and air must pass through it on the way from the nose to the lungs
Pharynx
Mesenteries are an extension of this portion of a serous membrane that lines the outer wall of the abdominal body cavity
Parietal Peritoneum
Name a hormone secreted by the stomach and it’s target organ
Gastrin
Stomach
This small, worm-like blind pouch is an extension of the cecum that protrudes from the large intestine nears its junction with the small intestine
Appendix
Vaccines
Viruses or bacteria (or parts thereof) that are injected into your body in order to stimulate an immune response
After a macrophage consumes a virus, it will eventually
Incorporate viral antigenic determination sites into its MHC II markers
Blood of which types have anti-B antibodies
Type A & O
T/F: Antibodies may congregate to form a pore in the membrane of cellular antigens thereby lysing that cells
False; complement proteins do this
T/F: Antibodies may link particulate antigens (e.g. cells such as RBCs and bacteria) together so they cannot function
T
T/F: Antibodies may neutralize antigens by coating them, thereby blocking viral binding sites and rendering bacterial toxins ineffective
T
T/F: Antibodies may link soluble antigens (proteins, etc.) to form an immobile precipitate that is then consumed by macrophages
T
T/F: Antibodies may activate complement which forms an attack complex
T
Which cell type secretes IgE
Plasma, secretes ALL antibodies.
Mast cells receive IgE & uses them as immune receptors
You can have reoccuring bouts of certain ailments such as the flu because
The antigen mutates frequently, thereby rendering ineffective the memory cells produced during a previous infection
A woman with Rh- blood has 3 children fathered by a Rh+ man. If the first child was Rh+, the second was Rh-, and the third was Rh+, what is an accurate scenario?
The first child would be safe, because the mother produced antibodies against the Rh factor only as the first child was being born
Which cells act as “presenter cells” when they place antigenic determinant sites from an antigen on their MHC II markers?
Macrophages, dendritic cells, and B cells
Immunocompetence
The ability to recognize specific antigens
Develops in the bone marrow for B cells or in the thymus gland for certain immune cells that cause apoptosis of body cells (T-Cells)
Opsonization
Covering an antigen with antibodies that have macrophage binding sites on their constant regions, thereby facilitating phagocytic action of the macrophages