Humoral Response Immunity

Question 1

What is humoral response?

Answer 1

Humoral response is the response involving B cells and antibodies

Question 2

Humoral response process

Answer 2

1. Antigens in blood collide with their complementary antibody on a B cells
   - B cells takes in antigen by endocytosis
   - and then presents it on its cell surface membrane
2. When this B cells collides with helper T cells receptor, this activates the B cells to go through clonal expansion and differentiation (clonal selection)
3. B cells undergo mitosis - make large number of cells that differentiate into plasma cells or memory B cells
4. Plasma cells make antibodies
5. B cells divide rapidly into plasma cells when re-infected with the same pathogen
   - to make large numbers of antibodies rapidly