Immunity Flashcards
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Antigen
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Is any molecule, usually a protein or carbohydrate that stimulates the immune system
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Immunity
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Is the body ability to repel foreign substances, pathogens and cancer cells
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Lymph nodes
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Are small ovoid structures along lymphatic vessels. Filter lymph and keep it free of pathogens and antigens. Filtered as it flows they a lymph node. All of it it lined by macrophage cells
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Macrophages
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Large, phagocytic cells that engulf and then devour as many as hundred pathogens and still survive.
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Inflammation
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Is to allow phagocytosis cells to get to an infection. Blood vessels become bigger and walls become more permeable
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Lysosomes
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Contains every digestive enzyme inside neutrophil. Phagocytic cell
