Key Terms for Ch 15

Question 1

Antibody titer

Answer 1

a test that detects and measures the amount of antibodies in the blood to help determine the strength of a person’s immunity against a specific microorganism

Question 2

Antiproliferative drugs

Answer 2

drugs that slow the growth of these lymphocytes most responsible for autoimmune disease and for transplant rejection

Question 3

antirejection drugs

Answer 3

drugs that suppress the cells and factors of the immune system responsible for the receiving patient’s rejection of transplanted tissues and organs

Question 4

attenuated vaccine

Answer 4

a vaccine containing live organisms that have been weakened and rendered harmless so that they are not capable of causing disease but are still able to produce an immune response

Question 5

biosynthetic vaccine

Answer 5

a vaccine composed of man-made substances that are very similar to the part of a virus or bacterium that cause disease

Question 6

calcineruin inhibitors

Answer 6

a class of drugs that works b y forming a complex around the normal calcineurin present inside T-lymphocytes preventing the calcineurin from activating those cells