Unit 6.1 Test Flashcards
Molecules that act as messengers helping control and coordinate a variety of cellular activities in the body.
Hormones
55% of blood volume, thinlight - colored layer consisting of white blood cells .
Plasma
What stops blood/promote blood clotting?
Platelets
The ______ system is a collection of glands and tissues responsible for secreting hormones.
Endocrine
____________ is the body’s tendency to mainatain conditions within appropriate limits.
Homeostasis
Just above the erythrocytes is a thin light-colored layer called the ________ coat containing leukocytes and platelets.
Buffy
RNA virus that attacks and destroys CD4 lymphocytes, there by decreasing the ability to fight infections with cell-mediated immunity
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)🩸🩸
The immune system’s response to its first encounter with a particular antigen
Primary Immune Response
Polio, a crippling and sometimes deadly disease, has been eliminated from the United States and greatly reduced throughout the rest of the world, thanks to the availability of polio _______.
Vaccines
Sometimes the immune system begins attacking tissues that should be recognized as “self,” and these are called __________ diseases.
Autoimmune
Infectious agent that can only replicate inside a living cell; consists of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) surrounded by particular sites on host cells.
Virus
Programmed cell death.
Apoptosis
Immune systems reaction to invasion or injury characterized by release of chemicals that increase blood flow and summon white blood cells, resulting in redness, pain, warmth, and swelling.
Inflammation
Substances that cause an increased body temperature are called ________.
Pyrogens
Lymphoid organs in the back of your throat .
Tonsils