BIOM 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: T Cell, Antigen Presentation, Blood Plasma

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Antigen specific: recognizes and acts against particular foreign substances. Systemic: not restricted to the initial infection site. Memory: recognizes and mounts a stronger attack on previously encountered pathogens. *antigen is used to describe the foreign substance that elicits an immune response. Any substance capable of exciting the immune system and provoking an immune response i. e. foreign proteins, nucleic acids, large carbohydrates, some lipids, microorganisms. Our immune cells do not attack our own proteins. Our cells in another person"s body can trigger an immune response because they are foreign (that"s why it restricts donors for transplants) Humoral immunity = antibody-mediated immunity (provided by antibodies present in body fluids) Cellular immunity = cell-mediated immunity (targets virus infected cells, cancer cells and cells from transplants) Both antibody-mediated and cell-mediated immunity are mediated by different forms of the lymphocytes. Originate from hemocytoblasts in the red bone marrow. B-lymphocytes become immunocompetenet (require immune capability) in the bone marrow (remember b for bone marrow)

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