KINE 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Neutrophil, Neutrophil Extracellular Traps, Phagocytosis
17 Sep 2017
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Can only pick up on evolutionary conserved pieces. Adaptive/acquired immune system: memory and ability to fight stronger, faster, better. Formation of memory cells allows systems to react more swiftly against specific invaders in the future. Specifically targets foreign material to which body has already been exposed to. Highly diverse, you can pick up and detect things that aren"t currently existing. *if we take a bacterial cell, the whole thing can be our pathogen, if it"s capable of making us ill. If, after we watch an immune response, we look at what"s produced by the adaptive immune cells to that immune response, and we find something like antibodies our bound to this molecule on the bacterial surface. An antigen is an piece of a pathogen that we launch an adaptive response to. The reason the innate receptors are so limited is because we are born with them.
