EEMB 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Antibody, Antigen, B Cell

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A molecule that can stimulate an immune response. Proteins that are found in blood of vertebrates, and are used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects, such as bacteria and viruses. Signal to the macrophages to consume a pathogen with antibodies bound. You have about 10 billion different antibodies. You have very many different types but very few of each kind. If they meet their meeting antigen, they start to multiply. They then produce copies of themselves with identical binding sites. They differentiate into a few different forms. Some just produce tons of antibodies, others, called memory cells, remember how to stop the same pathogen from infecting again. The second exposure to the same disease is much quicker and much larger than the first exposure that you don"t recognize that you have been infected again. He noticed that milkmaids had clear skin, meaning no smallpox scars.

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