BIOL 1107 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Innate Immune System, Plasma Cell, Antibody
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Imagine a patient you"re treating has just been exposed to a bacteria. If that first line of defense is breached, the innate immune system within your patient will launch a response to the bacteria. Write out the story of this response in your own words, referring to this picture if need be. Sometimes, the innate immune system will be unable to clear a pathogen on its own, and it will recruit the assistance of the adaptive immune system (our 3rd line of defense). There are two classes of chemical signals (shown in pic above) that the immune cells use to communicate with one another and with surrounding tissue, bystander cells (like the endothelial cells lining the blood vessel in the pic above). 1 term that has come up with covid is cytokine storm . The cells types of the adaptive immune system that you need to be aware of t cells and b cells.
