BPK 140 Lecture 5: Kins 140 Lecture 5 Prof Arnold

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Defenses our body has to address pathogen (not to specific pathogen) Skin, depends on being unbroken, healthy nutrition maintains turnover. Mucous membranes, nasal and pubic hairs, cilia, eyelashes. Secretions: sebum of skin, saliva, tears, acid in gut, genital. Histamine release from mast cell swelling (to contain infection or injury) Cytokines: provides msges to immune system to kick in. Can be harmful, but paradoxically it can be protctive. Increased body temp (by one or two degrees) kills many agents and increases white blood cell activity. The process of priming the body to remember an encounter with a specific antigen. Get the body to remember how to deal with a pathogen. Body produces own way to recognize and deal with specific pathogen (memory to get rid of it) Antibodies are made by another organism (natural-breast milk) Occurs with injection of antibodies or tranfer of antibodies from mother to fetus across placenta or to newborn in breast milk (conferred)

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