MIMM 214 Final: Final Exam Study Guide
2 Dec 2016
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Inflammation as a repair mechanism: robert koch microbial origin for infectious diseases, f macfarlane burnet theory of clonal selection of adaptive immune responses, a key paradigm to understand immune responses, the immune system is a collection organs, tissues, molecules and cells that coordinately work to protect from infection. Imagine giving cells from an already tolerant person to an unborn baby younger transplant receivers have the best chance because their immune system is still being developed ie they have the ability to accept donor organs because their body and mark the cells as self since it hasn"t fully been formed yet: pathogens can generally be categorized into two types: extracellular and intracellular o viruses are intracellular o parasitic worms are extracellular o some bacteria, parasites, and fungi are extracellular o some bacteria and parasites are intracellular, antigen ag o any molecule that can trigger and immune response o.
