IMM250H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)
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The purpose of the innate immune system is to recognize the pathogen and react to the pathogen. Viruses carry around genetic material that infect a cell where phagocytosis occurs. It"s a (cid:272)halle(cid:374)ge for the i(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)e syste(cid:373) to deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e whats a threat. A (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) of a pathoge(cid:374) is to evolve rapidly. This is when adaptive immunity kicks in to reogicnize rapidly evolvingpathogens. Innate can recognize crucial pathways that can lead to pathogens. At o(cid:374)e poi(cid:374)t i(cid:374) the war athe(cid:374)es was de(cid:272)i(cid:373)ated (cid:271)y a plague, they did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)ow what it was. The black plague killed about 1/3 of the population in europe, The disease is passed to humans by rats. The british were protected by smallpox because they were using a practice. Variolation: taking materials from the smallpox scar and injecting it in you. The royal family injected the variolation into prisonsers/orphans before they gave it to themselves and all the prosioners survived. They then agreed to give it to themselves.
