MBIO 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Sodium Chloride, Respiratory Tract, Metabolic Waste

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Body"s ability to resist disease: innate. Doesn"t matter if it"s a virus, bacteria etc. your innate immune system does not care. Skin (doesn"t come and go, its always there) Has memory (every time we will have a faster and better response) Aumoral/antibody (ab) mediated immunity: target is free floating invaders (in blood or lymph, players: b-cells make our antibodies (= b-lymphocyte) Pathogens that have gotten into our cells: players: t-cells (= t-lymphocytes) Protect humans from most infectious diseases: exists at birth and always present, natural host resistance. No memory (doesn"t get better over time: can be specific for tissue, chemical and physical parries, special immune system cells, physiological processes and molecular defenses. Natural host resistance: susceptiblilty to pathogens varies from species to species (some barely get sick, sometimes it depends on how long it has been in an organism) Anthrax: fatal blood infection in cattle"s vs cutaneous in humans: infection site and tissue specificity.

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