01:146:356 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Mhc Class Ii, Complement System, Immunoglobulin M

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Ability to protect itself from viruses, bacteria, and other disease causing entities is known as immaturity. Protects body from pathogens and antigens, removes dead or damaged cells as well as old rbc, and recognizes and removes abnormal cells created. Failure to perform can be caused by incorrect responses (autoimmune diseases), overactive responses (allergies to antigen), and lack of response (immunodeficiency diseases) o. Primary is when its inherited, secondary is when its acquired (hiv/aids: pathogens of the human body. First line of defense is physical and chemical barriers (skin, mucus, stomach acid) /suppression suppression for those that can"t be destroyed (tubersclerosis, malaria, herpes) Antibodies bind antigens and make them more visible to immune system; cytokines are released by one cell to affect the growth of another cell. Innate immunity is general immunity from birth (sign is inflammation) takes min to hour.

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