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Blood part E
Blood part E
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
11/05/2008

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What is the origin of leukocytes?
Definition
Fetal liver, adult bone marrow
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Where is the maturation of B cells?
Definition
Grow in bone marrow
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Where is the maturation of T cells?
Definition
Mature in thymus
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If you have HIV/AIDs implication, what type of cells are non-existant?
Definition
T cells
Term
When basophils are high, what is likey?
Definition
Allergy, lukemia, cancer
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When Eosinophils are high, what is the likely diagnosis?
Definition
Allergy, parasites and/or autoimmune disease
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When neutrophils are high, what is the likely diagnosis?
Definition
Bacterial infection, stress, inflamation
Term
When monocytes are high, what is the likely diagnosis?
Definition
Viral infection or immune disease
Term
What two WBC's fight infection?
Definition
Neutrophils and Monocytes
Term
What is the condition wherein too many WBC interferes with RBS production erythropoeisis and decreased O2?
Definition
Leukemia
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If you have Leukocytosis, is the WBC high or low?
Definition
High WBC number
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If you have Leukopenia, is the WBC high or low?
Definition
Decreased # WBC
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What is Epstein Barr virus?
Definition
Mononucleosis
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When you have mononucleosis, what is status of monocytes?
Definition
Atypical
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What is a Thrombus?
Definition
clot
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What is Embolus?
Definition
Floating clot
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What is a condition in the brain that is due to embolus?
Definition
stroke
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What is Thrombus?
Definition
Clot
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What is Embolus?
Definition
Floating clot
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What is hemophilia?
Definition
Slow blood clotting, bleeding occurs spontaneously, nose bleeds
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What is the 1st line of defense?
Definition
Nonspecific surface barriers and associated chemicals
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What is the 2nd line of defense?
Definition
Nonspecific cellular barriers such as phagocytotic cells
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What type of cells are Neutrophils, Monocytes, and NK?
Definition
Phagocytotic nonspecific cellular barrier cells
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What do NK or T-killer cells do?
Definition
Attack body cells with abnorml plasma membrane protein
Term
What is a cardinal sign for an inflammatory response?
Definition
Redness, pain, heat, swelling,loss of function
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What is the purpose of an inflammatory response?
Definition
Contain area and stop spread of infection
Term
What is a general term for a nonspecific immune response?
Definition
Inflammatory response
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What type of mechanism is and IFN Interferon?
Definition
Antimicrobial mechanism that stops virus from duplication
Term
What is the function of IFN?
Definition
Interferon cells infected with virus spread IFN to other cells to prevent replication- activates lymphocytes
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What does a fever do?
Definition
Inhibits bacterial growth
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What is Compliment C1 to C9 proteins?
Definition
Blood protein mechanism to lyse foreign cells which have been tagged -opsonization
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What is a MAC?
Definition
C5 to C9 comples membrane attack complex that forms a hole in cell membrane for lysis
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In compliment C1 to C9 proteins, what is antibody binding?
Definition
Compliment binds to an antibody
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