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| ability to resist microbes, their products, and environmental products such as pollen |
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| Innate Immunity (nonspecific) |
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| all of the body’s defenses that continually protect against any invader; includes physical and chemical barriers, and elements in the blood. |
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| Adaptive Immunity (specific) |
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| immunity refers to defenses specific for a particular pathogen; slower, but usu involves memory; vertebrates only |
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| an enzyme found in tears and saliva that hydrolyzes the peptidoglycan in the cell wall of bacteria |
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The study of all features of the body’s second and third lines of defense
Study of the body’s response to infectious agents
Study of allergies and cancer |
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| Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS) |
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| Markers that many different kinds microbes have in common |
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| Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs) |
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Used by host cells with important roles in the innate immunity of the second line of defense
Recognize PAMPs |
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| Mononuclear phagocyte sytems |
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| Gut-associated lymphoid tissue |
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| production of blood cells |
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| primary precursor of new blood cells maintained in the bone marrow |
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| What does Phagocyte mean? |
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| the accumulation of a whitish mass of cells, liquefied cellular debris, and bacteria |
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| bacteria such as streptococci, staphylococci, gonococci, and meningococci that stimulate the formation of pus |
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| substances that reset the hypothalamic thermostat to a higher setting |
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| products of infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria, protozoans, fungi, endotoxin, blood, blood products, vaccines, or injectable solutions |
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| liberated by monocytes, neutrophils, and macrophages during phagocytosis such as interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor |
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