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| disease causing organism e.g. bacteria, virus) |
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| general response to infection including phagocytosis |
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| response to damage or infection involving vasodilation and increased capillary permeability |
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| substance released by mast cells that causes the inflammatory response |
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| cells that produce histamine in response to tissue damage |
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| defence proteins secreted from phagocytes; involved in signalling to other white blood cells to attract them to the site of infection |
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| white blood cell that recognises surface antigens then engulf and destroy them |
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| method used by phagocytes to engulf and destroy pathogens |
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| organelles in phagocytes that contain digestive enzymes to destroy engulfed pathogens |
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