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Infection & Alterations in Immunity and Inflammation
Infection and Alterations in Immunity and Inflammation
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05/09/2012

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Term
Examples of alloimmunity?
Definition
hemolytic disese of newborn
graft rejections
Term
HIV is considered to be a retrovirus and it carries its genetic information in ______ rather than _____
Definition
RNA, DNA
Term
CD4 is a/an ________?
Definition
antigen
Term
CD4 acts as a receptor for _______?
Definition
HIV
Term
Early symptoms of AIDS are?
Definition
fever, headache, tiredness, nausea, diarrhea and enlarged lymph nodes
Term
Later symptoms of AIDs include?
Definition
persistent lymphadenopathy, weight loss, recurrent fevers neurologic abnormalities with dementia in late stages, depressed immune system, recurrent pulmonary infiltrates, development of opportunistic infections such as PCP and Kaposi's sarcoma.
Term
Inflammation usually becomes chronic because of?
Definition
persistence of an infection, an antigen or a foreign body in a wound
Term
Changed immunologic reaction to an antigen that results in a pathologic immune response after re-exposure to the same antigen is known as?
Definition
hypersensitivity
Term
systemic lupus erythematosus, Hashimoto thyroiditis are examples of?
Definition
autoimmunity
Term
Rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, pernicious anemia and ulcerative colitis are all _______
Definition
common autoimmune diseases
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