what two things does the non-specific immune system do?
Search the body to see if we have recongise this pathogen and create a defence against it ( the same defence for every pathogen)
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what is specific immunity?
The immune system we start to develop straight after birth.
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what is another name for specific immunity?
acquired
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What features of the Mucus membrane help it do its job?
- It lines all surfaces which have exposure to the outside environment and it produces mucus which helps sweep pathogens away
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What specalised connective tissue cells play a role in this response?
Mast cells
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what is this cells job?
the look after the body for any unwanted objects
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Once the cell has done its job what chemical does it release?
Histamine
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What is the job of this chemical?
To make the blood vessels more permable to allow fluid to go to the infected area causing an inflammatory response
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What is the name of the white blood cells which has full VIP access to the whole body, Apart from specific areas such as the brain and the spinal cord
leukocytes
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The white blood cell is in your blood stream and once at the infected site it send signals to what to allow them access to the infected area
capillaries
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what is the name of this process?
Diapedesis
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This while blood is specific to what type of immunity?
Innate
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What is the role of Phagocytes
Eat invadors
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what is this process called
phagocytosis
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Natural kill cells are the only phagocyte in the immune system which can do what?
Kill another human cell
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When a cell is healthy they have a protien on their surface, and when they are unhealthy they no longer have this protein on their surface. what is this protein called?
MHC1
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What is the name of the phagocyte which hangs out on surfaces which have contact to the external environment?
Dendritic
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This cell carries information around with it and gives it to the what?
spleen and lymph nodes
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what is an antigen
anything that causes the body to ID a pathogen and build antibodies against it
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What highly specalised cells help to build antibodies
B cells
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Do antibodies kill?
no
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T lymphocytes are formed in what body of the body and mature in what part of the body
form in the bone marrow and mature in the thymus
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If you require a cell mediated response what do this mean
the infection is already in the cells
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Which lymphocyte is used in the cell mediated response?
T
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Helper T cells get their information from what white blood cell
macrophages
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what has this white cell done to the pathogen to acquire this information
killed it
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When the white blood cell killed it, it got what on its membrane surface
the pathogens proteins
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What is non-specific immunity
Back
the immunity we are born with
Card 3
Front
What is another name for non-specific immunity?
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Card 4
Front
what two things does the non-specific immune system do?
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