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A preparation of killed or weakened pathogens injected or taken orally to stimulate the body to produce antibodies is called a?
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How do you make pathogens harmless before it is injected?
your immune system may stick antibodies all over it or heat kill. Happy Days
What the difference between the vaccine and serum?
a vaccine is a little dose of the disease that your body can handle. when the body is injected with it it will form antibodies that will be ready for the real disease when it comes while the serum is the antibodies themselves.
What is the substance that stimulates the body to release antibodies?
An antigen stimulates the production of antibodies. These are either naturally acquired, like from mother to baby (via breast feeding and within the womb). Actively acquired, like you get chicken pox (varicella) and your body fights it off, but because your body has seen the virus it now knows how to fight it. There is also Passively Acquired immunities which are acheived via immunizations where a "dead" or small amount of virus is injected into your body so that your immune system can recognize it and know how to fight it if exposed. An antibody is a "memory cell" it identifies and kills the invader that it has seen before. HIV/ AIDS interrupts that process because it enters the nucleus and "takes over" the cells that identify the invaders... it's kind of a "smart virus".
What is positive immunity?
If a person's immune system is producing antibodies against a specific antigen, then that person has a positive or active immunity toward that antigen. If a person has merely been injected with antibodies but does not produce them, that is a passive immunity.
What are Weak pathogens injected into your blood called?
Some vaccines are really just a weakened form of the disease. These are called attenuated vaccines.
How exactly do vaccines aid the immune system?
when it is injected it goes into the cell and the cell produces antibodies against the virus which further protects a person
What is the result of a dead or weakend germ injected into your body?
This is the concept of immunization, the immune system identifies the "germ" as an intruder and develops antibodies to fight it.
Explain how vaccines work and evaluate their use?
vaccines work by getting injected by the vaccine and then when your body recives it starts protecting itself and makes antibodies
How does radioimmunotherapy work?
To carry out radioimmunotherapy, antibodies with the ability to bind specifically to a patient's cancer cells are attached to radioactive material and injected into the patient's bloodstream
Does an injection of antibodies produce active immunity?
No. When you are immunized you are injected with an inactive version of the virus so your body learns how to fight it off and you become permanently immune.
How does injecting someone with a killed bacteria vaccine protect someone from getting that disease?
There is nothing like killed disease. You have the killed microorganisms. These killed microorganisms are injected to the person. That gives rise to formation of the antibodies. These antibodies protect the person from the attack of the live microorganism.
What would give you short-term immunity?
passive immunity is short term it could either be from a mom giving the antibodies from her blood to the baby in her womb, and when the baby gets out, it still has some of the anitbodies to protect it (for a couple days/ months/ years) or antibodies are injected into a person (this is not a vaccine) to help cure the illness (rabies is an example of a disease where people inject the antibodies)
