Antigen recognition
destroying the antigen
A lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell. The major organelles that are present in lymphocytes include ribosomes, lysosomes, mitochondria, nucleus and Golgi apparatus.
antigen
B-lymphocytes, T4-helper lymphocytes, cytokines, and most importantly pathogens (they're what triggers it in the first place).As B-lymphocytes are maturing and differentiating, each creates a specific antigen-binding site that's fairly unique. When antigens bind to the appropriate B-lymphocytes and activate them, active T4-helper lymphocytes sensitive to the same antigen (effector T4-helper lymphocytes) produce proteins called cytokines to switch on the activated B-lymphocytes' ability to rapidly divide. The process of clonal expansion itself is just the B-lymphocytes and T4-helper lymphocytes suited to the particular antigen rapidly increasing in number and mutating as they do so to better adapt to the antigen; the T4-helper lymphocytes also experience a similar clonal expansion.
Basophils is not Phagocytic
Has no antigen in many textbooks it will state "no A-antigen and no B-antigen"(which imply the possibility of some other antigen) and some will even say, "no antigen" (which is true; antigens are things that attach to antigen binding sites, thus, if it does not fit any antigen binding sites, it is technically not a antigen but merely a "enzyme/protein") but this is just to reduce unnecessary and irrelevant information; they are only concerned about A-antibody, B-antibody, A-antigen, and B-antigen. Nonetheless, know that there are in fact antigens on o blood cells, they are just inactive. My guess is, N acetyl glactosamine on A antigen and Galactose on B antigens are Epitopes (: a small specific regions on antigens that are bound by the antigen receptors on lymphocytes and by secreted antibodies.) Antigens without epitopes will not be detected by antigen binding sites.
Has no antigen in many textbooks it will state "no A-antigen and no B-antigen"(which imply the possibility of some other antigen) and some will even say, "no antigen" (which is true; antigens are things that attach to antigen binding sites, thus, if it does not fit any antigen binding sites, it is technically not a antigen but merely a "enzyme/protein") but this is just to reduce unnecessary and irrelevant information; they are only concerned about A-antibody, B-antibody, A-antigen, and B-antigen. Nonetheless, know that there are in fact antigens on o blood cells, they are just inactive. My guess is, N acetyl glactosamine on A antigen and Galactose on B antigens are Epitopes (: a small specific regions on antigens that are bound by the antigen receptors on lymphocytes and by secreted antibodies.) Antigens without epitopes will not be detected by antigen binding sites.
These tests are based primarily on antigen-antibody reactions--an antigen being a protein foreign to the body, and an antibody another type of protein manufactured by lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) to neutralize the antigen.
B lymphocytes develop in the bone marrow. They then chill out in the blood until they meet an antigen that they are encoded and they become activated. However they need to be checked by another immune cell before to present auto-antigen. Once activated they then go to the spleen.
Antibody - produced by B lymphocytes.
plasma cells
each lymphocyte must become able (competent) to recognize its one specific antigen bye binding to it. this ability is called immunocompetence.