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What immunity depends upon the production of disease-specific antibodies to destroy harmful bacteria.?
humoral immunity
What kind of immunity depends upon the production of disease specific antibodies to destroy harmful bacteria?
humoral immunity
What depends upon the production of the disease specific antibodies to destroy harmful bacteria?
humoral immunity
How does active and passive immunity function?
Both passive and active immunity have role in the elimination of bacteria and naturalization of toxins. Extracellular bacteria G+ and G- induce inflammation and production of toxins. Hence, active immunity responses by production of antibodies and passive immunity via phagocytes and complement activation, cytotoxic production by macrophages.
Is a type of immunity that develops from exposure to an antigen. This exposure results in production of antibodies.?
Active Immunity
What does active immunity?
the immunity that results from the production of antibodies by the immune system in response to the presence of an antigen.
What does Active immunity means?
the immunity that results from the production of antibodies by the immune system in response to the presence of an antigen.
Is Acquired Immunity the same as Humoral Immunity?
Actually acquired immunity consists of "humoral immunity" and "cell mediated immunity. Acquired immunity is the same with adaptive immunity, it is when the antibodies are produced within the bodies after the exposure of pathogen. Humoral immunity secreted antibodies while cell mediated immunity involves in production of T lymphocytes.
What does complement do?
Complement plays several functions in immunity. It can poke holes in bacteria, kill bacteria that are first targeted by antibodies, or, working with antibodies, point out which bacteria need to be engulfed by white blood cells.
What controls the immune response by shutting down the production of antibodies in antibody immunity and the production of killer t cells in cell-mediated immunity?
supressor t cells
Why is passive immunity of much shorter time or duration than active immunity?
With active immunity, the body has cells that produce antibodies to antigens composed of amino acids. The antigen could be a protein itself, or on a virus or bacteria. Once the body has a cell that can produce antibodies to this antigen, it differentiates into memory cells and plasma cells, which are the factories that produce the antibodies. With passive immunity, just the antibodies are given, such as an injection. Mothers also confer passive immunity to their children through breast milk. IgA (one of the 5 antibody classes) is secreted. This is temporary as it will bind the antigen, but will not induce production of their own protective antibodies.
What is also known as acquired immunity?
Acquired immunity is a form of immunity gained from bacteria or viruses by the body ITSLEF. Essentially the body has encountered the pathogen (bacteria/virus) and learnt by itself which anti-bodies to produce to fight it. Once the body has found which antibodies are the most effective this information is stored in "memory cells" which, if encounter the same pathogen can quickly make the correct type antibodies to fight the invading pathogen and defeat it quickly. (antibodies are produced by lymphocytes which neutralize toxins and clump bacterium together meaning the phagocytes can engulf them quicker and digest via enzymes) acquired immunity is "natural" including Innate immunity (antibodies passed through placenta/breast milk. artificial immunity includes Active (given modified bacteria which does no harm but body learns how to produce antibodies) and Passive (injected with Antibodies - requires "top-up")
