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What are the principle cells of the immune system and what is their role in the immune response?
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The principle cells of your immune system are lymphocytes, or white blood cells. The immune system, however, is highly complex, and it is difficult to single out one type of cell for importance. All of the components have to work together in harmony for optimized function.
An immune response is generated when you are exposed to a foreign pathogen. Examples of this would be a virus, bacteria, parasite, or fungus. Your immune system's job is to recognize the invader and destroy it. In this case, the lymphocytes, or white blood cells, engulf the pathogen and eat it up, keeping it from multiplying and making you sick.
You want as many of these white blood cells as you can get when you are fighting off an infection. The rate limiting factor in the production of lymphocytes and the strength of your immune system is a protein called glutathione.
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What are response cells?
Response cells are cells that respond to the immune system and react to diseases.
What are the specific defenses in the immune system?
immune response
Explain how the cells of the immune system evoke and maintain an immune response?
Chuck Norris evokes and maintains an immune response.
Specific immune response?
the bodies immune system tells the white blood cells to attack enemy bacteria (etc.) as the first response to the immune system's defense
Which cell of the immune system is absolutely required for an adaptive immune response?
T helper cells
What is a system that fights disease and controls the immune response?
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What is the role of complement system in immune response?
The role of a complement system in immune response is to make sure that no bad cells penetrate the immune system. A complement system of immunization might be a series of shots, like booster shots for immunizations.
What is immune response?
An immune response is part of the body's defense against pathogens in which cells of the immune system react to each kind of pathogen with a defense targeted specifically toward that pathogen.
What directs the antigen-antibody response by signaling between the cells of the immune system?
Lymphokines
Compare and contrast the roles of B cells T helper cells Th cells and cytotoxic T cells Tc cells in your immune system?
b-cell- humeral- antibody based response to antigen t-cell - cell mediated response to antigen both are components of the adaptive immune system
Which cell of the immune system is absolutely required for an adaptive immune response in that it helps activate both humoral and cellular immune responses?
Helper T cells
What role in leukocyte in the immune response?
White blood cells, or leukocytes are cells of the immune system involved in defending the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials.
