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When body cells are attacked by viruses they produce what?
INTERFERON is a substance produced by body cells when they are attacked by viruses.
Why do viruses kill?
Your host cells in your body.
Do red blood cells destroy viruses in your body?
No. Only white blood cells destroys pathogens, such as viruses.
Which best describes how common cold spread in the human body?
viruses replicate inside respiratory cells.
What do viruses do when they enter the body's cells?
create resistant spores
How do viruses kill cancer cells?
Viruses can be engineered to specifically target and infect cancer cells, causing them to die. Some viruses can also stimulate the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells. Additionally, certain viruses have the ability to directly interfere with the replication process of cancer cells, leading to their death.
Where would viruses most likely grow?
Viruses can only live in living organisms (viruses themselves are not actually living). They might infect cells in our body, such as throat cells (infection of throat cells causes sore throat).
How can you kill viruses?
There are numerous products that kill viruses on environmental surfaces, but few that safely attack them in the body. The body's "T helper cells" can signal macrophages to attack some viruses.
Why can penicillin be used as a drug?
Antibiotics like penicillin work by killing the bacteria that cause the disease while they are inside the body. They damage the bacterial cells without damaging the body's cells. They don't work on viruses because viruses invade body cells in order to reproduce.
What are some limitations of antibiotics?
One thing is that antibiotics cannot kill viruses, as viruses are DNA structures which enter the cells in your body in order to duplicate, however antibiotics cannot enter into the cells, and can therefore not stop the virus.
Interferons are a body cell's defense against?
Interferons are a body cell's defense against viral infections. They are proteins released by cells in response to the presence of pathogens, such as viruses. Interferons help to inhibit the spread of viruses to neighboring cells and activate the immune system to fight off the infection.
What types of cells are involved in destroying viruses that invade the human body?
interferons
