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What is a word that means a white blood cell that makes antibodies?
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∙ 14y ago
A B-cell or B-lymphocyte. Technically, resting B-cells do not make antibodies, they mostly hang out in lymph nodes and wait for an activation signal from helper T cells. Once they get the activation signal, they differentiate into plasma cells, which do make antibodies.
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What blood cell are antibodies produced by?
Antibodies are produced by a kind of white blood cell called a plasma cell.
What cell make antibodies?
White blood cells make antibodies called lymphocytes or B cells
The cells capable of fighting bacterial infection in the body are?
it is white blood cells
What is the protein or molecule that makes antibodies when you are sick called?
A type of white blood cell known as a lymphocyte create antibodies. Lymphocytes are further divided into T-cells, B-cells, and natural killer cells.
What cells produce antibodies and destroy pathogens?
white blood cells
What Substance in the blood that destroys certain kinds of diseases?
Antibodies and white blood cells Antibodies and white blood cells
What makes antibodies in the body?
Yes, by certain white cells in the blood. Some of these cells produce free floating antibodies while others present their antibodies on their surface receptors. These different systems fight infection by different kinds of organisms.
What do white blood antibodies do?
They fight infections
What blood cell are antibodies produced by?
Antibodies are produced by a kind of white blood cell called a plasma cell.
The blood component is responsible for producing antibodies?
White blood cells
What component of blood has large amount of antibodies?
The white blood cells.
What type of chemical is released by some white blood cells to attack viruses?
Antibodies. which you know is a white blood cell that fights things that are anti-body.
What does it mean if your white blood count is 11.9?
A white blood cell count of 11.9 indicates an extremely low blood cell count. This means that your body doesn't have enough natural antibodies to fight infection.
Can kidneys release antibodies?
No, Kidneys only filter waste from the blood. Antibodies are made by special kinds of white blood cells to.
The disease fighters in your blood that make antibodies are white blood cells?
nothing
What are white blood cells essential to resisting disease?
White blood cells resist antibodies which latch on to the germs so that macrophage, another type of white blood cell, can dissolve the germ. White blood cells also become plasma cells which release millions of antibodies.
What is the organic substance for antibodies?
Antibodies are made from y-shaped proteins by white blood, plasma cells.
