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The benefits of antibodies is to fight off bad bacteria that entered your body. They are produced by B cells, and if they fail to get rid of the bacteria, your body would have a fever.

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Can kidneys release antibodies?

No, Kidneys only filter waste from the blood. Antibodies are made by special kinds of white blood cells to.


What is the condition in which antibodies protect a person from disease?

Antibodies protect people from disease because they are special defenders designed to fight a particular virus. Vaccines introduce small amounts of the virus into the body so it can build up antibodies against the disease.


What are proteins that are made by cells to help destroy disease causing bacteria and viruses?

Antibodies produced by B-lymphocytes. Note that antibodies produced by T-lymphocytes stay attached to the cell that made them and do not circulate free in the blood. They are responsible for attacking whole cells and multicellular parasites.


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To what do antibodies respond?

Antibodies are secreted by a special group of white blood cells called lymphocytes. Each type of cell (including bacteria) has a unique protein on its cell membrane - an antigen. If a lymphocyte does not recognise a particular antigen, it will assume that the cell (or bacterium) is foreign and hostile. This is what antibodies respond to - the stimulus as the result of an unfamiliar cell. The antibodies attach to the antigens and kill the cell, or bacterium.


How are monoclonal antibodies used in home pregnancy kits?

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A special group of chemical substances that are used to treat diseases caused by microbes?

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What are antibodies?

Antibodies are special immune system cells that are matched to a specific virus. Once they attach to the virus, it is neutralized as a threat. Your body has to learn how to make antibodies for each virus it encounters, that is what vaccines are used for.


What does the human immune system produced that is the basis for immunization?

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What do vaccines stimulate production of?

Vaccines stimulate production of antibodies.


Antibodies found in blood type A positive?

primarily B antibodies and Rh antibodies


Do T-cells make antibodies?

No they do not. B cells synthesize the antibodies.