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What substance does not protect against invaders in the nonspecific immune response?
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What are the bodies nonspecific defenses against pathogens?
Your body's most important nonspecific defense is the skin. Other nonspecific defenses include mucus, sweat, and tears.
Which type of immunity defends against any type of invader?
Nonspecific
The body's nonspecific defenses against invading pathogens include?
Mucus, sweat, and tears
What is the difference between specific and nonspecific defense?
Fever
What is a general term describing protective responses effective against any pathogen?
Nonspecific Defenses
What is the difference between the specific and nonspecific immune response?
Immunity provides protection against specific foreign antigens, displays memory, and it requires distinction between self and non self antigen.
Who protected the Qin dynasty against invaders?
Soldiers
Can antibodies be used up?
Antibodies are continuous being produced by activated B cells in your body as a response to your constant exposure to invaders. Antibodies are proteins and synthesized like proteins. Therefore, antibodies will be produced until you die. However, antibodies against a certain type of invaders may disappear when the invaders are eliminated. The ability of the body to respond to the same invaders when they come again lies in the preservation of the B cells that produced these antibodies, not the actual antibodies themselves.
Is cilia a specific defense against infection?
No its nonspecific. The cillia wave to move mucous up the airways creating what is known as the mucocilliary escalator which pushes pathogens and debrie up to the pharynx where it is then swallowed from and ends up in the stomach where it is destroyed. As this is the case for all pathogens and not any particular one it is nonspecific. Specific defenses are things like the actios of antibodies and lymphocytes.
Who were the crusades fought against?
muslim invaders of the holy land
What does an antigen do?
An antigen is a foreign body. It is used as a "template" to begin an appropriate immune response.
Why was the great firewall of china created?
The Great Wall was constructed to help defend against invaders, like the Mongols.
