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Sometimes it takes time for white blood cells to produce antibodies needed to attack an antigen If this were the case in your body what would you be experiencing while waiting for the antibodies to be?
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What would happen if we didn't have b-cells?
We wouldn't be able to make antibodies to fight antigens(pretty much anything bad that enters our body and creates sickness). Bad bacteria and viruses and fungi would attack your body without anything stopping them.
Why do white blood cells attack your internal organs?
In a healthy person, white blood cells only attack invading germs, and would not attack the person's own internal organs. However, there are autoimmune diseases, which cause the immune system to become confused and to attack the wrong targets.
What does blood type mean?
When an individual has type AB blood, it means the surface of their blood cells contain both A and B antigenic markers. A person with AB blood does not produce antibodies against either of these markers, thus their body does not mount an immune response against their own blood cells. A and B are two distinct antigenic markers/targets that antibodies can attack. Humans can have either A, B, both AB or neither A or B antigens. Your blood type designates the antigen your cells display. Since your body tolerates the type of blood you have, your body will not produce antibodies against your own blood type (otherwise you would be dead as your immune system would mount an attack on your own blood). However, your body will produce antibodies against the other antigenic markers that you do NOT normally exhibit. For example, a type B individual (who produces anti-A antibodies because they are not supposed to have type A blood cells in their body) cannot accept type A blood, otherwise their anti-A antibodies would attack the blood cells leading to immunorejection. An individual with type O blood has neither A or B antigens on the surface of their blood cells and thus can donate this blood to any other individual, since the blood will not be attacked by antibodies that target either A or B antigens. O is thus the universal donor, while AB is the opposite and is the universal acceptor as it tolerates both A and B antigens. Your body produces antibodies against anything it intends to attack, such as viruses, bacteria, and other foreign particles. The agent your body produces that does the attacking is called an antiBODY. The thing that gets attacked by an antibody is an antiGEN.
What type of white blood cells make antibodies?
There are two types of white blood cell. The kind which secrete antibodies to kill microbes are called lymphocytes. The other type, which engulf microorganisms, are called phagocytes.*Specifically, the type of lymphocyte (white blood cell) that produces antibodies would be plasma cells. After a B cell (a type of lymphocyte) undergoes clonal selection, the result is the formation of a clone of B cells that consists of plasma cells and memory B cells. Plasma cells secrete antibodies and memory B cells do not secrete antibodies.
What is special about antibodies?
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.
How do B lymphocytes respond to foreign protein?
B lymphocytes, or B cells would produce antibodies.
Is H1N1 an antigen?
Yes, anything that triggers your immune system to have a response would be considered an antigen. H1N1 is a virus that causes influenza, and the detection of the presence of the virus will cause our immune systems to attack it. The immune system creates antibodies which can grab antigens to flag them as targets and disable them, which are then attacked and destroyed by other cells from the immune system. Once the body has developed antibodies to match the antigens of a particular invader , the pattern of those antibodies is stored by the immune system, and duplicates can be readily produced to grab that invader, if it or one like it, is detected again. That is what gives you immunity.
What can your body get antibodies from?
Your body creates antibodies - as a result of being infected. An antibody only attacks an infection it's been 'programmed' to identify - so a single antibody will not attack multiple diseases. For example - say a person develops measles and chicken pox. Their immune system would produce two different antibodies to attack each disease.
What are the reasons for blood grouping for people having transfusions?
People with different blood types have different types of antibodies. For example, a person who is A- cannot accept blood from a person who is B- because his/her anitbodies would attack the donor's blood cells making them inefficient.
If you have cancer would you have an elevated wbc and what is the reason for this?
Yes, you would have a higher than normal WBC count. The common increase would be in in what are called Natural Killer (NK) lymphocytes. There are 3 functional classes of lymphocytes: 1. T cells (cell-mediated immunity) attack foreign cells directly 2. B cells (humoral immunity) differentiate into plasma cells which synthesize antibodies 3. Natural killer (NK) cells detect and destroy abnormal tissue cells such as cancers You could say that the NK's are trying their best for the body by killing as many abnormal (cancer) cells as possible.
How are they different between active immunity and passive immunity different?
Passive immunity involves the bodies defenses which do not change for different types of microbes. This would be like Natural Killer B cells which attack a wide variety of microbes. Active immunity involves your body becoming acclimated toward a bacteria or virus, such that future contact will spur on a triggered response. An example of this would be the production of antibodies.
