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So that rejection does not occur.
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Why it is important for body to recognize its own cells?
So that rejection does not occur.
Why is it important for immune-system cells to be able to recognize all of the body's own cell?
Think about it for a second. If you lead an army into battle, and your own army start to shoot each other, what odds do you have of winning against the oposition? If the body starts to kill it's own cells that may be used to kill pathogens, it is immediately weakened
How does your body know which cells to attack?
1. Your immune system can recognize cells based on the proteins present on the surface of cells. Viruses, bacteria, and other foreign cells are recognized as being different from your own cells and are attacked by your immune system.
How does the immune system recognize its own body?
By recognizing self from non-self. Every cell in the body carries specific protein markers that are recognized by all immune cells so they do not attack self, at least when the system is operating well.
What happens when the body cannot differentiate between pathogens and body cells?
The immune system will target the body's own cells
Why is it important for immune system cells to be able to recognize all of the body's own cells?
This happens to my Mom sometimes. When she's really stressed, tired, sick, etc; her immune system starts attacking her body again. I don't know why, it just does. It happened with her immune system or something like that and also her eyes. The immune System needs to know what is friendly and a threat to the brain & body. Although it has trouble sometimes when you get a transplant and the shape/size/composition/etc isn't similar enough to your own.
What does the non specific defense system do?
Also. Allied the innate immune system, cells and proteins involved recognize structures shared by classes of microbes not present on the body's own cells and can also recognize molecules released by infected, damaged, or dead cells. The innate system can eliminate microbes on its own but more commonly cells of the innate immune system release chemokines to attract cells that are involved in the adaptive immune system to initiate an antigen or microbe specific immune response
What cell surface molecule is a major agent in tissue rejection?
Class I and II MHC molecules are what the body uses to recognize it's own cells as "self". If it detects an antigen (anything foreign to the body) the immune system will trigger a response.
Disease in which body attacks its own cells?
macrophage
How does the body know which cells to attack?
The body's immune system is able to distinguish between self and non-self cells through various mechanisms. One such mechanism is the presence of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules on the surface of cells, which helps the immune system recognize self-cells. Non-self cells, such as infected or cancerous cells, may display abnormal proteins or antigens that are recognized as foreign by the immune system, prompting an immune response to attack and eliminate them.
The ability of your body's immune system to distinguish between your cells and foreign cells depends on your cells what?
At a basic level here's how it works: The surfaces of our cells have protein "markers" embedded in them, each person's markers are unique. If the immune system doesn't recognize the markers on a cell, it will attack it as being foreign. This usually works pretty well asa defense systems go, however, there are times (autoimmune diseases like Grave's disease, MS and rheumitoid arthritis) when the system attacks the body's own cells anyway or other diseases (HIV, etc) where the immune system doesn't recognize foreign cells, so doesn't attack.
What is body important?
You own... Cherish it
