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Immune System

This category is for questions about how our bodies identify and fight off disease, infection or pathogens through specialized cells, tissues and organs. The system that does this is called the immune system. It produces antibodies which recognize intruders and neutralizes potentially pathogenic organisms or substances.

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What is the Prozone hook effect?

Prozone effect or (high-dose) hook effect is the cause of a false negative or false low result which occur from an excess amount of antigen or antibody in a sample due to the inability of an analyte to bind to a receptor site.

Serological testing is based on the fact that antibodies react specifically with an anigen all bacteria have the same antigens or the human body makes antibodies against bacteria?

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The human body makes specific antibodies to specific antigens (ex. proteins on a bacterial membrane) that it encounters. Bacteria do not all have the same antigens.

* antibodies react specifically with an antigen

What toxin do you suspect and how do you treat it?

Botulinum, supportive care and antitoxin. CBRNE-December 2011

The best way to build a strong immune system is to what?

Make sure u eat tons of fruits,and,veggies, and hold back on the red meat

What qualifications did edward Jenner achieve when he trained in London?

he completed his apprenticeship in his hometown Berkeley and moved to London to study anatomy and surgery under John Hunter at St. George Hospital. He started off as a surgical dresser and then moved to being an anatomical assistant.

What bones are in the immune system?

There are no bones in the immune system. Bones are in the skeletal system.

What does your immune system do?

Aids and HIV are not the same thing though many people think they are. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) attacks your body and destroys your CD4+ cells, which are part of the bodies immune system therfore it slowly weakens your bodies immune system so it can no longer fight diseases as well as it once could. Aids is only when you have a full outbreak of HIV. I am sorry I couldn't be of more help I don't have alot of time right now to give a more discriptive answer.

Does tar weaken the immune system?

Not directly but if it comes from smoking it gets into your lungs and weakens your entire body.

Plasma cells develop from transformed t or b cells?

The plasma cells develop from transformed b cells.

What effect would antibodies have on a virus that causes the flu?

Antibodies can attach to and render a virus unable to attach to your cells to infect them. If you get a preventive vaccination, your antibodies will get to work on this project much sooner and you may feel no symptoms at all.

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Antibodies are specific to each particular virus or other pathogen, and play a key role in the immune response to invading virus infections. The antibodies are created to be the perfect shape to block the virus from being able to attach to the cells. If unable to attach to the cell, the virus can not reproduce. See related questions below for more information about the immune response to viral infections.

What is absolute lymphocyte?

Absolute lymphocyte count is the number of lymphocytes (a certain type of infection fighting white blood cell) in a given volume of blood. This is in distinction to the percentage of white cells that are lymphocytes.

What type of immune disorder is SLE?

The Immune Disorder SLE is and autoimmune disorder.

What is the first thing a pathogen does when it enters your body?

reproduce. The more there is the more likely they are to survive x

How do antibodies work?

Function Since antibodies exist freely in the bloodstream, they are said to be part of the humoral immune system. Circulating antibodies are produced by clonal B cells that specifically respond to only one antigen (an example is a virus capsid protein fragment) . Antibodies contribute to immunity in three main ways: they can prevent pathogens from entering or damaging cells by binding to them; they can stimulate removal of a pathogen by macrophages and other cells by coating the pathogen; and they can trigger direct pathogen destruction by stimulating other immune responses such as the complement pathway. Antibodies that bind to surface antigens on, for example a bacterium, attract the first component of the complement cascade with their Fc region and initiate activation of the "classical" complement system. This results in the killing of bacteria in two ways. First, the binding of the antibody and complement molecules marks the microbe for ingestion by phagocytes in a process called opsonization; these phagocytes are attracted by certain complement molecules generated in the complement cascade. Secondly, some complement system components form a membrane attack complex to assist antibodies to kill the bacterium directly. To combat pathogens that replicate outside cells, antibodies bind to pathogens to link them together, causing them to agglutinate. Since an antibody has at least two paratopes it can bind more than one antigen by binding identical epitopes carried on the surfaces of these antigens. By coating the pathogen, antibodies stimulate effector functions against the pathogen in cells that recognize their Fc region. Those cells which recognize coated pathogens have Fc receptors which, as the name suggests, interacts with the Fc region of IgA, IgG, and IgE antibodies. The engagement of a particular antibody with the Fc receptor on a particular cell triggers an effector function of that cell; phagocytes will phagocytose, mast cells and neutrophils will degranulate, natural killer cells will release cytokines and cytotoxic molecules; that will ultimately result in destruction of the invading microbe. The Fc receptors are isotype-specific, which gives greater flexibility to the immune system, invoking only the appropriate immune mechanisms for distinct pathogens.