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Lymphatic System

This category is for questions about the various vessels by which lymph, a watery fluid of leukocytes, circulates through the body, providing transportation for some materials and removing particulate from tissues.

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Why should the immune system be depressed?

Another goal of preparation is to depress the immune system. This makes it less likely that the patient's body will reject the new stem cells. New advances have been made that allow some of the patient's diseased cells to remain and mix with the new cells

Which organs composed the lymphatic system?

urinary system , reproductive system, tongue, intestines, and crystal ball.

What does your immune system do when you get a cut?

Once you cut yourself, your skin goes through a multi-stage process of regeneration. First, there's theinflammatoryphase, when your skin goes into overdrive to prevent further damage. The blood vessels narrow, and the blood coming out of the wound clots to stop the flow. Your body releases a flood of chemicals that start the healing process, and specialized cells clear the wound of debris over the next several days. Your body also begins a process called epithelialization, in which new skin cells are created to form a protective barrier against bacteria and retain water. Next, there's the proliferativephase, in which you make a lattice of more skin cells and small blood vessels known as capillaries that give the wound its purplish-pink appearance and supply oxygen and nutrients so that the cells can produce proteins. (One of them is collagen,which is what scars are mostly made of.) After two to three weeks, theremodeling phase begins, as the replacement layer becomes stronger and more normal in color. Over the next six months, your replacement skin will become 70 percent as strong as your original hide.

Can a virus destroy the immune system?

HIV targets CD4+ cells in your immune system, and uses them for factories of reporduction. The CD4+ lymphocyte is the most potent killer in your immune system. By killing off these CD4+ cells, HIV can effectively render your immune system useless and leave you susceptible to many different types of infections that can be fatal.

Why are lymph nodes often inflamed or swollen when we get sick?

because it collects lymph and bacteria within begins to kill the bacteriabecause the pores of the lymph node contains antibodies

Where in the body do immune system cells cluster?

Laced along the lymphatic routes-with clusters in the neck, armpits, abdomen, etc.

What are two major function of the lymph nodes?

(1) A lymph is transported back to the blood stream, the lymph nodes act as lymph "filters" Macrophages in the nodes remove and destroy microorganisms and other debri that enter the lymph from the loose connective tissues, effectively preventing them from being delivered to the blood and spreading to other parts of the body. (2) They help activate the immune system. Lymph nodes and other lymphoid organs are strategically located sites where lymphocytes encounter antigens and are activated to mount an attack against them.

A patient has HIV and therefore a weakened immune system. which of the following precaution measure would best protect the patient from common bacteria?

A patient of HIV has a weakened immune system because the virus kills the red blood cells. It is therefore important for HIV patients to protect themselves from bacteria by seeking medical help regularly.

What type of arthritis is believed to result from the immune systems attack on ones own joint tissues?

There are hundreds of types of arthritis. The most common variety that fits your description of the immune system attacking the joint tissue is Rheumatoid Arthritis. Another immunological disease is Psoriatic Arthritis, where it is believed the immune system attacks the skin as well as the joints.

What does pathological staging or a staging laparotomy involve?

a surgeon checks the abdominal lymph nodes and other organs for cancer and removes small pieces of tissue. A pathologist examines the tissue samples for Hodgkin's disease cells.

What happen when the circulatory system fail to work properly?

The circulatory system is like a car engine. We can view our heart as the engines and the lungs as the air filters, and the muscles as different organs which break down the fuel which is the food we intake daily.

Our heart is the central focus, this due to its imperative nature of being the organ of our body which pumps the fuel (food converted into chemicals) around the body of a human. When our circulation system fails, every other organ starts to shut down. However, the first and most important place that would be affected would be the heart. If the heart fails every other major circulation organs fail, due to lack of oxygen which is carried in the blood platelets.

Our lungs (portrayed as air filters) are also important, however when either one of these is removed or fails, the quality and oxygen in blood platelets drop to count zero. This is also a contributing factor which eventually leads to the lack of oxygen, which is required by every organ in our body. Without oxygen, our muscles will eventually die.

Our muscles are also important which play the role of breaking down the chemicals of the food we intake and break it down to fine chemicals which we use to create energy by burning fat and other energy systems which are utilized during exercise.

It is virtually a domino effect when one single organ breaks down, another will fail to operate due to the lack of corresponding chemicals needed for different uses. It is simply one chemical which is needed in our bodies which depends on whether our body will functions may operate normally or not, which is Oxygen.

What is the goal of the lymphatic system?

- transport lymph, clear, colorless fluid containing white blood cells

- lymphocytes are manufactured in the lymph nodes

- defence (Specific, Nonspecific) mechanism of the body

- Return tissue fluid to the bloodstream

- Transport fats from the digestive tract to the bloodstream

How does involvement of MHC 1 and MHC 2 help immune system?

MHC I

MHC I is present in all cells except red blood cells (they lack nuclei). MHC I will present an intravesicular antigen to the cells surface for it to be identified as self or foreign by your adaptive immunity cells.

MHC II

MHC II is present in professional antigen presenting cells which include: macrophages, B cells and dendritic cells. These cells will engulf bacteria, soluble proteins, viruses, etc. Whatever was taken into the cell becomes processed in the increasingly acidic endosome that eventually will cut the antigen into peptides. MHC II transported from the ER will meet up with this endosome and the peptides will bind to MHC II for it to eventually present on the cells surface.

Why is the immune system so complex?

Because it has a lot of very varied jobs to do, and many different pathogens to fight against.