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Understanding the Immune System: How it works
www.imgt.orgthe immune system’s job to keep them out or, failing that, to seek out and destroy them. When the immune system hits the wrong target or is crippled, however, it can unleash a torrent of diseases, including allergy, arthritis, or AIDS. The immune system is amazingly complex. It can recognize and remember millions of different enemies, and it ...
Introduction to the Immune System - UWA
www.meddent.uwa.edu.auThe adaptive immune system generates immunological memory – exposure to an infectious agent produces an immune response that can persist, and protect the host in a subsequent exposure 6 . The major types of pathogens confronting the immune system, and some of the diseases they cause 7 .
Chapter 24: The Immune System - Scarsdale Public Schools
www.scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.usThey develop their antigen receptors that stick out from the surface of the cell. The antigen-binding site of the antibody recognizes and binds to the antigenic determinant on the antigen. True B-lymphocytes thymus gland antibodies effector cells memory cells antigen clonal selection REEC7833_08_C24_PRF.indd 146 29/10/14 11:13 AM
Grades 6 to 8 • Human Body Series Immune System
kidshealth.orgImmune System. Students are continually exposed to germs, from doorknobs, railings, you name it. But fortunately, our immune systems are on duty to battle germs that could make us ill. These activities will help your students learn about how the immune system
February 2018 - WHO
www.who.intof other factors such as suppression of the immune system caused by an infectious disease. Of the two techniques most often used to detect levels of aflatoxins in humans, one measures a breakdown product in urine (which however is only present for 24 hours after exposure), and the other measures the level of Aflatoxin contaminated nuts
The Lymphatic System
www.soinc.orgThe Lymphatic System • network of tissues, organs and vessels that help to maintain the body’s fluid balance & protect it from pathogens • lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, tonsils, etc • without it neither the circulatory system nor the immune system would function • can be thought of as an accessory to the circulatory
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM - Duquesne University
sepa.duq.eduwill create “Profiles” for the molecule or cell of ... Explain Identify ... The cells of the immune system are known as white blood cells. Each type of cell performs certain functions, such as killing damaged or infected cells, carrying messages, making antibodies, or carrying away debris. There are four major