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• What cells do myeloid precursors turn into? -✓✓red blood cells, white
blood cells, and platelets
• What cells do lymphoid precursors turn into? -✓✓specialized white
blood cells called lymphocytes
• Granulocytes are -✓✓basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils
• Agranuloyctes are -✓✓T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, monocytes
• What two type of immunity make up the immune system? -✓✓innate
and adaptive
• What line of defense is innate immunity? -✓✓first
• What is the role of innate immunity? -✓✓is to mount a non-specific
response to a non-self entity that does not retain memory of the entity
• What types of things does innate immunity respond to? -✓✓skin,
mucous membranes, normal flora of the skin and gut as barrier or
bacterial protection against foreign substances AND cellular components
such as phagocytes, natural killer cells, granulocytes, and macrophages
, • If innate immunity proves to be insufficient, what is mobilized? -
✓✓adaptive immunity
• Adaptive immunity leads to what? -✓✓immune system memory
related to a pathogen or foreign substance
• What are the three parts of adaptive immunity? -✓✓humoral
immunity, cell mediated immunity, regulatory t-cells
• What is humoral immunity made up of? -✓✓b lymphocytes, memory b
cells, and plasma to produce immunoglobulins or antibodies
• What is cell mediated immunity dependent on? -✓✓cytotoxic t-cells,
helper t-cells and their cytokines
• What are regulatory t-cells also known as? -✓✓supressor t-cells
• What do regulatory t-cells do? -✓✓regulate the immune response to
prevent autoimmune reactions and limit inflammatory responses
• What are cytokines? -✓✓cytokines are secreted by lymphocytes with
the intention of stimulating macrophages and cytotoxic t lymphocytes to
identify and kill pathogen infected cells or tumor cells
• What do proto-oncogenes do? -✓✓regulate normal cell growth and
division.