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What are specific immune proteins? What is another name for them? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Immunoglobulins (Ig)
Antibodies
Adaptive immune proteins
Describe the function of interferon - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Communicating cytokines secreted in response to non-self invasion
Interfere with viral replication
Activate B and T Lymphocytes
Activate APCs and NKCs
Increasing the expression of self and communicating markers
,What non-professional phagocytes are found in the blood vessels? -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Vascular endothelium cells
What non-professional phagocytes are found in the connective tissues?
- ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Fibroblasts
Describe the process of phagocytosis and pinocytosis - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > 1.Pattern recognition of pathogen by pattern recognition
receptors on outside of cell
2. Pathogen brought into phagocyte to form phagosome
3. Lysozymes combine with phagosome to produce phagolysosome
4. Pathogens are degraded and sent out into the extracellular fluid as
ANTIGENS
Describe an innate immune response - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Immediate, simple, and non-specific
Memory is ABSENT
,Describe an adaptive immune response and give an example - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Gradual, complicated, and specific
Memory is PRESENT
Antibody-mediated immune responses
T-cell mediated immune responses
What are examples of innate immune responses? - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Phagocytosis/pinocytosis
Antigen presentation
NKC-mediated cytotoxicity
Innate lymphoid cells
Complement-mediated cell lysis
Cytokine-mediated responses
, What is the difference between professional phagocytes and non-
professional phagocytes? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Professional
phagocytes main job/function is phagocytosis
Non-professional phagocytes have other roles in addition to
phagocytosis
What are examples of professional phagocytes? - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Neutrophils
Monocytes
Macrophages
Dendritic Cells
Osteoclasts
Kupffer Cells
Microglial Cells
What professional phagocytes are found in the blood? - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > Neutrophils
Monocytes
What professional phagocytes are found in the tissues? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Macrophages