- What is innate immunity?
- What is species resistance?
- What are the first lines of defense?
- How does the skin act in immunity? (hint: structure and secretions)
- How do mucous membranes act in immunity?
- How does the lacrimal apparatus act in immunity?
- What is microbial antagonism? Why is it beneficial?
- When does the second line of defense act?
- What are the formed elements?
- What are granulocytes? What are the 3 types?
- What are agranulocytes? What are the 2 types?
- What is the benefit of a differential white blood cell count?
- What is phagocytosis?
- What is the function of eosinophils?
- What is the function of NK lymphocytes?
- What is the function of neutrophils?
- What cells undergo nonphagocytic killing? How do they do this?
- What are toll-like receptors?
- How do interferons aid in the immune system? How do alpha and beta interferons work?
- What is tetherin and how does it play a role in immunity?
- What is complement? What does complement activation lead to?
- How is complement activated?
- How does the classical pathway activate? Alternative pathway?
- What protein does the classical and alternative pathway converge on?
- What does C3a do? C3b?
- What is inflammation? What is acute inflammation?
- What is the function of basophils and mast cells? Where are these cells found?
- What molecule is the primary inflammatory signal? How is it released?
- Why is increased vascular permeability beneficial?
- What is fever? How is it activated?
- Why is fever beneficial?
Chapter 16 Review Questions
- What are the attributes of adaptive immunity?
- What are the 2 types of adaptive immune responses? What cells mediate the 2 responses?
- How does the lymphatic system aid in immunity?
- What is an antigen? What is an exogenous antigen? Endogenous? Autoantigen?
- What is the major function of B cells?
- What is the BCR? What are the characteristics of a BCR?
- What is an antibody? What are they identical to?
- What functions do antibodies do? Explain each function.
- What is an important characteristic of IgM? IgG? IgA? IgE?
- Where are B and T cells typically found?
- What do T cells act primarily against?
- What are the differences between a BCR and a TCR?
- What do cytotoxic T cells do? Helper T cells? Regulatory T cells?
- What membrane proteins are on Tc cells? TH cells? B cells?
- What is the function of CD4? CD8?
- What is the importance of Helper T cells?
- What is clonal deletion?