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Cricks B-Cells

B-Lymphocyte Vocabulary

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What does the B in B lymphocytes stand for? bone (they are made in bone marrow)
What do you call the proteins on the membrane of the b lymphocyte? membrane bound antibodies
What is another name for the membrane bound antibodies? immunoglobulins
What makes membrane bound antibodies unique? they are membrane bound (most antibodies are free floating)
What makes each b-cell different from another? each b-cell has a unique form of membrane bound antibody
What do you call a membrane bound antibody that has a slight structural variation? Variable portion
How do variable portions form? Shuffling of DNA that codes for membrane bound proteins
What is the function of the variable portion? to connect with a virus that the body had not seen.
What is the name of the virus that connects with the variable portion of the b-cell membrane? epitope
Why do B-cells not attack proteins that should be in the body? during the shuffling of the DNA that makes variable portions, the ones that would match beneficial proteins are eliminated
When a b-cell binds to a virus, what happens? activation
When a b-cell is activated, what does it do? clones itself
When a b-cell begins to clone itself, it can differentiate into 2 forms, what are they called? memory cells and effector cells
What do memory cells do? reside in the body, storing the information about the virus
What do effector cells do? mass produce antibodies that attack the virus
What is another name for effector cells? plasma cells
What is the value of a humoral mediated immune system? antibodies produced by b-cells bond to viruses
What to you call the process of attaching antibodies to viruses? opsomization
What is the purpose of opsomizsation? to make the viruses easier for phagocytes to locate and kill
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