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exam notes 120 un 4b
internal medicine
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| three main goals of immune system | protect body from disease causing invaders - remove dead or damaged cells - recognise adnormal cells |
| Three faults of the immune system | incorrect respose - over react response - lack of response |
| autoimmune disease | your immune system atacks healthy cells in your body by mistake - lupis, arthritis, multiple scterosis |
| vaccinations | polio, measles, mumps, rubella |
| primary / secondary | immune response occuring on the first exposure to a foreign material - a rapid production of antibodies in response to an agnitigen in an individual who has been previously exposed to the sam antigen |
| plasma / memory | b cell splits to plasma and memory plasma secretes antibodies memory delay reaction |