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Innate immunity |
Fast, nonspecific, includes physical and chemical barriers, and response with phagocytosis |
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Adaptive immunity |
Slow, highly specific, has memory, barriers are humeral and cellular, requires a lot of energy |
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Innate immunity can be activated by |
TLRs |
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Where is keratin made |
Stratum granulosum |
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Mucus membrane |
Inhibits microorganisms, lines gastrointestinal, respiratory and urogenital tracts |
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Lacrimal apparatus |
Washes microorganisms away |
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First line of defense includes |
Saliva, hair in nose, epiglottis, urine, vaginal secretions, defecation, vomiting |
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Mucociliary layer |
Propel dust etc trapped in mucus up the throat |
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Chemical factors |
Perspiration, lysozyme, gastric juice |
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Lysozyme |
Enzyme capable of breaking down peptidoglycan in bacterial cell walls |
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Differential white blood cell count |
Calculation of the percent of each kind of white blood cell present |
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Leukocytosis |
Leukocytes increase in the presence of infection |
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Leukopenia |
Decrease in number of leukocytes |
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Granulocytes |
Have large granules in cytoplasm |
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Agranulocytes |
Granules that are not visible |
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Neutrophils |
Highly phagocytic and motile, in initial stage of infection |
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Basophils |
Stain blue, call the shots |
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Eosinophils |
Deal with parasites, cause allergies |
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Monocytes |
Precursor of the macrophage, only when they leave the blood |
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NK cells |
Attack any abnormal body cell |
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Perforin |
Creates a pore |
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Granzyme |
Goes into cell and kills it |
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Agranulocytes |
T and B cells, adaptive immunity |
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TLRs |
How phagocytes know what to attack |
