IMMUNOLOGY PURSUIT General Immunology Specific Response Non Specific Response HIVDefinitions and Acronyms A0 B0 C0 D0 E0

QUESTION What type of immunity is activated when a splinter first enters the body?

ANSWER INNATE or TYPE 1

QUESTION : What is a latent virus?

ANSWER One which remains inactive in the body causing no damage until activated later on.

QUESTION What types of cells produce and hold antibodies?

ANSWER B cells

QUESTION What cells are involved in the Cell- Mediated responses?

ANSWER T Cells

QUESTION What cells have many finger like projections coming from the surface?

ANSWER Dendritic Cells

QUESTION To what structure do antibodies bind?

ANSWER Antigens

BONUS ROLL Free second turn whenever you want if you get the question correct.

BONUS QUESTION What are the two categories of T cells?

BONUS ANSWER Helper T cells and Cytotoxic T Cells

QUESTION : Are antibodies the “good guys” or “bad guys”?

ANSWER Good Guys

QUESTION What cells are involved in the Humoral response?

ANSWER B Cells

QUESTION What are naïve T cells?

ANSWER T cells which have not been activated

QUESTION From what cell do both T and B cells originate from?

ANSWER Hematopoietic Stem Cells

QUESTION What are the 5 characteristics of the inflammatory response?

ANSWER Redness, Heat, Swelling, Pain and decreased mobility

QUESTION What cells release histamines?

ANSWER Histamines

QUESTION What 2 types of cells help to eat or engulf pathogens?

ANSWER Phagocytic cells and Macrophages

QUESTION What types of structures do vaccines help to maintain?

ANSWER Antibodies

QUESTION What cells include antigen presenting cells?

ANSWER Dendritic cells, tissue macrophages and B cells

QUESTION Approximately how many million of people are living with AIDS in 2003?

ANSWER

QUESTION What types of cells are most affected by HIV?

ANSWER HELPER T CELLS

QUESTION What was the most likely means of the HIV virus moving across species boundaries from the simians to humans?

ANSWER Eating monkey meat infected with SIV

QUESTION Name 5 common opportunistic infections.

ANSWER

QUESTION Which cell receptor is primarily involved in HIV?

ANSWER Gp120

DEFINITION Epidemic

ANSWER Spread of many cases of a disease over a large geographic area

DEFINITION TNF

ANSWER Tumor Necrosis Factor

DEFINITION MHC

ANSWER Major Histocompatibility Complex

DEFINITION Processed

ANSWER A protein which has been broken down to smaller pieces (peptides).

DEFINITION Epitope

ANSWER The specific are of an antigen which binds to the antibody