Innate Immunity

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Discuss innate immunity. Provide a through overview of the first, second and third line pf defense; physical, mechanical and biochemical barriers; epithelial cells, mast cells, and lymphocytes. What is innate immunity? Innate immunity is a human defense mechanisms that the body acquire at birth to fight off infections and help out with the healing process when the body in injured. The first line of defense consists of barriers on the surface of the skin, which is nothing but normal flora of the body. This enables the body to fight off infections. The second line of defense consists of inflammation at the site of injury or infection. During this line of defense job is to stop the injury from spreading to other tissues. This line of …show more content…

Signs and symptoms of an acute inflammation attack are pain, swelling, heat and redness. During a systemic acute attack the signs and symptoms differ to fever, increase in white blood cells and an increase in the number of plasma proteins. Chronic is inflammation that last longer than two weeks no matter what the cause may be for the inflammation. Chronic inflammation is a result of the acute inflammation unable to get rid of the microorganism by the macrophages and lymphocytes. The body keeps sending more macrophage and lymphocytes as they die off adding to the pus at the site of injury. Discuss the classes of Immunoglobin. Compare and contrast Humoral and Cell mediated immunity. What is a Cell Mediated immune response (include T-cell recognition, T-lymphocytes function, and …show more content…

There are fewer levels on immunoglobins or totally absent immunoglobins. An example is a IgA deficiency this deficiency produces other immunoglobins but not IgA which leads to an allergen uptake and promote challenges for the immune system. Another example is the Bruton aggammoglobulhemia which is blocked development of mature b cells in the tissue. T lymphocyte is also considered failure to thrive which means that there is no growth. This deficiency is a defect in the development and function of the cell mediated immunity with antibody production diminished. An example would be chronic mucosoutenaus candidiasis when a t- cell cannot respond to a infection agent. In the DiGeorge Syndrome there is a a partial or lack of the thymus making the production of T- cells very low or none at all. Discuss the role of the immune system The role of the immune system is to try to maintain the bodies at a state where there are no injuries and foreign antibodies that enter the body. When one system fails it always has a backup and it continue to fight until it is at the point where it cannot fight any longer. The main job of the immune system is to keep the good things and the bad out by sending signals if something does not look right for something to go check it out. What is the concept of

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