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What is the system of cells created in the bone marrow that protects us from foreign invaders that cause disease?

What term describes anything that causes disease by killing cells?

What is any molecule that triggers an immune response called?

What is the colorless fluid containing white blood cells that bathes tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream?

What is an organ of the immune system located along a lymph vessel?

What are the primary and secondary lymphoid organs?

What type of immunity is present in an animal before exposure to pathogens and includes barriers, phagocytic cells, and natural killer cells?

What is the ability to recognize and remember specific antigens and mount an attack on them called?

What type of immunity uses antibodies produced by another person to protect an individual against infectious disease?

What type of immunity is conferred by recovering from an infectious disease or by receiving a vaccine?

What are the innate immune cells capable of engulfing and absorbing bacteria and other small cells and particles called?

What is the large, phagocytic white blood cell that functions in innate immunity by destroying microbes and in adaptive immunity as an antigen presenting cell?

What is the most abundant type of white blood cell that functions in innate immunity as a type of phagocytic white blood cell?

What organ is primarily responsible for the production and maturation of immune cells located in the chest between the lungs?

What is the soft tissue inside the bone that produces blood cells and releases them into the bloodstream when they are mature?

What type of lymphocyte, when activated, secretes stimulatory signals that promote the response of B cells and cytotoxic T cells to antigens?

What type of lymphocyte attacks body cells infected with pathogens?

What cell type provides an innate immune response by attacking cancer cells and infected body cells, especially those harboring viruses?

What is the lymphocyte that can suppress antibody production by other lymphoid cells, keeping the immune system from being overactive?

What is the long-lived immune cell that has the ability to recognize a foreign particle that it previously encountered?

What are the differentiated B-lymphocyte white blood cells that release antibodies in response to antigens?

What is the blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen?

What are the distinct plasma proteins that react with one another to opsonize pathogens and induce inflammatory responses?

What are the small proteins crucial in controlling the growth and activity of other immune system cells and blood cells?

What is the innate defensive protein produced by virus-infected vertebrate cells that helps other cells resist viruses?

What is the chemical alarm signal released by mast cells that causes blood vessels to dilate and become more permeable in inflammatory responses?

What is the major histocompatibility complex that alerts T cells that a cell is infected with a virus?

What is the initial adaptive immune response to an antigen, which appears after a lag of about 10-17 days?

What is the adaptive immune response elicited when an animal encounters the same antigen at a later time, characterized by a more rapid and stronger response?

What is the process by which a vaccine induces a primary immune response that produces memory cells, leading to a rapid and strong secondary response upon encountering the actual pathogen?

What is the retrovirus that attacks the human immune system and causes AIDS, characterized by a reduced number of T cells and opportunistic infections?

What is the condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks itself, targeting the cells, tissues, and organs of a person's own body?

What is the disorder of the immune system caused by an abnormally high sensitivity to an antigen, with symptoms triggered by histamines?

What is the extreme, often life-threatening allergic reaction to an antigen to which the body has become hypersensitive?

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