ImmuneSystem
1. What is the function of the
immune system?
2. What are the two groups of
defense mechanisms of the
body against foreign or
harmful agents? What is the
difference between them?
3. What is inflammation?
4. How does the inflammation
mechanism work?
5. What is pus?
6. What is the association
between inflammation and
fever?
7. Which type of defense cell
do bacteria attract and cause
to multiply during the
inflammation process? What is
the name given to the waste
material produced by the
inflammation triggered by
bacterial infection?
8. Of which type of defense
cell do worm infections
stimulate the multiplication?
9. Of which type of defense
cell do viral infections
stimulate the multiplication?
10. What is the defense
mechanism that begins to
work when inflammation fails
to stop an infection?
11. What is the difference
between humoral specific
immune response and cellular
specific immune response?
12. What is an antigen?
13. What are the cells
responsible for the production
of antibodies?
14. What are
immunoglobulins?
15. How do antibodies work to
neutralize antigens?
16. How can an organism that
once underwent contact with
an antigen be immunized
against future infections by
the same agent?
17. How can the immune
memory lead to the efficacy of
vaccines and also produce
allergies?
18. How different are the
actions of antibodies against
bacteria and against virus?
Why is the cellular immune
response activated in case of
chronic viral infection?
19. How does the cellular
immune response take place?
20. What are the antigen presenting cells of the
immune system?
21. What are passive and
active immunization?
According to the duration of
the protection how do these
types of immunization differ?
22. Why is maternal milk
important for the immune
protection of the baby?
23. How are antivenoms
produced? Why are
antivenoms an example of
passive immunization?
24. What is the difference
between homologous and
heterologous
immunoglobulins?
25. What are natural active
immunization and artificial
active immunization?
26. Why are vaccines made of
the own disease agent or of
fragments of it?
27. What are the types of
antigenic agents that may
constitute vaccines?
28. Why doesn't a long lasting
vaccine against common cold
exist yet?
29. Why are vaccines used in
the prevention but not in the
treatment of infections? Why
can antivenom serums be
used in prevention and
treatment?
30. What is the DNA vaccine?
31. What is the name given to
conditionsin which the own
immune system of the
individual is the agent of
diseases? What are some
examples of these conditions?