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Part 1: Innate Defenses Surface Barriers: Skin and Mucosae 1. Describe surface membrane barriers and their protective functions. Internal Innate Defenses: Cells and Chemicals 2. Explain the importance of phagocytosis and natural killer cells in innate body defense. 3. Describe the inflammatory process. 4. Name the body’s antimicrobial substances and describe their function. 5. Explain how fever helps protect the body. Part 2: Adaptive Defenses Antigens 6. Define antigen and describe how antigens affect the adaptive defenses. Cells of the Adaptive Immune System: An Overview 7. Compare and contrast the origin, maturation process, and general function of B and T lymphocytes. 9. Name several antigen-presenting cells and describe their roles in adaptive defenses. Humoral Immune Response 10. Define humoral immunity. 11. Describe the process of clonal selection of a B cell. 12. Recount the roles of plasma cells and memory cells in humoral immunity. 13. Compare and contrast active and passive humoral immunity. 14. Describe the structure of an antibody monomer, and name the five classes of antibodies. 15. Explain the function(s) of antibodies and describe clinical uses of monoclonal antibodies. Cellular Immune Response 16. Define cellular immunity and describe the process of activation and clonal selection of T cells. 17. Describe the roles of different types of T cells. 18. Describe T cell functions in the body.
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Recommended – Chapter 5: Marieb (2013) Human Anatomy and Physiology 9 th
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