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What is the complement system composed of?
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composed of a # of blood plasma proteins (nine major ones) designated by the letter C and a subscript
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What is the purpose of the complement system? How?
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amplifying the inflammatory response, certain complement proteins can bind to mast cells and trigger histamine release, others attract phagocytes, some bind to the surface of pathogens already coated with antibodies, and certain complemtent proteins join to form the membrane attack complex
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What is the term for what is resonsible for binding to the surface of pathogens already coated with antibodies and ensure that the pathogens will be phagocytized?
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opsonin
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When are the 9 complement proteins activated?
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When you have proper antigen antibody complex
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Why do cells burst in a transfusion reaction?
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Complement system activates 9 complement proteins to assemble and form a membrane attack complex which punch a hole and twist open. Fluid rushes in and bacterial cell LYSE
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The classical complement pathway is activated by what?
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Antigen antibody complex (like a trigger) and cause cytolysis of a cancer cell/foreign bacteria, whatever
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What are proteins produced by virus-infected cells as a warning to noninfected cells in the area?
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interferon
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What happens when a cell is infected with a virus?
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They will make a chemical messenger (cytokine) released by the viral infected cell and goes to uninfected cell and tells them to make a protetective anti-viral protein
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Hepatitis C will use what agent manufactured in the ER of Red bone marrow?
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Interferons
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If a cell is infected with a virus, what kind of defense will they use?
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Nonspecific (innate defense)
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