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Rejection of transplanted tissure results how?
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Because the recipient's immune system recognizes that the transplanted tissue is not "self" Cytoxic T cells respond by attacking the cells of the transplanted tissue
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How can Organ rejections be controlled?
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Carefully selecting the organ to be transplanted and administering "immunosuppressive" drugs
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What would they be concerned with having the same as when transplanting an organ
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Same type of MHC (major histocompatibility Complex) antigens because cytotoxic T cells recognize foreign MHC antigens
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What is the use of animal organs instead of human organs called/
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Xenotransplantation
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What condition would a person have if their immune system is unable to protect the body against disease?
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immune defficiency
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In SCID, what type of immunity is lacking or inadequate? How do they treat SCID patients?
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Both antibody-ediated immunity and cell-mediated immunity, Bone marrow transplants and gene therapy
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What is the gene that many Navaho children lack that causes them to suffer the most sever form of SCID? What does SCID stand for? What else do they lack?
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Artemis, severe combined immuno-defficiency disorder, can't repair DNA or develop T and B cells
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What can cause acquired immune deficiencies?
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infections, chemical exposure, or radiation
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What is a result of an infection with the HIV?
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Acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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What type of cells does HIV go after?
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goes after helper T-cells or CD4 cells and opens up a huge window of diseases: fungal infection, cancer, protizoan parasites, intracellular bacteria and intracellular viruses.
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What happens when a persona has an autoimmune disease?
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Cytotoxic T cells or antibodies mistakenly attack the body's own cells as if they bear foriegn antigens.
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What are some examples of autoimmune diseases?
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rheumatic fever and Type 1 diabetes mellitus, and rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, myasthenia gravis, MS
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What causes the symptoms of rheumatoid arthrits?
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recurring inflammation in skeltal joints. Complement proteins, T cells, and B cells all participate in deteriotian of the joints, which eventually become immobile
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What is SLE? What is it's trademark? What causes it?
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Systemic lupus erythematosis Immune response to your own DNA and you have a reaction, butterfly....
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If you see a picture with a butterfly face, what would you say causes the picture?
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Systemic lupus erythematosis, an immune response to your own DNA causes a reaction, has various symptoms prior to death due to kidney damage from the deposistion of excessive antigen-antibody complexes.
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What autoimmune disease would be involved when antibodies attach to and interfere with the functioning of neuromuscular junctions and muscle weakness results?
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Myasthenia gravis
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What happens in Multiple sclerosis?
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autoimmune disease in which T cells attack the myelin sheath of nerve fibers, and this causes various neuromuscular symptoms.
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