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Immunity
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The body's ability to resist and fight infection
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Innate Immunity
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Set of inborn, general defenses against infection
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Adaptive Immunity
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In vertebrates, set of immune defenses that can be tailored to specific pathogens encountered by an organism during its lifetime.
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Antigen
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A molecule or particle that the immune system recognizes as nonself. Triggers an immune response
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Cytokines
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Signaling molecules secreted by vertebrate white blood cells
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Leucocytes
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Cells of the immune system that defend the body against various infectious diseases and foreign materials.
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Phagocytes
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A cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms.A type of cell that is capable of phagocytosis and may also discriminate between certain materials that it breaks down
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Lymphocytes
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White blood cells that fight infection and disease.
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B Cells
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B lymphocyte. Lymphocyte that can make antibodies.
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T Cells
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T lymphocyte. Lymphocyte central to adaptive immunity; some kinds target infected or cancerous body cells
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Cytotoxic T Cells
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Lymphocyte that kills infected or cancerous cells.
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NK Cells
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Natural killer cell. Lymphocyte that can kill cancer cells undetectable by cytotoxic T cells
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Fever
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An internally induced rise in core body temperature above the normal set point as a response to infection or injury
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Inflammation
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A local response to tissue damage or infection; characterized by redness, warmth, swelling, and pain
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Antibody
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Y-shaped antigen receptor protein made only by B cells
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B Cell Receptors
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Membrane-bound antibody on a B cell
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T Cell Receptors
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Antigen receptor on the surface of a T cel
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MHC markers
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Self-proteins on the surface of human body cell
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HIV
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Retrovirus that causes AIDS
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AIDS
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome. A secondary immune deficiency that develops as the result of infection by the HIV virus
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