Immune system

\What are the advantages of having both an immune and an inflammatory system of defense? The benefit of both of these systems is that they are helpful to fight against invaders in the body like infections. The inflammatory system helps our pain fibers to be stimulated. This can determine the area that need proper care to. As for the immune system it creates a homeostatic environment that works against invaders in the body. Also reacts if our own cells decide to harm our own tissues. It can also…

Stress affects the immune system in two ways, physically and psychologically. One question you might ask yourself is, how does the body remain in good condition in response to physical and/or psychological stress? Looking at the immune system and its organs, “it contains billions of immune functioning cells’(HPC). The peripheral immune system protects the blood, lymph nodes, and spleen, while the endocrine system assists the Central Nervous System by producing hormones; and releasing the…

The body is a complex organism, which is composed of systems that work together to maintain homeostasis. The immune and lymphatic system is one of the systems that protect the body from disease-causing bacteria, viruses and organisms. There are two ways that they fight and protect the body from disease, nonspecific and specific. Nonspecific is how the body generally fights off diseases. This includes fever and the swelling of your lymph nodes. Specific immunity is how the body protects itself…

The body’s natural protection mechanism against infection from pathogen is not as effective as it can be, especially for individuals that have compromised immune response. The body’s immune response system has an essential resistance and adaptive immunity as its first line of defense. When the front-line defense (innate) immunity fails to protect the body against microbial pathogens the second line of defense (adaptive) which is more specific is activated (H. ,2012, September 11). The innate…

CELLS The immune system is a complex network of cells and chemicals. It's mission is to protect us against foreign organisms and substances. The cells in the immune system have the ability to recognize something as either "self" or "invader" and they try to get rid of anything that is an invader many different kind of cells , and hundreds of different chemicals , must be coordinated for the immune system to function smoothly. Recent scientific advances in human stem cell research have…

The immune system is incredibly intricate. The first barrier of the system is your skin. After entering the body, the bacteria doubles their number every twenty minutes. When they reach a certain population, bacteria will start damaging the body by changing the environment surrounding them, which triggers the immune system to counter the attack. Macrophages, Neutrophils, Dendritic cells, and T-cells all play crucial roles in saving the body from the bacteria. Macrophages have the ability to…

purpose of the immune system is to defend the body against any foreign invaders that might do the body harm by using a series of immune responses to prevent the entry or survival of any foreign body. The human immune system uses three types of responses: barriers, nonspecific defenses, and specific defenses. Barriers and nonspecific defenses are innate or rather they are the defenses humans are born with while specific defenses are acquired throughout our lifetime. The immune system is also…

The system produces a number of substances include cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) such as defensins, bacteriolytic enzymes such as lysozyme etc. The production of these substances ensures that the microorganisms are destroyed before they get an opportunity to cause infections [4]. However, S. aureus has developed mechanisms, which enhance the evasion of the host immune system. The host’s body produces effector proteins after microbial invasion; nevertheless, S. aureus produces molecules…

virus, a serious virus that spreads through the body and attacks the immune system. The virus specifically attacks the T cells (CD4 cells) of the body. This making it so the immune system is no longer able to fight off infections and diseases as the amount of T cells decreases to an amount below the average 700 to 1500 cells/mm. (Center for Disease Control, 2015, para. 1) Once the body loses so many T cells and damages the immune system so much, the HIV infection will progress to…

The human body has a protection system called the immune system to fight off pathogens. The immune system uses two different types of immunity to defend the body against pathogens; they are the innate and adaptive immunity response systems. Working as frontline providers, we must be able to identify and treat different types of disorders and diseases. The active immunity is an important part of the immune system because it protects the body from infectious diseases agent that is mediated by B-…