IMMUNOLOGY

OVERVIEW OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

THE GOOD BAD AND UGLY OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What do memory cells do?
A
Kills the virus
B
Eats the virus
C
Patrol the area and make the immune system work faster next time.
D
Makes antibodies
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Immunological memory is a unique property of the immune system as it can “store” information about a stimulus and can mount an effective response when the stimulus is encountered again. This response – a secondary immune response – is quicker and stronger than the primary response.

Detailed explanation-2: -Their function is to memorize the characteristics of the antigen that activated their parent B cell during initial infection such that if the memory B cell later encounters the same antigen, it triggers an accelerated and robust secondary immune response.

Detailed explanation-3: -Memory immune responses Because our memory cells are “experienced, ‘’ we will respond to a second (or subsequent) encounter more quickly. Whereas in a primary encounter, antibodies are not generated for several days, during a memory response antibodies appear in just a few days.

Detailed explanation-4: -The adaptive immune system has the capacity to ‘remember’ previous antigens, a process termed immunological memory. Antigen-specific T cells are selected during a primary immune response and expand to produce clones of T cells with high specificity for the activating antigen.

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