Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Adaptive Immunity
- ability to recognize, respond to, and remember a particular substance.
- Types
- Humoral or Antibody-mediated: B cells
- Cell mediated: T cells
- Stimulants
- Antigens: large molecules
- foreign: from outside
- bacteria and viruses that cause disease
- self-antigens: produced by body
response to self and non-self
- response: auto immune diseases
- Haptens
- small molecules which combine with large proteins
and produce adaptive immune response.