Zusammenfassung der Ressource
B3 - Infection & Response
- Microbes
- Bacteria
- Gonorrheoa - an STD passed on by unprotected sex
- Salmonella - food poisoning. Toxins in the bacteria make a person ill
- Fungi
- the largest microorganism
- Some fungi spoil foods and can cause illness
- fungi are a good source of protein and make wine, beer, bread and blue chees
- Rose Black Spot
- Ca
- Virus
- Tobacco mosaic Virus (TMV)
- HIV
- Attacks white blood cells, preventing the body from defending itself from other pathogens
- Pathogen - causes disease
- External Body Defenses
- Tears
- Dissolve microbes
- Ear wax
- Traps microbes
- Mucus
- traps and kill bacteria
- stomach acid
- Kills microbes we eat
- Internal Body defences
- White blood cells
- Phagocytes
- these engulf microbes
and destroy them
- Memory white
blood cells
- Produce antibodies to
attach to microbes
- the antibodies clump the
microbes together
- These remember how to make
antibodies quickly if the same
microbe infects
- Medicine
- Vaccination
- Antibiotics
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Painkillers
- Drug Testing
- Cells and tissue
- Animals
- Healthy volunteers
- Patients in a double blind test with a placebo
- A placebo is a pill with does nothing
- A double blind test is a test where
neither the patient nor the doctor
giving the pill knows which is the drug
or the placebo
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Pathogen injected into a mouse
- Lymphocytes harvested
- Joined with a tumour cell to make a hybridoma
- Hybridoma reproduces rapidly and produces many antibodies
- Antibodies are collected and given to treat disease