Innate Immunity Review
Terms
White blood cell
Eosinophil
Neutrophil
Basophil
Lymphocyte (B and T)
Monocyte
Complement
MAC
ROS
Dendritic cells
Mucus
AMPs
PAMPs
Opsonization
Phagocytosis
Lysosome
phagosome
Concepts:
1. What is sickness behavior and how is it beneficial?
2. How does fever help the body with a systemic infection? Please name and explain at least two
benefits that fever provides the host.
3. What features of the skin help to prevent infection?
4. Where are the major mucus membranes of the body? What defense do mucus membranes have
against infection?
5. What is inflammation? Why is it beneficial when infections are present?
6. How do macrophages (monocytes) find their way to an area of infected tissue?
7. What is a differential hemocyte count (WBC count) and what can it tell you?
8. What events take place during phagocytosis?
9. What happens when a foreign invader is too large to phagocytose?
10. How does your body recognize pathogens in the first place?