Chabner Ch# 14 Mod 5 wk 2 – Flashcards
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Herpes Simplex
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Viral infection causing blisters on skin of lips, nose, or genitals.
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Kaposi sarsoma
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Cancer arising from the lining cells of capillaries, producing bluish-red skin nodules.
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Peumocystic Carinii Pneumonia
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Major lung infection with fever, cough, chest pain and sputum.
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Phagocytose
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To eat up
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Toxoplasmosis
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Protozoan (parasitic)infection associated with AIDS. Produces pneumonitis, hepatitis, and encephalitis.
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Cryptococcosis
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Fungal infection associated with AIDS. Involves brain and meninges, lungs, and skin.
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Atopy
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A hypersensitivity or allergic state.
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Parts of the immune system:
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Lymphocytes (WBC against virus), Monocytes (WBC chronic infections, Phagocytes, Antibodies.
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Lymph node concentration
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Infuinal, Axillary, Mediastinal, Cervical
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Lymph nodes are
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Found through the body and are filters or traps for foreigh particles.
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Humoral Immunity
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B cells, plasna cells, and anitibodies.
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Lymphopoiesis
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Formation of lymph.
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Interstitial fluid
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Found in the spaces between cells and becomes lymph whin it enters bymph capillaries.
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T cells
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Helper or suppressor cells.
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T cells or T lymphocytes
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belong to a group of white blood cells, play a cenral role in cell-mediated immunity.
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T in T cell
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Thymus (resplsible for the T cell maturation)
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Immunoglobulins (IgA, IgG, IgE)
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Antibodies (also nown as immunoglobulins, abreviated Ig), are gamma globulin proteins that are found in blood or other bodily fluids of vertevrates, and are used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects, such as bacteria and viruses.
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Tonsils
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Oropharyngeal lynph tissue
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Thymus
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Mediastinal T cell producer
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Adnoids
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Nasopharyngeal lynph tissue
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Spleen
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Abdominal organ that filters erythro-cytes and activates lymphocytes.
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Spleen Organ
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Remves old red blood cells and holds a reserve of blood in case of hemorrhagic shock while also recycling iron.
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Bone Marrow
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Produces lymphocytes and monocytes and other blood cells. Produces new blooid cells.
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Cytotoxic cells
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T cell lymphocytes, are capable of inducing the death of infected somatic or tumor cells: they kill cells that are infected with viruses (or other pathogens)
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Interferons and Interleukins
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Antiviral proteins produced by T cell lymphocytes.
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Lymphocytosis
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Slight increase in numbers of lymphocytes.
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Toxic
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Pertaining to poison
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CT Scan
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Computerized X-ray imaging in the transverse plane.
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HIV
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The virus that causes AIDS.
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Hodgkin Disease
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Malignant tumor of lymph nodes.
