Innate Immunity Crossword
Across
- 2. When a microbe is prepared for phagocytosis by coating it with complement proteins and antibodies.
- 4. Class of white blood cells that can perform phagocytosis of pathogens.
- 5. Immune response to remove and repair tissue that has been injured. Symptoms can include redness, pain, swelling, heat, and sometimes loss of function.
- 7. _____-_____ Type of biological response to disease, focused quickly responding without a memory aspect or recognition of specific pathogens.
- 8. Cell formed from monocytes in the blood maturing and entering the body's tissues.
- 9. Inflammation which source is difficult to remove, which results in frequent episodes that are often less intense than the acute type of inflammation.
- 10. Consists of predominantly T-cells and B-cells, and does not play a major role in innate immunity. Having a blood concentration of <25% is considered low, and >35% is considered high.
- 12. Type of defense which mostly involves white blood cells.
Down
- 1. Second stage of inflammation, which follows after a brief period of restricted blood flow to the injury site.
- 3. Largest leukocyte which matures in the blood into two possible cells. Having over 10% blood concentration is considered high and under 2% is considered low.
- 4. the recognition, ingesting, digesting, then the destruction of pathogenic or foreign particles.
- 6. short-lived white blood cells that are active early on in the immune response. Having >80% blood concentration of these is considered high, while <40% is considered low.
- 11. the most important of the active complement proteins. All pathways involve splitting this complement protein.