Innate Immunity Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. secreted substances that affect other cells in the immune system
  2. 7. proteins secreted from an infected cell that send a warning to other cells to turn on genes for antiviral proteins
  3. 8. the opening up of blood vessels, which may lead to several outcomes, such as an increased blood flow to damaged tissue in order to speedily repair it
  4. 9. local response in the body that is triggered by infection or other types of tissue damage; can come in acute or chronic forms
  5. 10. after binding to viral and host mRNA, _________ proteins degrade the mRNA to stop the virus from maturing
Down
  1. 1. during an inflammatory response, phagocytes leave the walls of the blood vessel and act upon the damaged tissue to help repair it
  2. 2. plasma proteins produced by the liver that need to be activated in order to fight off antigens/pathogens
  3. 3. after a series of activating C5, C6, C7, etc. in complement activation, a membrane attack complex forms and results in _________
  4. 5. ___________ pathway starts from C3 and can split off into two outcomes, both of which involve C3B's presence in blood or on the surface of a microbe
  5. 6. the process of surrounding the membrane of a microbe with opsonins in order to run phagocytosis more efficiently