the Immune System

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Across
  1. 3. a disease producing organism
  2. 9. the first line of defense in the innate immune system; the outer boundary of the body
  3. 10. this term describes cells that engulf or "eat" pathogenic organism or cellular debris
  4. 12. the antibody found in secretions
  5. 14. the defense system that is SPECIFIC and includes the humoral and the cellular immune systems
  6. 15. the effector cell of the humoral immune system
  7. 16. the lymphocyte that will become either a Helper T cell or a cytotoxic T cell
Down
  1. 1. the region on the antibody that changes to match different antigens
  2. 2. the lymphocytes produced for the purpose of recognizing an antigen if it ever appears in the body again later
  3. 4. the branch of the adaptive immune system that involves B cells, plasma cells, and antibodies
  4. 5. the most abundant antibody in plasma, produced in late primary and secondary immune respons
  5. 6. the defense system that is NON-SPECIFIC and includes surface and internal defenses
  6. 7. the number of types of immunoglobulins
  7. 8. the lymphocyte that will become a plasma cell that makes antibodies
  8. 11. the marker recognized by the immune system
  9. 12. a pentamer antibody, produced in the intitial immune response
  10. 13. the letters for "antigen presenting cell"