Across
- 6. host immune defense against microbes in the first few hours or days after infection
- 7. immunologically inexperienced
- 9. a study of the cellular and molecular events that occur after an organism encounters microbes and other foreign molecules
- 12. immunologic unresponsiveness
- 13. a process that involves recruitment of phagocytes and leukocytes to destroy the microbes
- 16. cells that mediate the adaptive immune response
- 17. protection from disease
- 18. cells that mediate the ultimate effect of the immune response
Down
- 1. the theory proposed by Paul Ehrlich
- 2. cytokines that regulate cell migration and movement
- 3. molecules secreted by the humoral immune system
- 4. a molecular entity that is recognized by the immune system
- 5. immunity achieved by transferring antibodies from an immunized individual to an unimmunized person
- 8. response, collective and coordinated response to the introduction of foreign substances
- 10. a process that enhances phagocytosis by coating the pathogen
- 11. the ability of the lymphocyte repertoire to recognize a very large number of antigens
- 14. host immune defense develops as a response to infection and adapts to infection
- 15. part of a complex antigen that specifically is recognized by lymphocytes
