Across
- 3. Type of B cell that actively secretes antibodies
- 4. Edward Jenner coined this term in 1796 after injecting boy with one (material from human cowpox lesion) to make him immune to smallpox, from Latin for cow
- 7. Small accessible part of an antigen that binds to an antigen receptor
- 8. Type of T cell that modulates the immune response
- 10. Type of T cell, "conductor", detects pathogens and activates other immune cells to fight them
- 11. Type of B cell that "records" information to fight pathogen if it returns
- 12. Abbreviation for host proteins displaying antigen fragments on the cell surface
- 15. First recorded attempt was in sixth-century China, breathing in smallpox scab dust
Down
- 1. A B cell before BCR binds to an antigen
- 2. Any immunity obtained by inoculation with selected antigens/parts of a microbe (in some cases, entire microbe)
- 5. Substance that can elicit a response from a B or T cell
- 6. 20-40% of all leukocytes are this type, smallest type, dark round nucleus, little cytoplasm
- 9. 10th century inoculation of smallpox into healthy person's arm
- 13. Type of T cell that directly destroys cells it recognizes, presented by MHC I and express CD8
- 14. Soluble form of BCR that binds to pathogens and mark them for elimination
