Across
- 2. Passage of inflammatory cells and other formed elements in the blood through the endothelial walls of the blood vessel.
- 5. Natural form of host protection; nonspecific and not stimulated by specific antigenic stimuli.
- 9. Stronger, quicker response on subsequent exposure to an immunogen.
- 11. Killing effect or amount of antimicrobial agent required to kill.
- 12. Process of engulfing or ingesting and digesting foreign particles.
Down
- 1. component of gram-negative cell walls; composed of lipid A plus core polysaccharide plus O antigen (O polysaccharide side chain); released on lysis of the cell during infection.
- 3. Condition actually caused by a medical intervention.
- 4. Sequence of reactions that converts glucose into pyruvate, with the concomitant production of a relatively small amount of adenosine triphosphate.
- 6. Toxins secreted by certain bacterial species toxic to leukocytes (e.g., Panton-Valentine produced by Staphylococcus aureus).
- 7. Nonflagellar, sticky, proteinaceous, hairlike appendages that adhere some bacterial cells to each other and to environmental surfaces; plural of fimbria.
- 8. Movement of cells in response to a chemical stimulant.
- 9. Immune response elicited by a specific stimulus from a foreign molecule that causes.
- 10. Protein that is able to direct the migration of a specific cell.