Across
- 4. Key player in the adaptive immune response, each kind produces specific antibodies for an antigen.
- 6. Membranes that line any body cavity opening to the outside world.
- 9. White blood cells that destroy infected body cells.
- 10. Larger phagocytes that can engulf invaders over and over again.
- 11. Specific protein designed to counteract a particular antigen.
- 12. Any toxin or other foreign substance which induces an immune response in the body.
Down
- 1. Secondary B cells that remember a specific antigen to more quickly kill it off in the future.
- 2. White blood cells that self-destruct after phagocytosis or eating foreign invaders.
- 3. Introducing a weak version of a pathogen to the body in order to stimulate an adaptive immune response.
- 5. Protective barrier that is your body's first line of defense.
- 7. Process by which damaged tissue triggers release of immune cells and healing.
- 8. Increase in body temperature to speed healing and kill invaders.