Across
- 4. secreted substances that affect other cells in the immune system
- 7. proteins secreted from an infected cell that send a warning to other cells to turn on genes for antiviral proteins
- 8. the opening up of blood vessels, which may lead to several outcomes, such as an increased blood flow to damaged tissue in order to speedily repair it
- 9. local response in the body that is triggered by infection or other types of tissue damage; can come in acute or chronic forms
- 10. after binding to viral and host mRNA, _________ proteins degrade the mRNA to stop the virus from maturing
Down
- 1. during an inflammatory response, phagocytes leave the walls of the blood vessel and act upon the damaged tissue to help repair it
- 2. plasma proteins produced by the liver that need to be activated in order to fight off antigens/pathogens
- 3. after a series of activating C5, C6, C7, etc. in complement activation, a membrane attack complex forms and results in _________
- 5. ___________ pathway starts from C3 and can split off into two outcomes, both of which involve C3B's presence in blood or on the surface of a microbe
- 6. the process of surrounding the membrane of a microbe with opsonins in order to run phagocytosis more efficiently