PPT-Sex and behaviour: Immune response to parasites

CfE Advanced Higher Biology Unit 2 Organisms and Evolution If you have done Higher Human Biology this is just revision Use the key areas to create revision notes HOMEWORK ACTIVITY G Self Study Task Immune response to parasites. Sreenivas Poonam Salotra Hira L Nakhasi Division of Emerging Transfusion Transmitted Diseases Office of Blood Research Review Center for Biologics Research Review US Food Drug Administration Bethesda USA Institute of Pathology Safdarjung Hospi Immune response to parasites. CfE. . Advanced Higher Biology. Unit . 2: . Organisms and Evolution. If you have done Higher Human Biology this is just revision!!! Use the key areas to create revision notes!. behaviour:. Immune . response . to . parasites. CfE. . Advanced Higher Biology. Unit . 2: . Organisms and Evolution. SQA . mandatory key area. Non-specific . defenses. in mammals: physical barriers, chemical secretions, inflammatory response, phagocytes, natural killer cells destroying abnormal cells. . Unit 2 – Organisms and Evolution. Parasitism. A: Ecological niche and competition. B: Parasite niches. C: Transmission and host behaviour. D: Parasitic life cycles. E: . Immune response to parasites. Immunology. - the study of host defense mechanisms. Immunity. -. ability of the host to protect itself against foreign organisms. Resistance to disease.. Antigen (Ag)- . is a foreign substance that can elicit specific immune response (IR) when is immunogenic. Maria Bleier . PATH 417. Overview. The Case. 10 . yr. old male patient . Ronnie McDonald.. Developed abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea and low grade fever. Physician’s examination: . Asks about history in terms of food consumed – undercooked hamburgers from previous weekend as prime suspect. Parasitism. A: Ecological niche and competition. B: Parasite niches. C: Transmission and host behaviour. D: Parasitic life cycles. E: . Immune response to parasites. F: Challenges in treatment and control. Immune Response. Adaptive Immune. 2. Adaptive or Acquired Immune Response. Protects against infectious agents and abnormal body cells . Amplifies the inflammatory . response. Activates complement. 3. The Immune System. The immune system is a group of cells & soluble molecules, which interact & distinguish patterns in the body as “self” or “non-self,” in order to eliminate those that are “non-self.”. By: Brittaney Luu. The Innate Immune Response. Symptoms. The Physical Barrier. A . keratin plug . is present in non-lactating women to prevent the entry of bacteria created from the stratified squamous epithelium.. 5. th. . Ed. . P.C. Beaver & . R.C. . Jung.. Medical Parasitology. Assistant Professor. Dr. Ahmed A. Mohammed. Medical Parasitology. Introduction and definitions. . . Type of relationships. Immunological unresponsiveness to self is referred to as . tolerance. or . self-tolerance. Very important to human health. How is this achieved?. -cells with receptors for self-antigens are destroyed in the thymus or bone marrow (central tolerance). Dr. Refif S. Al-. Shawk. . Lec. 3. 2021-2022. Parasitic Infections. The term parasite encompasses a vast array of infectious protozoans (unicellular) and metazoans (helminths or worms). . Protozoan. Adaptive . Non-adaptive (. cell injury-----cell death). hypertrophy. Dysplasia. hyperplasia. neoplasia. Atrophy. Degeneration. Metaplasia. Necrosis, apoptosis. & gangrene. Reversible. Reversible* / Irreversible.