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An immune system is a collection of mechanisms within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and killing pathogens and tumor cells. It detects a wide variety of agents, from viruses to parasitic worms, and needs to distinguish them from the organism's own healthy cells and tissues in order to function properly. Detection is complicated as pathogens adapt and evolve new ways to successfully infect the host organism. To...


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How are immune responses to a pathogen distinguished from auto-immune disease?
e.g. some types of arthritis compared to Lyme Disease, Thyroid Eye or an immune response...

The immune system protects an organism from infection by identifying and then killing pathogens. This task is extremely difficult, since pathogens range from viruses to parasitic worms and these diverse...

Asked by Perseus - 23 months ago

Aglutiation in humoral immune responses is crried out by what?
Macrophages, antibodies, t lymphocytes, or b lymphocytes. I believe it's antibodies but am not sure. ...

It's antibodies. We just finished going over this in my medical micro class. For the record the antibody IgM is the best at agglutination.

Asked by hollabackgirl147 - 10 months ago

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    The immune response is how your body recognizes and defends against potentially harmful substances. Learn about the immune response functions and information.

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