bios 254 lecture midterm ch. 16 lecture

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bios 254 lecture midterm ch. 16 lecture assignment

• Heart valve cells can be damaged through

–Answer autoimmunity

• Which of the following is not a mechanical barrier against microorganisms?-

–Answer diarrhea

• A transplant recipient's body rejects a transplanted organ because her

does not match that of the donor closely enough.–Answer major histocompati- bility complex

• Marsha gets a splinter in her finger. What is her body's response to any microbe that might

try to enter her body as a result of the splinter breaking the skin?–Answer innate defense

• Henry has a cut on his thigh that becomes infected. The lymph nodes in his

enlarge.–Answer inguinal region

• The region of a lymph node through which blood vessels and nerves pass is called the

–Answer hilum

• The supratrochlear lymph nodes are located near the

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elbow

• The structure of a lymphatic vessel is most similar to that of a(n)

–Answer vein

• A drug based on a monoclonal antibody differs from the immune response in that

–Answer all of the antibodies descend from one B lymphocyte.

• The formation of lymph increases as a result of

–Answer increasing hydrostatic pressure in tissue fluid.

• The lymph nodes of the axillary region receive lymph mainly from the

–Answer up- per limb and mammary gland.

• Stephanie has her cancerous right breast removed, and the surgeon also removes lymph

nodes in the axillary region, to prevent spread of the cancer. As a result, Stephanie's right arm –Answer becomes edematous

• Which of the following is part of the adaptive immune response?

–Answer produc- tion of antibodies

• Interferon is a group of hormonelike peptides that cells produce in re- sponse to

–Answer viruses

• Which of the following is an autoimmune disease?

–Answer juvenile hreumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus

• After lymph leaves the collecting ducts, it enters and becomes

part of the .

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