IMMUNE RESPONSE IN BIOCHEMISTRY QUIZ

Which of the following immune cells would have an especially low count in a patient with advanced AIDS?

None of these

B lymphocytes

Killer T lymphocytes

Helper T lymphocyte

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What is a protein produced by host cells infected by viruses?

Interferon

Vaccine

Antiserum

Histamine

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Antibodies bound to an invading microorganism activate the complement system via

metabolic pathway

Embden Meyerhof pathway

classical pathway

Entner-Doudoroff pathway

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To detect a humoral immune response to influenza virus, it is possible to measure

serum antibody titer

dividing T cells in the draining lymph nodes

cytotoxicity of virus-infected cells in tissue culture

plasma cytokine levels

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If a person is vaccinated against a disease sometime in the past, which of the following is currently in your body?

The disease organism itself and antigens for the disease organism

A very high level of antibodies against the disease antigens

All of these

Memory B lymphocytes for the antigen of this disease organism

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To elicit the best antibodies to mouse MHC I, it should be injected into a

mouse of a different strain

rat

mouse of the same genetic background (strain)

goat

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During exposure to a foreign invader, there are more __________ present in the vertebrate body than before exposure

antibodies

macrophages and antigens

lymphocytes

all of these

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Polysaccharides on the surface of infecting microorganisms can also activate complement directly in the absence of

antigen via the alternative pathway

None of these

antibody via metabolic pathway

antibody via the alternative pathway

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The immune response to a booster vaccine is called a(n)

primary response

cellular response

innate response

secondary response

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Immunogenicity

depends on the ability of the native antigen to be presented by MHC

is usually a property of self antigens such as eye tissue

is not a property of haptens

is not a property of antibodies

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