What is meant by autoimmunity? b) Why are chemotherapy drugs sometimes used to treat autoimmune diseases?

Q: For identical twins, if one of them develops the autoimmune disorder because of genetic reason, does…

A: Identical twins are always of same-sex, blood type and share all of their genes as they receive…

Q: What is the function of the MHC antigens?

A: MHC stands for Major Histocompatibility Complex.

Q: What is the basis of immunological memory?

A: Definition :- Immunological memory refers to the ability of B and T cells to produce long - lived…

Q: What are autoimmune diseases? Give two examples?

A: The complex network of proteins and cells that protects the body against infection is called the…

Q: What is Immunoprecipitation?

A: Immunoprecipitation is a technique that is used to isolate a specific protein complex from a…

Q: What is the purpose of using a secondary antibody?

A: Antibodies are the sites where antigen binding occurs on the surfaces of B- cell or membrane,…

Q: Is Crohn's disease considered as an autoimmune disease. If it is, are there other predisposing…

A: Chron's disease and it's linkage

Q: Describe four major types of autoimmunity, comparing targetorgans and symptoms.

A: Autoimmune diseases are those disorders in which the body is attacked by its immune system…

Q: Which subtype of T cells is destroyed by the HIV virus?

A: HIV or the human immunodeficiency viruses is a type of Lentivirus (a subgroup of the retrovirus,…

Q: A potential cause of acquired autoimmunity is ________. a. tissue hypersensitivity b. molecular…

A: Autoimmunity can be defined as the immune response of organism against their own healthy tissues.So…

Q: What is the defective immune response characteristic of AIDS?

A: Introduction   Viral infections are very harmful for mankind. In the post century where we faced the…

Q: What is Delayed hypersensitivity?

A: Hypersensitivity refers to undesirable reactions created by the conventional immune system, as well…

Q: What is the difference between active and passive immunity? What is vaccination?

A: Immunity is the potential of multicellular organisms to resist the dangerous microorganisms.Immunity…

Q: Define autoimmunity, and explain some possible causes.

A: Immunity is defined as the ability of an organism to prevent the entry of harmful microbes in the…

Q: How does an autoimmune disease develop?

A: Ans: Autoimmune disease: it is a disease in which our own immune system is active against self…

Q: What is Passive Immunity ? When does it occur ?

A: When ready made antibodies or directly given to protect the body against foreign agent so to provide…

Q: Does HIV Infect All White Blood Cells?

A: STI is the abbreviated form for sexually transmitted infections, these are infection which are…

Q: What are the attributes of immunoglobulins produced by multiple myeloma.  Do they help the immune…

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Q: Explain two pieces of evidence that exist that some self-reactive lymphocytes in the immune system…

A: Introduction Lymphocytes are one of the types of white blood cells in our body. White blood cell or…

Q: Is, what is an autoimmune disease?

A: autoimmune disease :- it is a condition in which human's immune system mistakenly attacks the body.…

Q: How does HIV, which at first glance does not appear to be a highly formidable foe, persist in the…

A: HIV, stands for human immunodeficiency virus, is a virus that destructs the immune system that…

Q: How does the cellularimmune response take place?

A: Cellular Immunity Cellular immunity is an immune mechanism that involves in activation of…

Q: ow does clonal selection hypothesis relate to autoimmune responses?

A: The immunological response of the body against its own cells and tissues is referred to as an…

Q: What are CD4 lymphocytes? What is the relationship between these cells and HIV? How does HIV…

A: CD4 cells are T helper lymphocytes with receptor proteins on their plasma membrane. CD4 is the…

Q: Why are MHC proteins so highly variable?

A: Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are a group of genes that code for proteins found on the…

Q: Why is the stem cell system important to hematopoiesis?

A: Stem cell Stem cells provide new cells for body growth, damage or replace. Stems cells are found in…

Q: Why is HIV so deadly and so hard to stop?

A: Human Immuno (HIV) viruses are considered retroviruses, which has the single (Ss) stranded RNA in…

Q: How do foreignness, size, and complexity contribute to antigenicity?

A: An antigen can be defined as a foreign substance or a toxic material that stimulates an immune…

Q: Why do certain drugs become immunogenic to the host?

A: Introduction :- Immunogenicity, which is defined as a cell or tissue's capacity to elicit an immune…

Q: What is vaccination? What type of immunity is provided by vaccination?

A: Immunity is the balanced state of multicellular organisms having adequate biological defenses to…

Q: what is a “cytokine storm”?

A: The term "cytokine" is made up of two terms - cyto meaning cell and kine meaning signaling.…

Q: Can you explain the passive and active immunities?

A: The ability of the body to protect itself from foreign bodies, like, bacteria, toxic substances, and…

Q: What are autoimmune diseases?

A: The complex network of proteins and cells that protects the body against infection is called the…

Q: What is active immunty?

A: The science which involves the study of immune system is termed as immunology.

Q: Why are the genes that encode these antigens so variable?

A: Immunity can be defined as the presence of different components involved in different mechanisms for…

Q: What are the types of  Vaccines?

A: A vaccination is a biological preparation that gives people active acquired immunity against a…

Q: What is the difference between nonspecific host defenses and immuneresponses?

A: The immune system is one of the defined organ systems of the body that serves the function of…

Q: What are the Immunologic mechanisms?

A: Immunologic mechanisms are molecular or cellular regulatory mechanisms.

Q: What does the flu shot protect against? Why do you need to get a new flu shot every year for…

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Q: Nowadays, in the clinical field of cancer vaccines, is there a potential to eliciting autoimmune…

A: Immune system is the system of body who provide protection by the pathogenic microorganisms

Q: What evidence led Emil von Behring to discover antibodies and the complement system in 1905?

A: Antibodies, also known as immunoglobulins, are protein molecules produced by the body's immune…

Q: What is opsonization? What is the role of antibodies in this process?

A: When the immune system recognizes foreign antigen enters in the body, complement activation occurs.…

Q: What is clonal selection?

A: In the human body, the antibodies along with the other immune cells help to fight against foreign…

Q: Why is the development of recurrent or unusual infections the clinical hallmark of immunodeficiency?

A: Introduction :- The immune system's components, such as lymphocytes, phagocytes, and the complement…

Q: What is an immunization?

A: Immunity is a term used to describe a complex organism's ability to combat harmful pathogens.…

Q: Define autoimmunity

A: The presence of antibodies against a disease in a person's system confers immunity to that sickness.…

Q: Why are immunosuppressed individuals given antifungal agents?

A: 'Immunocompromised' refers to a weak immune system that is not functioning properly.

Q: What are the functions of Helper T cell markers?

A: Answer: Introduction: The T helper cells (TH cells), also called as CD4+ cells, it is a type T cell…

Q: What is the function of the MHC antigens? Why are the genes that encode these antigens so variable?

A: Immunity can be defined as the presence of different components involved in different mechanisms for…