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What are four types of nonspecific immune defenses in humans? |
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What role do physical and anatomical barriers play in defending bodies from microorganisms? What are some examples? |
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What are the physiological barriers of nonspecific immunity? |
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Describe the inflammatory response. |
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What is the role of antigen-antibody reactions in specific immunity? |
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Distinguish between humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity. |
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What is autoimmunity and what are some possible causes? |
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What conditions may bring about immunodeficiency? |
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What characterizes patients with immunodeficiency? |
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What distinguishes immediate hypersensitivity and delayed hypersensitivity? |
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How do sensitivity and specificity relate to accuracy? |
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For each of the following types of immunology tests, describe the reaction that occurs and give an example of a disease or condition that is diagnosed with that type of test: a. ELISA, b. precipitin reaction, c. agglutinin reaction, d. lysin reaction. |
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How are immune reactions measured quantitatively? |
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Discuss quality control in immunology testing in POLs. |
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Describe the ABO blood group, including all of the antigens and blood types. |
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Which ABO blood types may donate to which types? |
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Describe the Rhesus blood group and blood types. |
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What Rhesus blood types can be received by an Rh-positive patient? By an Rh-negative patient? |
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When and why does hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) occur? |
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List four diseases or conditions that are tested by immunological methods. |
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Why is blood typed for Rh in POLs? |
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What causes the color reaction in an ELISA test? |
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What is the most common sexually transmitted disease? |
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