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| A cell type that is capable of becoming a variety of different cell types |
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| A committed stem cell that will produce a cell type |
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| Substances that regulate cellular activities by acting as chemical messengers among cells |
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| Colony-stimulating factors |
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| A group of cytokines that stimulate pluriptent stem cells to produce a cell type |
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| A colony stimulating cytokine secreted by th kidney to stimulate red blood cell production |
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| A colony stimulating cytokine secreted by the liver and kidneys to stimulate red blood cell production |
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| Disrupts viral replication |
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| Multiple cytokines 1 - 18 that conduct immune system modulation in angiogenesis, inflammation, and creation of c-reactive protein |
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| Cytokines produced by activate macrophages. TNF alpha associated with debilitation and with loss in clients with cancer. TNF beta is also called lymphotoxin |
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| Colorless weakly motile cells originating from stem cells and differentiating in lymphoid tissue |
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| Immunity that the organism developed buy the immune system in response to environmental antigen |
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| Process by which anibodies are formed |
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| Process by which antibodies are formed by another person or animal and transferred to the host |
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| Substances that initiate immune responses |
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| Substances produced by immune system after exposure to antigen |
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| Proteins that interact with specific antigens that assists information of antigen-antibody complexes and opsonization |
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| Stop the immune response when antigen is destroyed |
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| Secrete interleukin 2 that assists the T-cell to bind to the antigen. Theses cells form holes in target cell membranes. Are especially lethal to viruses |
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| Lymphocytes that secrete antibodies |
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| Granulocytes that occur especially in connective tissue and has basophilic granules containing substances (as histamine or heparin) which mediate allergic reactions |
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| Thermolabile group of proteins in a normal blood serum and plasma that work along side antibodies to destroy antigens |
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| Process by which lymphocytes leave the bloodstream and move into the injured or inflamed tissue |
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| Biological response modifiers |
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| Medications that either enhance or restrict immune responses to various disease processes |
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| Suspensions of microorganisms or their antigenic products that have been killed or attenuated so that they can induce antibody formation |
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| Bacterial products that have been modified to destroy toxicity while retaining antigenic properties |
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