Key Terms Related to The Lymphatic and Immune System
This text highlights key terms important for the study of anatomy of the lymphatic & immune systems, barrier defenses & the innate immune response, the adaptive immune response: T-lymphocytes & their functional types, the adaptive immune response: B-lymphocytes & antibodies, the immune response against pathogens, diseases associated with depressed or overactive immune responses, and transplantation & cancer immunology.
Topics
- active immunity
- acute inflammation
- adaptive immune response
- afferent lymphatic vessels
- antibody
- antigen
- antigen presentation
- antigen processing
- antigen receptor
- antigenic determinant
- B cells
- barrier defenses
- bone marrow
- bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue
- BALT
- central tolerance
- chemokine
- chronic inflammation
- chyle
- cisterna chyli
- class switching
- clonal anergy
- clonal deletion
- clonal expansion
- clonal selection
- clone
- complement
- constant region domain
- cytokine
- cytotoxic T cells
- Tc
- delayed hypersensitivity
- early induced immune response
- effector T cells
- efferent lymphatic vessels
- erythroblastosis fetalis
- fas ligand
- Fc region
- germinal centers
- graft-versus-host disease
- granzyme
- heavy chain
- helper T cells
- Th
- high endothelial venules
- histamine
- IgA
- IgD
- IgE
- IgG
- IgM
- immediate hypersensitivity
- immune system
- immunoglobulin
- immunological memory
- inflammation
- innate immune response
- interferons
- light chain
- lymph
- lymph node
- lymphatic capillaries
- lymphatic system
- lymphatic trunks
- lymphocytes
- lymphoid nodules
- macrophage
- macrophage oxidative metabolism
- major histocompatibility complex
- MHC
- mast cell
- memory T cells
- MHC class I
- MHC class II
- MHC polygeny
- MHC polymorphism
- monocyte
- mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
- MALT
- natural killer cell
- NK
- naive lymphocyte
- negative selection
- neutralization
- neutrophil
- opsonization
- passive immunity
- pattern recognition receptor
- PRR
- perforin
- peripheral tolerance
- phagocytosis
- plasma cell
- polyclonal response
- positive selection
- primary adaptive response
- primary lymphoid organ
- psychoneuroimmunology
- regulatory T cells
- Treg
- right lymphatic duct
- secondary adaptive response
- secondary lymphoid organs
- sensitization
- seroconversion
- severe combined immunodeficiency disease
- SCID
- spleen
- T cell
- T cell tolerance
- T cell-dependent antigen
- T cell-independent antigen
- Th1 cells
- Th2 cells
- thoracic duct
- thymocyte
- thymus
- tissue typing
- tonsils
- type I hypersensitivity
- type II hypersensitivity
- type III hypersensitivity
- variable region domain