A&P II: Quiz 2 Immune System

The immune system turns agains the host body....friendly fire

What % of North America is afflicted with an autoimmune disease? What fraction of them are women?

Disease which destroys the myelin of the white matter of the brain and spinal cord

Disease which impairs communication between nerves and skeletal muscles due to destruction of ACh receptors at neural synapses.

Disease which prompts the thyroid gland to produce excessive amounts of thyroxine (antibodies not killing follice cells, but mimmicking TSH)

Symptoms are Drooping upper eyelids, difficulty swallowing and talking, generalized muscle weakness

Symptoms are visual disturbances including blindness, problems controlling muscles (weakness, clumsiness, and ultimately paralysis), speech disturbances, urinary incontinence.

Myeling sheaths in CNS are destroyed and reduced to nonfunctional hardened lesions called....

What causes MS to go through cycles of remission and relapse to be typical of the disease

Symptoms include, elevated metabolic rate, sweating, rapid irregular heartbeat, nervousness, bulging eyeballs

Mixture of dead or dying neutrophils, broken-down tissue cells, and living and dead pathogens

Walled off sac of pus formed by collogen fibers

Tumorlike growths that contain a central region of infected macrophages surrounded by uninfected macrophages and an outer fibrous capsule..... which can break out into full blown infection when immune system is compromised

What is an example of an infectious granuloma?

Ascaris and Schistosoma are examples of what?