Can anyone give me 10 fun facts about the immune system by TONIGHT (3/19)?
6. Four phases of the immune response: recognition, amplification of defenses, attack, and suppression. 5. Arthritis, an autoimmune disease, occurs when the immune system attacks the body. 4. An allergy is when the immune system responds inappropriately to a harmless substance. 3. A Virus is little more than a package of genetic info that takes over a body cell to reproduce. 2. 99.9 % of Bacteria are essentially good. 1. There is a T cell, B cell and an antibody for every different antigen from smallpox to the common cold. In order to have room for these warriors in the body, there is only of a few of each kind. However, when danger calls, the cell in need will reproduce to become millions 1) Type 1 diabetes doesn’t hamper the day-to-day activity of your immune system if you have good blood glucose control. “The autoimmune part of type 1 is very particular, as only the beta cells in the islets are targeted; not the other cells in the islet, and not the other cells in the pancreas. In a
