Adaptive Immunity

Adaptive Immunity

1. ability to recognize, respond to, and remember a particular substance.

   • Types
     • Humoral or Antibody-mediated: B cells
     • Cell mediated: T cells

2. Stimulants

   • Antigens: large molecules
     • foreign: from outside
       • bacteria and viruses that cause disease
     • self-antigens: produced by body response to self and non-self
       • response: auto immune diseases
   • Haptens
     • small molecules which combine with large proteins and produce adaptive immune response.