Innate immune Function
Pre-Questions
1. Which of the following DO NOT form part of physical barriers?
a. sweat
b. sebaceous secretions
c. unbroken skin
d. mucous membrane
e. T cells
2. The term _____ is given to any foreign substance that stimulates a specific immune
system response.
a. Antigen
3. The immune defenses are divided into how many basic categories.
a. five
b. four
c. two
d. three
4. Chemical barriers include: (Select all that apply)
a. Mucous
b. Food
c. Hydrochloric acid
d. Sweat
5. Monocytes differentiate into _________when the cells migrate to tissues.
a. macrophages
b. neutrophils
c. lymphocytes
d. basophils
In between study questions
6. Nonspecific chemical defenses include:
a. lysozyme
b. stomach hydrochloric acid
c. All of the answers are correct
d. lactic acid and electrolytes of sweat
e. the skin's acidic pH and fatty acids
7. Which of the following is not an event of phagocytosis?
a. Phagolysosome formation
b. Chemotaxis
c. Diapedesis
d. Ingestion
e. Destruction
, 8. Neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils are called granulocytes because they have
prominent cytoplasmic inclusions that appear with identifying, characteristic colors in a
stained blood smear.
9. Which of the white blood cells produces chemicals that can attack large helminths?
a. Basophils
b. Lymphocytes
c. Neutrophils
d. Eosinophils
e. Macrophages
10. Host cells that produce interferon after viral attack can protect themselves from the
invasion.
a. True
b. False
11. The membrane attack stage of the complement cascade involves:
a. a ring-shaped protein digesting holes in bacterial cell membranes and virus
envelopes
b. the production of inflammatory cytokines
c. initiation of the cascade
d. the cleaving of C3 to yield C3a and C3b
e. C1q binding to surface receptors on a membrane
12. Which of the following is mismatched in relation to inflammation?
a. Tumor - cancer
b. Rubor - redness
c. Dolor - pain
d. Calor – warmth
Post-Questions
13. The chemical found in tears and saliva that hydrolyzes the peptidoglycan in certain
bacterial cell walls is:
a. lactic acid
b. lysozyme
c. histamine
d. hydrochloric acid
e. bile
14. The blood cells that function in allergic reactions and inflammation, contain peroxidase
and lysozyme, and particularly target parasitic worms and fungi are:
a. lymphocytes
b. monocytes
c. neutrophils
d. basophils
e. eosinophils
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