MK+immune+response+SAC

Set up this page however you wish to show the progress of your research and development of your presentation on an aspect of the immune response. ORAL PRESENTATION: CELL MEDIATED IMMUNE RESPONSE

- Background e.g. processes involved, names of cells involved, results of the response.
specific immunity can be broken up into two different yet complimentry processes one called humoral immunity the other cell mediated immunity. cell mediated immuntiy differs from humoural in that it fights and destroys actual cells, such as fungi, protists and virus infected cells. This response is based around the circulation of T cells in lymph and blood plasma, it involves four different types T cells: Helper, cytotoxic, suppresor and memory. The process: - starts with the T helper cells, when they come across an antigen presenting cell (APC) it will release, e.g a macrophage that has engulfed a bacterium which will have the antigens of that bacterium on its surface it
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