The antibody can signal a macrophage to engulf the pathogen, the antibody itself can inactivate some feature on the pathogen, or the antibody can signal helper proteins to attach to the pathogen and destroy it.
Antibodies are dispensible. When they activate phagocytosis, they themselves are also engulfed. Other times they neutralize epitopes on the pathogen and/or activate the complement cascade. IgM is really good with complement.
When the T-Helper Cell reads the antigen presented by the microphage and then releases interleukin 2 to stimulate B cells, how does it stimulate the correct B cell with thecorrect corresponding antibody?
When the T-Helper Cell reads the antigen presented by the microphage and then releases interleukin 2 to stimulate B cells, how does it stimulate the correct B cell with thecorrect corresponding antibody?
all foreign substances, or all microorganisms have certain patterns to them which can be identified by the body, they have a similar pattern to all of them that can be identified specifically by the immune system, this is called pathogen associated molecular pattern (PAMP), as for the antibody question, look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcLIdiJJDbI&feature=related I took a class on immunology and these videos really helped integrate all that I would read for that class
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