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Chapter 35
Section 6
Melissa Shoff
Adam Gundlah
Liz Wicker
Robbie Kensinger
Rachel Harbie
• ALLERGIES- immune response to substances
that usually are not recognized as foreign.
• TISSUE REJECTIONoccurs when T cells
bring about destructions
of foreign bodies. (Transplanted Organs)
• AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE- disease that
results when the immune system
mistakenly attacks the body’s own tissues.
• BLOOD-TYPE REACTION- potentially
deadly reaction when blood is transfused
with a person where blood does not match
the donors.
• AGGLUTINATION- clumping of red
blood cells due to a reaction between
antigens on red blood cell plasma
membranes and antibodies in the
plasma.
• RH SYSTEM- antigen found in red
blood cells, 89% of us has it.
HEMOLYTIC DISEASE OF THE
NEWBORN
•When mothers red blood cells reach the
baby, and the babies red blood cells are to
immature to make their own. So without a
blood transfusion for the baby, brain damage,
retardation and maybe even death.
QUESTIONS
What are allergies?
a.) Something that doesn’t
cause trouble with body.
b.) Immune response to
substances not usually foreign.
c.) Something that makes you
sneeze.
What causes tissue
rejection?
a.) Tissues fall off
b.) Tissues can’t be put in
another body.
c.) when T cell bring
destruction of foreign bodies.
What is an autoimmune disease?
a.) When the body mistakenly attacks the
body’s own tissues.
b.) Disease that can’t be cured.
c.) Disease that stays in the body forever.