Adaptive Immunity and Autoimmune Diseases

What is the term used to describe the damaging aspects of adaptive immunity that imply excessive immunity?

Which type of immunoglobulin is responsible for 'hay fever' allergies?

In what way does inappropriate immunity, such as occurs in allergic responses, cause disease?

Why are IgE immunoglobulins likely to be critical for host defense against parasites?

What type of hypersensitivity is the reaction to a tuberculin test?

What type of immunity involves the key cells known as lymphocytes?

What do T cell receptors bind to?

What are antigens that can provoke an adaptive immune response and bind to antigen receptors termed?

Which cells process the antigen and 'present' it to the lymphocytes in the immune system?

Why does a tuberculin skin test need to be read several days after testing?

What term describes the type of immunity that involves the production of immunoglobulin (IgE) responsible for allergic reactions?

Why are IgE immunoglobulins likely to be critical for host defense against parasites?

What is the impact of a failure of our immune systems to distinguish the self from foreign material?

How are hypersensitivity reactions classified?

What type of immunity is the reaction to a tuberculin test?

What is the term for substances that can bind to an antibody or T cell receptor and provoke an adaptive immune response?

What is the role of macrophages in the adaptive immune system?

Which molecule binds a particular antigen in the immune system?

What characteristic must antigens have to provoke an adaptive immune response?

What type of immunity are IgE immunoglobulins likely to be involved in?