PATH 3610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Natural Killer Cell, Cytotoxic T Cell, Follicular Dendritic Cells
28 Sep 2017
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Patients with aids suffer from a variety of infectious diseases, including pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, toxoplasma gondiiencephalitis, and enteritis caused by a variety of organisms, including candida, cryptosporidium, giardia and amoeba. These infections ultimately lead to the death of the patient. The body has several mechanisms which allow it to resist foreign invaders, both nonspecific and specific. The acquired immune deficiency syndrome causes a failure in the specific mechanisms by which the body resists infection in other words, there is a failure in the immune response. In this way, it differs from the acute inflammatory response, which we discussed in the previous unit. Inflammation is nonspecific the inflammatory response is similar regardless of the initiating injury. In truth, this unit should be called the acquired immune response. Immune response and immunity are discussed, we are referring to the acquired. You might recall from unit 03 that we discussed something called the.
