ONS Chemotherapy Course Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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ONS Chemotherapy Course Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers

Question:pluripotent stem cells

Ans: Stem cells that can become almost all types of tissues and cells in the
body. (Except Embryonic)

Question: myeloid stem cells

Ans: Mature into RBCs, Platelets, and WBCs

Question: lymphoid stem cells

Ans: Mature into specialized WBCs called Lymphocytes

Question: what are the types of WBCs?

Ans: Granulocytes and Agranulocytes

Question: Granuolcytes

Ans: basophils, Eosinophils, neutrophils

"BEN is GRAN"

Question: Agranulocytes

Ans: T lymphocytes, B Lymphocytes, and Monocytes

Question: Innate Immunity

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Ans: First line of defense. Nonspecific response to non-self entity.




Examples: skin, mucus membrane, flora of the skin

Question: Humoral Immunity

Ans: Specific immunity produced by B Lymphocytes and Memory B cells that
produce antibodies that circulate in body fluids.




B Cells will start dividing when it comes in contact with its antigen and will
begin secreting antibodies




The pathogen will be phagocytosed by presenting cells and presented to T
cells to begin cell mediated immunity.




After the threat some of the plasma cells will become memory cells and will go
to the bone marrow where they will continue to secrete antibodies for years.

Question: Cell Mediated Immunity

Ans: Type of immunity produced by T cells that attack infected or abnormal
body cells.




Can only be activated when fragments of an antigen are put on the surface of
an antigen-presenting cell

Question: Proto-Oncogenes