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hypersensitivity - ANSWER ✔✔cells crucial in allergies and immune
response
Mast cells - ANSWER ✔✔Release histamine → allergic reactions
Basophils - ANSWER ✔✔Similar to mast cells; circulate in blood
Eosinophils - ANSWER ✔✔Parasitic infections & allergic responses
B cells - ANSWER ✔✔Produce antibodies
T cells - ANSWER ✔✔regulate immune response, kill infected cells---
-Cytotoxic (CD8) & helper (CD4)
Macrophages - ANSWER ✔✔Phagocytosis, antigen presentation
, Dendritic cells - ANSWER ✔✔Primary antigen-presenting cells
Myasthenia Gravis - ANSWER ✔✔Autoimmune disease where
antibodies attack ACh receptors at neuromuscular junction
Autoimmunity - ANSWER ✔✔Immune system attacks self
Alloimmunity - ANSWER ✔✔Immune reaction to non-self from same
species
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) - ANSWER ✔✔Chronic
autoimmune inflammatory disease caused by autoantibodies against
nuclear material (ANA)
Universal donor - ANSWER ✔✔O-
Universal acceptor - ANSWER ✔✔AB+
Retrovirus - ANSWER ✔✔Virus that uses reverse transcriptase to
convert RNA → DNA
Benign tumors - ANSWER ✔✔Slow growth, encapsulated, local
spread, well-differentiated, rare mortality
Malignant tumors - ANSWER ✔✔Rapid growth, not encapsulated,
metastasis, poorly differentiated, often fatal