Nonspecific Defenses - Page 4
Questions
- What is the function of the inflammatory response?
- Do antibiotics help the inflammatory response?
- How do apocrine, exocrine, merocrine, and holocrine glands differ?
- During the inflammatory response, what causes arterioles in the damaged area to dilate? Is it interferon, the action of macrophages, histamine, or swelling and heat?
- Does alcohol promote inflammation in the body?
- What produces earwax? Is it a modified sweat gland?
- Can you live without an immune system? A girl I know says she has no immune system and that's why she is always sick. Is this possible?
- What does "inflammatory process" mean?
- How big is a normal parotid gland?
- How would you describe and define inflammation?
- What does it mean to have an inflammatory response in a blood test?
- What are the functions of the thalamus, hypothalamus and pineal gland?
- Is there a gland located near the thyroid?
- Why do people become ill more often in the winter season?
- The pituitary gland is often called the “control center of the endocrine system.” Why do you think this is?
- What are the four cardinal signs of inflammatory response?
- What is the body's first line of defense against infection? What is the second line of defense?
- What are the primary symptoms of Hepatitis C? What are the stages of Syphilis called?
- What gland controls the growth hormone?
- What is the difference between polyarthritis and arthritis?