Chapter 2
Components of the Immune System

Part 1

The following words play different roles in the immune system. Your job is to describe each and the role each plays in keeping the body healthy.

Skin

Mucous Membranes

Thymus

Spleen

Bone Marrow

White Blood Cells

Lymph System
 

Part 2

Discuss the importance of HLA tissue typing for patients who are in need of transplants
Relate this to the Jesica Santillan case. (Jesica is the teenage girl who received a heart lung transplant from a donor with a different blood type and died.)

Part 3

Elaborate on the importance of handwashing in preventing the spread of disease.
 

Part 4

Please give a basic descriotion of the difference between humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity.
 

 Part 5

Discuss the relationsdhip of stress to the immune system.