Exam 6: Adaptive Immunity

A 10-year-old male is stung by a bee while playing in the yard.He experiences a severe allergic reaction and has to go to the ER.The nurse providing care realizes this reaction is the result of:

Which patient will develop active immunity? A patient who:

When the immunoglobulin crosses the placenta,what type of immunity does the fetus receive?

Which portion of the antibody is responsible for the biologic functions of antibodies?

A 23-year-old pregnant female visits her primary care provider for her final prenatal checkup.The primary care provider determines that the fetus has developed an infection in utero.Which of the following would be increased in the fetus at birth?

After teaching the students about B cells,which statement indicates teaching was successful? B cells are originally derived from cells of the:

After a patient is exposed to a specific antigen,B cells will differentiate into:

Direct effects of antibodies include (select all that apply):

An experiment is carried out to characterize newly discovered immunoglobulins.Specificity of the amino acids within the immunoglobulin could be determined by studying the:

Self-antigens do not meet the requirements for immunogenicity because they lack which of the following?

Which statement indicates a correct understanding of antibodies? The most abundant class of antibody in the serum is:

A patient has a disease state that results from the secretion of toxins by bacteria.Which medical diagnosis will the nurse see documented on the chart?

While planning care for an elderly patient,the nurse remembers that increased age is associated with (select all that apply):

A macrophage was isolated and analyzed for major histocompatibility complex.Which of the following would be expected?

When a patient asks about secondary lymph organs,how should the nurse respond? Secondary lymph organs include (select all that apply):

Which of the following is responsible for initiating clonal selection?

Which of the following statements indicates more teaching is needed regarding secondary lymph organs? ________is/are a secondary lymph organ.

A 6-year-old female is diagnosed with a bacterial infection of the respiratory system.Which of the following will most likely try to fight the antigen?

A 25-year-old female has sexual relations with her boyfriend.Later she is told that the boyfriend is infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae.Testing reveals that she does not have the disease.How is it possible that she did not contract the disease?

An immunologist has isolated a molecule from the human body to study.It is found to react with antibodies on B cells.Further testing reveals that the molecule is large and chemically diverse.What type of molecule is the immunologist studying?