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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Answers_innate_adaptive, takes several days to become protective and is designed to react with and remove a specific antigen branches humoral immunity, activated immediately or within several hours after exposure to almost any microbe examples NK cells, activated immediately or within several hours after exposure to almost any microbe examples anatomical barriers, adaptive immunity antigen-specific activated by epitopes of antigens binding to antigen receptors, takes several days to become protective and is designed to react with and remove a specific antigen memory usually improves upon repeated exposure to a given infection, recognizes specific epitopes of a specific antigen of a microbe ???? epitope: The portion of an antigen that reacts with antibodies and B- and T-lymphocyte receptors, activated immediately or within several hours after exposure to almost any microbe memory do not improve with repeated exposure to a given infection, cell-mediated immunity examples cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs), takes several days to become protective and is designed to react with and remove a specific antigen branches cell-mediated immunity, activated by epitopes of antigens binding to antigen receptors specificity recognizes specific epitopes of a specific antigen of a microbe, activated by PAMPs binding to PRRs specificity recognizes molecules shared by groups of related microbes, activated immediately or within several hours after exposure to almost any microbe ???? initial response by the body to eliminate microbes and prevent infection, activated by PAMPs binding to PRRs PAMP PAMP: pathogen-associated molecular patterns, adaptive immunity antigen-specific antigen: A substance that reacts with antibody molecules and antigen receptors on B- and T-lymphocytes, innate immunity antigen-nonspecific activated by PAMPs binding to PRRs, activated immediately or within several hours after exposure to almost any microbe examples acute phase response, activated immediately or within several hours after exposure to almost any microbe examples fever, activated immediately or within several hours after exposure to almost any microbe examples inflammation, activated by PAMPs binding to PRRs PRR PRR: pattern- recognition receptors, immune responses immunity one developes throughout life adaptive immunity
