Friday, March 5, 2010

Inflammatory Reaction

A skin cut, a wound, or a burn may lead to a disruption in your first barrier, your skin. Once the first barrier is broken, foreign antigens easily enter into your body causing it to react. Activation of the non-specific immune response, mainly characterized by an inflammation in the affected area, will occur very rapidly.





What will happen in your body when an inflammation occur ?





-Redness and heat due to the dilatation of the capillaries and increased blood supply to that area.
- Granulocytes and monocytes will be attracted to the area by the microbes introduced, and will try to phagocyte the foreign antigens equally.

And the war begins between them.

http://www.agen.ufl.edu/~chyn/age2062/lect/lect_26/lect_26.htm
What do you think will happen if the granulocytes and monocutes failed to remove the foreign antigen from your body?


3 comments:

  1. Nice work Rayan. i like your post. The info in your posts are beneficial.

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  2. Everyone is talking about immunity “how to boost your immune system at home”, Right now boosting our immunity is like a call to action. Do we really know what immunity is immunity

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