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03 PENGENALAN SISTEM IMUN, FKUH 18.4.2016 (1) .PPSX
03 PENGENALAN SISTEM IMUN, FKUH 18.4.2016 (1) .PPSX
Immune System
Rahmawati Minhajat
• Innate immunity
This type of host defence is always present in healthy individuals,
prepared to block the entry of microbes & to rapidly eliminate
microbes that succeed in entering host tissue
=natural
=native
Immunity/immune response
=nonspecific
=nonadaptive
•Adaptive immunity
The type of host defence that is stimulated by microbes that invade tissues,
that is, it adapts to the presence of microbial invaders
=spicific
=acquared Immunity/immune response
• Innate immunity
Mediates the initial protection against infection
•Adaptive immunity
Develops more slowly and mediates the later,
even more effective, defense againts infections
The immune system
Immune system
All these mechanisms of innate immunity specifically recognize and react against microbes but
do not react against noninfectious foreign substances
Adaptive (specific) immunity
Antigen
B-cell
B-cell
Virus killed
Antibodies are produced by B lymphocytes secreted into
circulation and mucosal fluids. They neutralize & eliminate
microbes and microbial toxins that are present in blood and in
the lumens of mucosal organ.