User:Eric Martz/Antibody Quiz
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Antibody Quiz
You will get immediate feedback when you click Submit (at the bottom of the quiz). The quiz below is offered to accompany the Antibody structure tutorial at MolviZ.Org. For the open-ended questions provided with the tutorial, answers are below.
Suggestions to emartz at microbio dot umass dot edu.
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Answers to Open-Ended Questions
Here are answers to the questions provided in a document with the Antibody tutorial.
- Antibody bound to foreign microbes flags them for destruction. This is called "opsonization". Antibody triggers various white blood cells to kill microbes. Antibody bound to viruses can render them non-infectious. Binding of antibody to toxins can neutralize their toxicity. Mothers can give some of their antibodies (primarily IgA) to their babies through their breast milk.
- Antibody can cause auto-immune diseases, such as Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and Grave's disease. When too much antigen enters the body, antibody:antigen complexes can clog filtration in the kidneys, causing kidney damage called glomerulonephritis.
