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The cells involved are white blood cells leukocytes, which seek out and destroy diseasecausing organisms or. Actually this is bodys defense mechanism to destroy the pathogen. The books homepage helps you explore earths biggest bookstore without ever leaving the comfort of your couch. An example of a nonspecific defense is phagocytosis. As the smoke moves more deeply into the respiratory tract, more soluble gases are adsorbed and particles are deposited in the airways and alveoli.
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Like a medieval castle, the immune system has a series of defenses. Immunology notes on second line of defense in immune system what is the second line of defence internal defence in immune system in the last post we discussed how difficult is for a microbe to get into the body. To assess variation in local parasitism risk, we used five predictors of parasitism that had previously been identified in the literature. Strategic variation in mobbing as a front line of defense. The bodys third line of defense is the immune response. Pulmonary diseases how tobacco smoke causes disease.
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