Immune disease

This topic is very important but very confusing as well, I will try to explain in the next for four post, but first lets make an overview about it.

In the defense of our bodies we have "soldiers" that fight for us, we have several types, today we will review about four of them, B cells, T cells, phagocytic system and complement system.

B cells: think about this cells as factories, this cells will produces immunoglobulins (or antibodies) against antigens. They work in the humoral defense of the body.

T cells: this cells will be like the workers, the can be divided in different types like helper, cytotoxic and memory. They work in the cell-mediated defense of the body.

Phagocytic system: think about hungry dudes looking for food, basically are monocytes and macrophages.

And finally we have the complement system: as the name says, they complement the work of the other workers. They are part of the innate immune system, they attack following a cascade increasing their response creating what's known as MAC (membrane attack complex).

Keep this information in mind because we will need this basic knowledge for the next topics.

See you in the next post.

Carlos Albrecht