Appendix C

Axia College Material

Appendix C

Immune Response and Hypersensitivity

Puncture Wound Multimedia Activity

After completing the Puncture Wound Multimedia Activity, complete the table below. List the four events of the inflammatory response covered in the activity in the order of occurrence. Rewrite the events in your own words, using vocabulary terms from Ch. 2 of the text.

Vascular Events in an Inflammatory Response

|Events |Simplified description of event |Professional description of event |

|1st |Germs from the nail are introduced into the skin. |Jill was walking on the sidewalk and step on a nail that |

| | |went up in the medial part of her right foot. Breaking thru |

| | |her skin send germs into her open wound from the nail. |

|2nd |Surrounding cells leak fluids that affect the blood |When she steped on the nail it penetrated thru her skin |

| |vessels. |making plasma leak. |

|3rd |The fluid affecting the surrounding blood vessels cause |The plasma is then surrounded by platelets; these start the |

| |the release of other cells into the tissue. |clotting factor in wounds. |

|4th |As the wounded part of the body reacts to the germs, |The granulocytes and the lymphocytes are cells that help to |

| |certain cells destroy these germs. |fight infection. |

Hypersensitivity

Give a brief description and example in your own words for each of the four types of hypersensitivity presented in Ch. 2.

Hypersensitivity Matrix

|Type of Hypersensitivity...