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Immunity to infection (3/cytokines) - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 21 times
- The average score is 4 of 11
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is the name given to a chemical released by a cell acts on the same cell that secreted it? | Autocrine | 64%
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| What is the name for the subgroup of cytokines, one of which being CXCL8, which are involved in controlling cell movement? | Chemokines | 64%
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| What group of cytokine's function is generally antiviral and cell activating? | Interferon | 57%
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| Leukotrienes are one but what is the other potent inflammatory mediator that is a breakdown product of arachadonic acid, and leads to vasodilation and increased vascular permeability? | Prostaglandin | 50%
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| That multiple cytokines may have the same effect? | Redundancy | 36%
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| The kinin system results in the production of a molecule that increases vascular permeability, induces vasodilation, pain and activates complement what is the molecule? | Bradykinin | 29%
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| What is the name of the signal transduction pathway that cytokines work through? | Jak/STAT | 29%
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| When more than one cytokine acts together the effect is great than the sum when alone? | Synergy | 29%
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| IL-6 induces the release of both fibrinogen and C-reactive protein from hepatocytes, what is the name for this group of molecules? | Acute phase proteins | 14%
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| That one cytokine may hinder the effect of another? | Antagonism | 14%
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| Cytokines are very difficult to study for lots of different reasons however there are 4 key ones. What word describes the fact that a single cytokine might have lots of different functions? | Pleiotropism | 7%
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