LYMPHATIC BOAT RIDE: On this ride, you will ride on a boat, and it will slowly take you around the entire human body in lymph vessels.
IMMUNE FIGHT: This attraction is actually a fight between a white blood cell and a type of bacteria. This fight is very entertaining to watch.
LYMPHATIC RAFT RIDE: This ride is similiar to the Lymphatic Boat Ride, except instead of traveling in a boat, you will travel on a raft. Also, on the Lymphatic Raft Ride, the raft will travel a lot faster than the boat in the Lymphatic Boat Ride. And, there will also be rapids in the Lymphatic Raft Ride.
Some of the most popular places to visit in the immune system are the spleen, thymus gland, and the tonsils.
1. The immune system is a complex network of organs that has cells that recognize foreign substances in the body and destroy them. It protects humans against infectious agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other parasites.
2. The skin is the body's first line of defense, it is a physical barrier that helps to prevent microorganisms from entering the body.
3. A nonspecific response is the body’s first line of defense against disease, they do not target anything in particular, they just guard against all types of infections. The other type of response is a specific response, these responses are when the body has a specific target which it is aiming for.
4. T-Cells attack antigens or antigen-bearing agents directly, providing cell mediated immunity, while B-Cells produce antibodies that act agianst specific antigens, allowing for antibodymediated immunity.
5. Immunity is when the body is able to permanently fight a disease using B-cells and T-cells produced the first time the body was exposed to the disease. While vaccination is when the body is exposed to a mild form of a disease, so that the body can produce B-cells and T-cells which will help fight future breakouts of the disease. So, during immunity the body is naturally exposed to a disease so that it can fight future breakouts of a disease, while vaccination is when the body is artificially exposed to a disease so that the body can become immune against the certain disease.
6. One disorder in the immune system is the HIV virus. The HIV virus uses reverse transcriptase to code into the bodies of DNA. By making a copy it sort of "tricks" the T-cells causing them to have to fight against themselves. There by causing the CD4 count to be reduced, not allowing for your body to produce its own antibodies to help the immune system fight against future viruses. This is why people infected with the HIV virus are apt to becoming infected quicker to other viral infections than most other people.
7. Each antibody can only combine with a specific antigen (foreign substance) which has a commplementary chemical shape. Opsonin antibodies cling to antigens such as bacteria and make them more appetizing to certain white blood cells called phagocytes, this is illustrated in diagram one. Lysin antibodies kill bacteria directly by dissolving them, this is illustrated in diagram two. Agglutinin antibodies causes bacteria and viruses to clump together rendering them ineffective, this is illustrated in diagram three.
STAY AWAY FROM THE ANIGENS, BECAUSE THEY CAN MAKE YOU VERY SICK. YOU SHOULD ALSO STAY AWAY FROM THE ANTIBODIES, BECAUSE THEY MIGHT MISTAKE YOU FOR AN ANTIGEN AND KILL YOU.
The immune system imports a large amount of white blood cells from the bones in the skeletal system.
The immune system exports a lot of T and B cells to the rest of the body to prevent diseases from occurring.
