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Q: Biology-The Immune, Nervous, & Endocrine System ( Answered,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Biology-The Immune, Nervous, & Endocrine System
Category: Health > Conditions and Diseases
Asked by: vet8-ga
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Posted: 29 Jun 2005 07:49 PDT
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Question ID: 538302
How do antibodies fight infections? What are 5 different types of
antibodies and their functions? What is an autoimmune disease?
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Subject: Re: Biology-The Immune, Nervous, & Endocrine System
Answered By: nenna-ga on 06 Jul 2005 16:49 PDT
 
I?ll provide you with three links for you to find this information.

What are antibodies? 
?Antibodies are proteins made by the B cells.?
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=118#antib

You can find 5 classes of Antibodies and  what they are here:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/AntigenReceptors.html
IgG, IgM, IgA, IgD, and IgE.

And, the definition for Autoimmune disorder is here:
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&oi=defmore&q=define:Autoimmune+disorder

If this answer requires further explanation, please request
clarification before rating it, and I'll be happy to look into this
further.

Nenna-GA
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Subject: Re: Biology-The Immune, Nervous, & Endocrine System
From: optima-ga on 29 Jun 2005 09:41 PDT
 
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody
and http://www.4woman.gov/faq/autoimmune.htm

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