NCK Licensing Exam (Nursing) The Lymphatic and Immune System — practice questions
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Practice NCK Licensing Exam (Nursing) The Lymphatic and Immune System in the app →Interstitial fluid takes on which name once it has entered the lymphatic system?Capillary filtration releases 20 liters of plasma into the tissues each day and 17 liters returns straight to What keeps lymph moving through the lymphatic vessels toward the heart?Cancer cells block a patient's lymphatic drainage and protein-rich fluid builds up in the tissue spaces. What Lymph collected from a patient's left leg re-enters the bloodstream at which point?Where do B cells and T cells complete their maturation?Which vessels carry lymph into a lymph node?Within the spleen, which job belongs to the white pulp?Which enzyme in saliva destroys bacteria by digesting their cell walls?Which sign is not one of the four characteristics of inflammation?Histamine released from mast cell granules produces which pair of effects on local blood vessels?Aspirin and ibuprofen relieve inflammatory pain by blocking the production of which mediator?What is the term for tagging a pathogen so that phagocytes take it up more readily?A natural killer cell empties its granules onto an infected cell. Which molecule then digests proteins inside Which complement proteins assemble into the membrane-attack complex that kills bacteria by disrupting their osThymocytes that bind self-antigen at the junction between cortex and medulla are killed by apoptosis. What is A cytotoxic T cell carries the CD8 marker. Which MHC class does that marker bind?Which helper T cell subset secretes the cytokines that drive B cells to become antibody-secreting plasma cellsWhich three cell types express MHC class II and act as professional antigen-presenting cells?Taking an antigen into a cell and enzymatically cutting it into smaller pieces is known as what?Which antibody class is usually the first one made during a primary response?Which antibody class crosses the placenta to protect the developing fetus?Which antibody class is secreted as a dimer into mucus, saliva, tears and breast milk?Which antibody class binds mast cells through its Fc region and sits at the lowest concentration in blood?Which antibody class has no known function other than acting as a receptor on naive B cells?A B cell switches from making IgM to making IgG. What happens to the antigen-binding site of the antibody?A nurse gives a patient an injection of immune globulin after a possible exposure. Which kind of immunity doesIgA in mucus coats a virus so that it can no longer attach to host cell receptors. What is this process calledWhy must the influenza vaccine be reformulated for each flu season?Which drug is used against anaphylactic shock because it raises blood pressure and relaxes bronchial smooth muA tuberculin skin test is read two days after the injection. What accounts for the delay before the reaction aIn systemic lupus erythematosus, soluble antigens and antibodies precipitate along blood vessel linings. WhichWhich inherited immunodeficiency knocks out both the B cell and the T cell arms of adaptive immunity?An Rh-negative mother is carrying her second Rh-positive baby. What attacks the fetal blood in this pregnancy?