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how do doctors use the immune response to protect you from disease? what are som

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Question

how do doctors use the immune response to protect you from disease?
what are some ways that diseases spread?
what is an example of a disease that attacks the human immune system?
what problems can prevent the immune system from working properly?
why are immunosuppresant drugs necessary when someone has an organ transplant?
why is rapid detection of diseass exposure important?
why are enzymes ised in this immunoassay?
why do you need to assay positive and negative control samples as well as your experimental samples?

Explanation / Answer

1)helps when creating vaccines.

2)Diseases can spread in a variety of ways: through the air, from direct or indirect contact with another person, soiled objects, skin or mucous membrane, saliva, urine, blood and body secretions, through sexual contact, and through contaminated food and water.

3)LUPUS,People with lupus develop autoimmune antibodies that can attach to tissues throughout the body. The joints, lungs, blood cells, nerves, and kidneys are commonly affected in lupus. Treatment often requires daily oral prednisone, a steroid that reduces immune system function.

4)Hypersensitvity, immunodeficiency, and autoimmune diseases.

5)Immunosuppressant drugs are a class of drugs that suppress, or reduce, the strength of the body's immune system. Some of these drugs are used to make the body less likely to reject a transplanted organ, such as a liver, heart, or kidney. These drugs are called anti-rejection drugs.

6)to reduce severity.

7)When enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) react with appropriate substrates (such as ABTS or TMB), a change in color occurs, which is used as a signal. However, the signal has to be associated with the presence of antibody or antigen, which is why the enzyme has to be linked to an appropriate antibody.

8)Controls are needed to make sure the assay is working correctly. If there are nopositive controls and the sample is negative, we can’t know if the sample was trulynegative or if assay didn’t work. Conversely, without a negative control, there is no way of knowing if all samples (positive or not) would have given a positive result.