The immune system is the body's defense against infections. The immune (ih-MYOON) system attacks germs and helps keep us healthy..

Numerous cells and organs cooperate to ensure the body. White platelets, likewise called leukocytes (LOO-kuh-sytes), assume a significant function in the invulnerable framework.

A few sorts of white platelets, called phagocytes (FAH-guh-sytes), bite up attacking life forms. Others, called lymphocytes (LIM-fuh-sytes), assist the body with recalling the intruders and wreck them.

One kind of phagocyte is the neutrophil (NOO-truh-fil), which battles microbes. At the point when somebody may have bacterial contamination, specialists can arrange a blood test to check whether it made the body have bunches of neutrophils. Different sorts of phagocytes do their own responsibilities to ensure that the body reacts to intruders.

The two sorts of lymphocytes are B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes. Lymphocytes begin in the bone marrow and either remain there and develop into B cells, or go to the thymus organ to develop into T cells. B lymphocytes resemble the body's military knowledge framework — they discover their objectives and send safeguards to bolt onto them. Lymphocytes resemble the warriors — they decimate the trespassers that the insight framework finds.

At the point when the body faculties unfamiliar substances (called antigens), the invulnerable framework attempts to perceive the antigens and dispose of them.

B lymphocytes are set off to make antibodies (additionally called immunoglobulins). These proteins lock onto explicit antigens. After they're made, antibodies ordinarily remain in our bodies in the event that we need to battle a similar germ once more. That is the reason somebody who becomes ill with an infection, similar to chickenpox, generally won't become ill from it once more.

This is also how immunizations (vaccines) prevent some diseases. An immunization introduces the body to an antigen in a way that doesn't make someone sick. But it does let the body make antibodies that will protect the person from future attack by the germ.

Although antibodies can recognize an antigen and lock onto it, they can't destroy it without help. That's the job of the T cells. They destroy antigens tagged by antibodies or cells that are infected or somehow changed. (Some T cells are actually called "killer cells.") T cells also help signal other cells (like phagocytes) to do their jobs.

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