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Quiz: Biological Therapy

  1. discovered the benefits of injecting humans with fluid taken from sores on cattle infected with cowpox, a disease also known as vaccinia.
  2. In genetically engineered IL-2 was approved by FDA for treating advanced kidney cancer.
  3. Our first line of defense is a physical barrier involving all the following except , producing a specific response to "foreign invaders."
  4. One way the immune system can recognize differences among cells is by molecules called that appear on the cell surface.
  5. So far, the class of has been approved as a cancer treatment.
  6. In syngeneic transplants, patients receive stem cells from their .
  7. Bone marrow transplantation is often used to replace stem cells that have been destroyed by .
  8. Patients undergoing bone marrow transplant experience lethargy mainly because .