Other Immunity Principles Practice Test

Healthy individuals do not have any B cells that are reactive against self-antigen.

Female sex hormones do not play an important role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune disease.

In the prevention of autoimmunity, T cell tolerance is more critical than B cell tolerance against self-nuclear antigens.

The elimination of autoreactive lymphocytes during central tolerance is more important in the prevention of autoimmunity than peripheral tolerance.

Naive B cells need more than one signal to become activated towards a specific antigen.