Secondary Immune Response

• What will happen if the same pathogen enters the body again?

  The immune system produces a quicker, stronger immune response- the secondary response
• What happens faster in the secondary response?

  clonal selection
• what are activated?

  Memory T-cells

  Memory B-cells
• What do memory B-cells do when they are activated?

  divide into plasma cells that produce the right antibody to the antigen
• what do memory T-cells do when they are activated??

  divide into the correct type of T-cells to kill the cell carrying the antigen
• what does the secondary response often do?

  gets rid of the pathogen before you begin to show any symptoms - you are IMMUNE to the PATHOGEN