Non-Specific Immune System

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Immune system split into two forms, specific, which is targeted against an individual type of micro-organism, and non-specific. The non-specific immune systems consists of cells and antibodies which includes phagocytosis and inflammation. Inflammation, triggered by damaged cells releasing alarm chemicals that causes blood vessels to dilate and causes redness, heat and swelling, but also prevents the infection from spreading and increases the speed of the healing process and it alarms the rest of the immune system to attract the white blood cells that conduct phagocytosis, to engulf pathogens and subsequently digesting them with lytic

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