A nurse is required to educate nursing students about the mechanisms that antibodies use to destroy antigens. Which ways do antibodies destroy antigens?
1 . Destroy toxins
2 . Facilitate phagocytosis
3 . Imprison invader cells
4 . Complementing fixation
A) 1, 2, 3
B) 1, 2, 4
C) 1, 3, 4
D) 2, 3, 4
D
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Antibodies use several mechanisms to destroy antigens: neutralizing toxins, facilitating phagocytosis, imprisoning invader cells (granuloma), and complementing fixation.
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