• Question: How antibodies reproduce?

    Asked by 454sysb37 to Carmen, Daniel, Laura, Noel, Steph on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Noel Carter

      Noel Carter answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Antibodies themselves don’t reproduce as such. There are special cells that make them. There are lots of cells that make unique antibodies to detect different “foreign bodies”. When the foreign body” enters the person the cells divide and grow and start to make lots of antibody that help the immune system destroy the foreign body- this could be a bacteria for example.

    • Photo: Laura Garcia Ibanez

      Laura Garcia Ibanez answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      As Noel said antibodies don’t reproduce. Antibodies are proteins produced and secreted by plasma cells (a spcific type of B cell). But the stimuli of pathogens will cause B cells to differenciate into plasma cells and more antibodies will be produced.
      Cheers!

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