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Question 15

During a primary immune response to a pathogen, different components of the immune system cooperate to clear the infection. Which of the following processes is classified as a component of the specific (adaptive) humoral immune response?

Clonal selection and proliferation of B-lymphocytes into antibody-secreting plasma cells

Activation of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes by interleukins to lyse infected host cells

Phagocytosis of pathogen-antibody complexes by neutrophils in the tissue

Production of histamines by mast cells to increase capillary permeability

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