Antibodies.

By
Molly Bolder
INT. BLOOD VESSEL - DAY
A fade from black reveals the microscopic world. A variety
of cells are flowing through a blood vessel in the body. As
groups of blood cells pass by a group of B cells slowly
float along the bottom of the blood vessel. A lone bacteria
cell enters the shot and passes through, brushing the group
of B cells. One B cell with a matching antibody rises up and
grabs it. As they flow together down the vein the B cell
connects itself to the bacteria and begins engulfing it
along with the antibody it is attached to. As it does so it
slows to a stop and begins to break it down. Other cells
pass by the B Cell as it begins to produce an MHC2 protein
which holds up a piece of the bacteria that the B cell
absorbed. The B cell is now a professional antigen
presenting cell. The shot fades to black.

INT. BLOOD VESSEL - DAY

Opening from black, the B cell is passed by a group of
helper T cells as they enter the vein. One of these helper T
cells has receptors that match the bacteria presented
exactly and reaches for it. The T cell binds to the protein
and bacteria using its receptors thus activating the B Cell.
The now activated B cell begins to proliferate two kinds of
B cells. First are the memory B cells, multiplying copies of
the original B cell, and the other is the plasma cell, the
matured B cell. The plasma cell releases many of the same
kind of antibody and when it is finished it will become weak
and die.
During this the helper T cells are also proliferating two
kinds of cells. It emits small protein molecules called
cytokines which then enter other cells in the immune system
and make them produce the memory T cells. Here the camera
zooms out to reveal the same process happening around the
cells by others and gradually fades out.