A nurse is planning a patients care and is relating it to normal immune response. During what stage of the immune response should the nurse know that antibodies or cytotoxic $\mathrm{T}$ cells combine and destroy the invading microbes?

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In the effector stage, either the antibody of the humoral response or the cytotoxic (killer) $\mathrm{T}$ cell of the cellular response reaches and couples with the antigen on the surface of the foreign invader. The coupling initiates a series of events that in most instances results in total destruction of the invading microbes or the complete neutralization of the toxin. This does not take place during the three preceding stages.

A Nurse Is Planning a Patients Care and Is Relating T\mathrm{T}T

A Nurse Is Planning a Patients Care and Is Relating $\mathrm{T}$