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What are pathogens?

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agents that cause disease

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dedicated cells of the _________ interact with and destroy ________

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Immune system, pathogens

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Name the 4 cellular pathogens

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1) parasites
2) protozoa
3) fungi
4) prokaryote

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Name the 2 acellular pathogens

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1) virus
2) prions

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What are the 2 types of molecular recognition that allow detection of non-self molecules, particles, and cells?

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1) Innate Immunity
2) Adaptive Immunity

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What is innate immunity? (2)

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1) recognition of traits SHARED by broad ranges of pathogens using a SMALL set of receptors
2) Rapid response

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What is adaptive immunity? (2)

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1) recognition of traits SPECIFIC to particular pathogens using a VAST array of receptors
2) Slower response

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What are the 2 types of defenses in innate immunity?

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1) Barrier defenses
2) Internal defenses

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What are the 3 barrier defenses?

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1) skin
2) mucous membrane
3) secretions

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What are the 4 types of internal defenses

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1) phagocytic cells
2) natural killer cells
3) antimicrobial proteins
4) inflammatory response

PAIN

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What are the 2 types of adaptive immunity responses? (describe them)

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1) humoral response: ANTIBODIES defend against infections in body FLUIDS
2) cell-mediated response: CYTOTOXIC CELLS defend against infections in body CELLS

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What are the 3 parts of innate immunity in invertebrates?

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1) An exoskeleton made of chitin forms 1st barrier
2) chitin based barrier + lysozyme protect digestive system
3) hemocytes in hemolymph carry out phagocytosis

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What does lysozyme do?

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Breaks down bacterial cell walls

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What do hemocytes do?

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Secret antimicrobial peptides that disrupt plasma membrane of fungi and bacteria

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How does the immune system recognize bacteria and fungi?

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Structures on their cell walls (antigens)

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How do insects defend against viruses?

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they can recognize virus double-stranded RNA

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Explain antiviral defense in insects (3)

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1) virus infects host cell and begins replicating ssRNA
2) Dicer-2 recognizes foreign dsRNA and cuts it up
3) Argo protein picks one up and now “knows” what to destroy by cleaving

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What is the main goal of innate immunity in vertebrates?

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recognize that something is foreign

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What are the barrier defenses in innate immunity in vertebrates?

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In respiratory, urinary, and reproductive tracts:
1) Skin
2) Mucous membrane

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What allow for the removal of microbes?

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mucus traps

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What bodily fluids are hostile to microbes?

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1) Saliva
2) Mucus
3) Tears
by lysozymes that break cell walls

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What are the affects of low pH of the skin and digestive system?

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prevents growth of bacteria

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How do mammals detect invading pathogens?

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use cells called Toll-like receptors (TLR’s)

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How do TLR’s recognize pathogens?

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they recognize fragments of molecules of a set of pathogens

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What are the 2 main types of phagocytic cells in mammals?
1) neutrophils 2) macrophages
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What do neutrophils do and where are they found?
1) they respond to signals from damaged tissue or presence of pathogens 2) found circulating in blood
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Where are macrophages found? (2)
1) found migrating through body 2) permanently in organs/tissues
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What are the 2 additional types of phagocytic cells?
1) dendritic cells 2) eosinophils
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What do dendritic cells do?
Stimulate development of adaptive immunity
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Where are dendritic cells found? (2)
1) They are found in tissues in contact with the environment 2) They migrate to lymph nodes after pathogen detection
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What do eosinophils do?
they discharge destructive enzymes against parasites (multicellular invaders)
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What are the functions of Natural Killer cells? (2)
1) detect abnormal cells 2) They release chemicals leading to cell death
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Where are natural killer cells found?
They are found circulating the body and involve the lymph system
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What is the main function of antimicrobial peptides and proteins? (2)
1) They attack pathogens 2) impede their reproduction
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What are the characteristics of interferon proteins? (3)
1) interfere with viruses 2) activate macrophages 3) released by cells to warn neighboring cells
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Where are complement proteins made?
They are produced in your liver
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Complement proteins circulate in their _______ form. Why?
inactive; so they don't attack the body
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What activates complement proteins?
pathogen contact, which stimulates cascade of activation
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What are the 3 affects of complement proteins?
1) Opsonization 2) Forms membrane attack complex 3) Enhance inflammation
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What is opsonization?
Where complement proteins coat the surface of a pathogen which allows phagocytes to engulf them easily because of specialized receptors
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What is a membrane attack complex?
Where complement proteins make a hole in pathogen membrane which leads to lysis
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An inflammatory repsonse can be _______ or _______
local; systemic
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What is inflammation?
Pain and swelling from molecules released by injury or infection
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What are mast cells?
Immune cells that release histamine
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Where are mast cells located?
In connective tissue
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What does histamine do? (2)
1) triggers vasodilation 2) increases the permeability of blood vessels
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What is the role of activated complement cells in the inflammatory response? (2)
1) promote the release of histamine 2) attract more phagocytic cells
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How does vasodilation help an inflammatory reponse?
It helps deliver antimicrobial proteins
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What is pus?
Pus is a fluid rich in white blood cells, dead pathogens, and cell debris
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What is a fever?
It is a systemic inflammatory response
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What is a fever triggered by?
It is triggered by substances released by macrophages in response to certain pathogens
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Characteristics of septic shock (2)
1) life-threatening 2) caused by an overwhelming inflammatory response
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What are the 2 examples of pathogens that evade the innate immune system?
1) Streptococcus pneumoniae 2) Tuberculosis (TB)
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What does adaptive response rely on?
Two types of lymphocytes 1) B cells 2) T cells
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Where do T cells mature?
They mature in the thymus above the heart
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Where do B cells mature?
They mature in bone marrow
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What are antigens?
Substances that can elicit a response from a B or T cell
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What are Antigen Receptors? (2)
1) Proteins that are specific to part of one molecule of a pathogen 2) how T or B cells bind to antigens
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What is an epitope?
Accessible part of an antigen that binds to an antigen receptor
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B or T cells are specialized to ________ on a _________
Recognize epitope; specific antigen
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B cell antigen receptor traits
Y shaped molecule with two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains with disulfide bridges
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Describe C and V regions on B cells
C regions vary little while V regions differ greatly
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What do the variable regions provide?
Antigen specificity
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When are B cells activated?
When the Paratope on the V regions of the antigen receptor binds to the epitope on the antigen
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What happens when B cells are activated
They secrete a soluble form of the protein called an antibody or immunoglobulin (lg)
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What is the difference between antibodies and cell antigen receptors
Antibodies are secreted (not membrane bound)
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A T cells receptor consists of
two different polypeptide chains (alpha and beta)
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T cell antigen receptor regions:
Tips of the chains form V region Rest is C region
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What do T cells do
Bind to epitope of antigen fragments displayed or presented on a host cell
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Antigen fragments are presented by
cell-surface proteins called major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules
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What are MHC molecules?
Host proteins that display the antigen fragments on the cell surface
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What is Antigen presentation?
When MHC molecules bind and transport antigen fragments to the infected cell's surface
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What can the T cell bind to
Both the antigen fragment and MHC molecule
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What are the four major characteristics of the adaptive immune system?
1) Immense diversity of lymphocytes and receptors 2) Self-tolerance: lack of reactivity against an animal's own molecules and cells 3) B and T cells proliferate after activation 4) Immunological memory
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What does the immune system do by combining variable elements?
It assembles millions of different antigen receptors from a small number of parts
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What is immunoglobulin (Ig) gene enconde?
The light chain of the B cell receptor
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What parts of the gene can produce many different chains?
V, J, and C regions
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What does the recombinase enzyme do?
Acts randomly to connect different V and J segments of the Ig gene in each B cell
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Rearrangements traits
1) Permanent 2) Passed on to daughter cells with lymphocyte division
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What happens to the rearranged genes
They are transcribed and translated to produce unique antigen receptors
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Lymphocytes mature in
1) Bone marrow 2) Thymus - Where they are tested for self-reactivity
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If lymphocytes don't pass the "test"
apoptosis
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There are ________ lymphocytes with antigen receptors for any _______
few; epitope
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What happens in lymph nodes regarding antigens?
An antigen is exposed to a steady stream of lymphocytes until a match is made
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What does the binding of a mature lymphocyte to antigen initiate?
Events that activate the lymphocyte
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Activated lymphocytes undergo
Clonal Selection
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What is clonal selection?
process of creating clones
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What are the clones of activated lymphocytes called?
effector cells
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What do effector cells do?
they act immediately against the antigen
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Effector cells that secrete antibodies are called
Plasma Cells
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What are memory cells?
Some long lived cells that give rise to effector cells if the same antigen is encountered again
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What is immunological memory responsible for?
Long-term protection against diseases
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What does the first exposure to specific antigen represent
The primary immune response: clone of lymphocytes
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What happens in the secondary immune response?
memory cells facilitate a faster, more efficient response from a reservoir of T and B memory cells
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What happens in the humoral immune response?
Antibodies help neutralize or eliminate toxins and pathogens in the blood and lymph through B cells, plasma cells
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What happens in the cell-mediated immune response?
Specialized T cells destroy affect host cell
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What do helper T cell (effector cells) activate? (2)
1) Humoral immunity 2) Cell-mediated immunity
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Where must the antigen be displayed on?
The surface of an antigen-presenting cell which allows the bind of the antigen to the receptor on the helper T cell
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What are the 2 types of Antigen Presenting proteins?
1) Class I MHC 2) Class II MHC
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What does Class 2 MHC do?
Provide molecular signature by which antigen presenting cells are recognized
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What happens when helper T cells bind to antigen and the class 2 MHC molecule
Cytokine signals are exchanged between two cells: interleukin 1 and interleukin 2
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What kind of signals are cytokine signals?
apocrine
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What happens when the helper T cell is activated
Forms a clone of helper T cells, which then activate the appropriate B cells
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What type of cells have class I MHC?
all body cells
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Which cells have Class II MHC?
1) dendritic cells 2) macrophages 3) B cells
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What is CD4?
a glycoprotein that verifies whether an antigen is really foreign
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Where is interleukin 1 released and what does it do?
it is released from the dendritic cell it proliferates the helper T cells
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Where is interleukin 2 released and what does it do? | it does 3 things
It is released from the helper T cells 1) it proliferates helper T cells 2) it activates B cells (release antibodies) 3) it activates cytotoxic T cells to become killer cells

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