Exam IV Flashcards

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Granzymes

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  • Enzyme that stimulates target cell to go into apoptosis
  • Released by NKC
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Brain Macrophage

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Microglia

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Erythema

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Redness

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Arcuate Artery

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  • Nephron circulation
  • Branch of the renal artery
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MHC Class III

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  • Complement proteins
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Epitopes

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  • Different shapes on the antigen that will have different antibodies stick to them
  • String of amino acids that folds in a particular way
  • Antibodies can distinguish between epitopes (3rd line)
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Celiac Disease

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  • Immune system attacks gluten
  • Leaky intestinal cells
  • Gut inflammation
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Creatinine Clearance

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  • Creatinine is the breakdown of creatine (from muscles)
  • Look at clearance…. essentially GFR
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TCR

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T-Cell Receptor

  • On helper T
  • CD4 is a co-receptor
  • Can see antigen in the context of MHC-2 molecule
  • MHC-2 Restricted
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Aldosterone

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  • Steroid hormone… acts on distal tubule

Actions

1. Increase Na permeability

2. Run Na/K pump… keep gradient, retain Na

  • K builds up in cell and diffiuses down K channel… goes into urine

3. Increase ATP production in mitochondria

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V Region

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Variable Region

  • 500
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Kidney Secretion

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From peritubular capillaries

Into tubules

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Basophils

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  • 0.1% of WBC
  • Produce hisamine and are involved with fighting off parasites
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Low Cl and renin

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  • Slow GFR
  • Means filtrate coming through nephron has been too slow… able to take out more Cl
  • increase renin
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What kind of molecules are antibodies?

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glycoproteins

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IgE

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Monomer

  • Mostly involved in allergies
  • Promotes the release of histamine
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Monocyte –> Macrophage

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  • Monocyte leaves cirulation at the site of immune battle
  • Crawls into battle and becomes a macrophage
  • Loses its kidney shaped membrane
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ANF Acts On

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  1. Kidney
  2. Adrenal Cortex
  3. Hypothalamus
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Timing of normal immune response

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  • IgM peak after a week
  • After 2 weeks, IgG enters the scene and IgM fades away
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Keeping Penicillin in the body longer

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  • Penicillin + PAH
  • Compete for same transporters on the proximal tubule
  • Increase the half life of penicillin in the blood
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Urea Loop

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  • Ascending limb and collecting duct are permeable to urea
  • If urea is in the collecting duct, water is reabsorbed… sucked out of the duct
  • Urea follows it and accumulates in the medulla –> absorb into ascending loop –> through distal tubule to collect duct
  • positive feedback loop that makes filtrate more and more concentrated
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Job of the kidney

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  • Filtration
  • Reabsorption
  • Secretion
  • Excretion
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What holds together protein chains on antibody?

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disulfide bonds

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Alcohol and ADH

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  • Alcohol inhibits ADH
  • Frequent urination
  • Diuresis beynd fluid you take in… dehydrated… hungover

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Germinal Centers
- Collection of immune cells - Organized to scan everything that enters the mouth Sends information to the tonsils
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Dehydration
- Increase plasma osmolarity - Decrease blood pressure
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Cytokines
- Immune messengers
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Cortical Nephrons
Have more of their body in the cortex
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Type I Diabetes
Attack beta cells in pancreas
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Hemorrhaging and Kidneys
- Mesangial cells - Decrease blood flow and blood pressure - Restrict filtration
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Neutrophil Attack
- Attack cells that are nonself - Commit suicide - Secrete cytokines and free oxygen radicals - Kill with **NETs**.... neutrophil extracellular traps - Accumulate at the site of an infection and turn into pus
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Edema
Swelling
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How we get a concentrated urine (Henle and collecting duct)
- Filtrate leaves Henle ~100 mosm - Enters collecting duct... higher osm. in the interstitial space - Water moves to higher osm - Osm gradient pulls water out of the collecting duct into the interstitial fluid - Urine filtrate ~ 1200 mosm
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Free Iron
- Microorganisms need free iron to grow - Stored in the liver and spleen Fevers reduce free iron
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Na is pumped on basolateral membrane
1. Na enters the cell (from the tubule lumen) through membrane proteins moving down its chem gradient 2. Na is pumped out into the interstitial fluid (basolateral side) by the Na/K ATPase Energy heavy process. When we get Na moving we can get other stuff to move as well.
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Kidney Filtration
From Glomerulus Into proximal tubule
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Angiotensin II Vasoconstrictor
- Constricts renal arterioles (especially **efferent)** - Increases GFR - Helps increase reabsorption in peritubular bed
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Immune Defenses of the Mouth
**First Line** - Lymph passages *germinal centers* - GCs scan what enters the mouth and sends information to the tonisls
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HLA Proteins
**3rd Line -** Human Leukocyte Antigens - Human MHC - First studied on the surface of WBCs
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Ascending Limb Loop of Henle
- Water impermeable - Ion permeable... ions pumped out in **thick limb** until filtrate is 100 mOsm - Lower part is generally passive diffusion - Concentration of solute goes down as ascend
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Monocyte
- Kidney shaped nucleus - Big - Live in the blood circulation - Eat up invaders **Major Role:** precursors for macrophages
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Red Blood Cell
- Lifespan is 120 days - Hb
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Osmolarity of filtrate in distal tubule
100 mosm
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Idiopathic Urticaria
Hives without a cause
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MHCs are Polymorphic
- The reason why we have such different tissue types on our surfaces - Protect from invading pathogens that might try to mimic surface markers on our cells - Populations with little genetic diversity are susceptible to pathogens
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Non-Specific ID Model
- **Negative Test** Second line
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Angtiotensin I
- Travels through lungs and acted upon by **ACE** --\> angiotensin II (active form)
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Innate Immune System Definition
- Built in - Already present - Always on - Non-specific
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Pale with fever
- Vasoconstriction in the periphery - Conserve heat in the core - Shivering makes more heat
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Plasma Load
**mg/min** = plasma concentration (mg/mL) \* renal plasma flow (mL/min) - Overall load into kidneys -
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Stem Cells in the Bone Marrow
- Make all the blood cells - Start as a **hemocytoblast**... pluripotent - Two brances: **myeloid** and **lymphoid** progenitors
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Cells associated with the distal tubule
Macula Densa Cells
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Vasa Recta
"Countercurrent exchanger" - Readily exchanges **Na, Cl, Water**
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Lysozyme
- In bodily secretions - Punches holes in bacterial cell walls
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Eosinophils
- 1-3% of WBC - Involved in allergies and defense against parasites
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Complement System
**Second Line** **-** 20 or so aseemble into **MAC** - Series of protein from the liver that circulate in the blood - Ability to recogize foreign cells - See foreign cell --\> assemble into membrane attack complex - Make a hole and kill - 20 proteins involved.... **C3** is at the center of the whole mechanism
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ACE Inhibitors
- Inhibits **Angiotensin Converting Enzyme** - Blocks Angtiotensin-II
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Opsonization
- Complement system and killer cells target things covered in Ab - Antibody/antigen complex facilitates phagocytosis through.... **- N*eutralization of function*** ***- Agglutination,*** ***- Precipitation*** - All of these enhance inflammatory response
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Constrict efferent arteriole
- Renal plasma flow **decreases** - GFR **increases** due to back-up pressure - Reabsorption in the peritubular bed **increases** because the fluid is not moving as quickly
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Thiazide
- Blood pressure medication - Block sodium reuptake in the distal tubule - Diuertic
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Organic Ions
Penicillin PAH (para aminohippuric acid) Aspirin Bile Salt
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Where does the process of reabsorption begin in the nephron?
Proximal tubule
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MIF
**Macrophage Inhibitor Factor** - Keeps the macrophage on the scene instead of roaming the body as it usually does
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Urushiol
- Oil on the poison ivy plant - **Delayed type hypersensitivity** - Get fluid filled swelling (from leaky vessels)
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Percent of reabsorption that occurs in the proximal tubule
**75-90%**
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Exogenous Pyrogen
Components of bacterial cell walls can induce fevers
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IBD / Crohn's
Inflammatory bowel disease - NOT IBS
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Amount of blood to kidneys
- 20% of cardiac output - 1.2 L/ min - 600 mL plasma/ min - Split evenly between the two kidneys
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Grave's and Hashimoto's
Body makes thyorid agonist/antagonist
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Reabsorption in the Proximal Tubule
1. Na is reabsorbed by active transport 2. Electrochemical gradient drives anion reabsorption 3. Water moves by osmosis following solute reabsorption 4. Concentrates of other solutes increase as fluid volume in the lumen decreases. Permeable solutes are reabsorbed by diffusion
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Secretion
Moving compounds from the blood into the proximal tubule
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Cushing's and Addison's
Body makes cortisol agonist/antagonist
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Lymphatic System Drainage
**Second Line** - Dump drainage into the thoacic duct - Then goes to subclavian veins - Collect excess fluid from the body and put back into circulation - Can get blockages in the thoracic duct... lymphodema - Drainage from the whole body except immunologically privileged sites
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T-Helper Cell Overview
- Work with other cells to improve the immune response - Some say there are two populations (1 and 2) - Have **CD4** marker on the surface
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Transmembrane Domain
- How the antibody is anchored in the membrane - Ab site is facing out
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Effect of Afferent Dilation on GFR
Dilate - increase Constrct - decrease
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ANF and Kidney
- Inhibit renin... stop AT-II cascade - Decrease AT-II, decrease reabsorption - Temporary increase GFR - Decrease Na reabsorb in tubule
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Why inhibit ADH in pregancy?
- Increase blood volume
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Antigens
- Markers on the ouside of cells that antibodies can bind to
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Filtered Load
- How much of a substance is being put into the nephrons = ([X] in plasma) \* (GFR) **mg/min**
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ADH Secretion vs. Plasma Osmolarity
- Increase plasma osmolarity (dehydration)... increase ADH
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Ammonium Ion Trap
- Some H+ secreted by kidney - Cell removes amine group from glutamine - Amine binds H+ to make ammonium (pka 9.2) - 9.2 \> 7.4 therefore stays ammonium - Pee the ammonium out
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Collecting Duct
Reabsorb water to make a concentrated urine
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Heterologous Transplant
- Someone else's tissue but with a matching tissue type (MHC match) - Usually from a relative
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Effects of increased ADH
- Increase body water - Increas blood volume - Decrease plasma osmolarity
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ACE
- Angiotensin converting enzyme ## Footnote **Angiotensin I --\> Angiotensin II**
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Angiotensin II Hypothalamus
**Increases** - Thirst - Salt hunger - ADH secretion - Water volume, BP, GFR
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Lymph Capillaries
- Have one way valves - Only flow away from tissue
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Bowman's Capsule
- Contains the **glomerulus** - In the cortex
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Antibody
- proteins that ciruclate and have the ability to bind to a specific structure called an **antigen** **3rd line**
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Pyrogen
**Second Line** - Substances in body that cause a rise in temperature
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Positive Test
**Third Line** - If you are identified as a pathogen, attack - Specific ID card model
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Angiotensin II Adrenal Cortex
Inc. Aldosterone and Inc. Sodium Retention _- This increases....._ - Water retention - BP - GFR
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Inducer T-Cells
- Stimulate the production of more T-Cells when needed
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B-Cells
**3rd Line -** **Lymphocyte** - From bone marrow - When activated become **plasma cells** - Activated form has lots of rough ER
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What does an antibody actually do?
- Mark for destruction - When foreign antigens are covered with antibodies, they are attacked more efficiently - When virus is covered in antibodies, cannot adhere to other cells (be infectious)
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Two capillary beds of the nephron
1. Glomerulus 2. Peritubular
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IL-2
- T-cell growth factor - Sitmulates the growth of more T-cells - Especially those that have formed an **immune synapse** - **Clonal selection**
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What part of the nephron is called the "countercurrent multiplier?"
Loop of Henle
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Negative Test
**Innate** - Non-specific ID model... **second line** - If you do not have the right ID markers on the cell, throw them out
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Memory cells
- After two weeks, some specific Tc cells are held in reserve as memory cells - This is **active immunity**
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ANF and Hypothalamus
Decrease ADH
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Hemocytoblast
- Root of all blood cells - Pluripotent
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Lymphedema
- Blockage of the thoracic duct - Common after breast cancer surgery
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Helper T-Cell Activated Release
1. MIF 2. IL-2 3. Stimulate thymus to push out more T cells (might involve **Ti cells**)
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Plasma Clearance
- Ability of kidney to remove solute from blood (mL/min) - How many mL of plasma are completely cleared of a given substance?
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Lymphatic Jobs
**Second Line** 1. Drainage 2. Absorb fat in the gut 3. Filter fluids it collects through checkpoints called *lymph nodes*
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Buffers in the Body to maintain pH = 7.4
- Proteins - CO2 - Kidney
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Skin Immune Function
**First Line** - Immune response when breached - Glands secrete immune defenses... low pH to inihbit bacterial growth... lysozyme in bodily secretions... antibodies
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How do we create an osmotic gradient in the nephron?
1. Loop of Henle 2. Urea Loop
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IgM
- Pentamer - First antibody secreted during primary immune response - Promotes agglutination (things sticking together) reactions
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Five Classes of Anitbodies
IgM IgG IgD IgA IgE
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T- Cells
**Lymphocyte - 3rd Line** - From the bone marrow - Go to the thymus for education - Leave thymus and are immunocompetent
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MHC Proteins
**3rd Line**- Major Histocompatibility Complex - Type of cell surface ID marker - **Three classes** - In humans referred to as HLA proteins - Polymorphic
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Angiotensinogen and Obesity
- High BP and hypertension - More visceral fat you have, the more angiotensinogen in circulation... - Increase AT-II, increase sodium/water retention, increase BP
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Tc is MHC-1 Restricted
- Can only see antigen in the context of MHC-1 - **Clonal selection** - TCR on Tc recognize foreign antibodies on MHC-1 - Only in synapse stimulated by IL-2
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Cells associated with the afferent arteriole
Juxtaglomerular Cells
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Allergic Response
- Respond to **allergen** - B cells ab receptors bind to allergen... convert to plasma cell - Produce IgE which stick to surface of mast cell - Mast cells accumulate granules full of **histamine** - Later exposure causes histamine release
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Osmolarity
particles per liter
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Fab Sequence
- Some constant areas - Variablity towards top (part involved in recognition) - Especially variable parts are **hypervariable regions**
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Burn Victims
- No skin, lose water, dehydration - Need urea to maintain osmotic gradient and promote reabsorption - More reabsorb, less urine, less dehydration
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Descending Limb Loop of Henle
- Permeable to water - Impermeable to salt - Suck water out - Increase concentration of filtrate in tubule - Do this to set up ascending limb
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Autoregulation in the Kidney
- Monitor **Na** and **Cl** (mostly Cl) concentrations in the distal tubule by macula densa cells - MDC talk to JC cells which release renin - Do not know how the communitcation works
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Signals for Renin Release
1. NaCl (Cl more important) 2. Sympathetic neurons signal JG cells 3. Decrease the perfusion pressure in the afferent arteriole
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Normal release of antibody
IgM then IgG
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D Region
- Diversity region - 15 of them
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Cyclosporin
Immunosuppressant Drug - Kidney transplants
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Tonsils
- 6... three sets of pairs - **Palatine** are the ones you can see **- Lingual** at the base of the tongue **- Adenoids** are behind and above the uvula
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Immunologically Privileged Sites
- Do not have normal blood circulation therefore do not have lymph - Cartilage, cornea
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EPO
Erythropoietin - Increase RBC production
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Third Line of Defense
**Specific** - Lympocytes (T-Cells) - B Cells - Cell surface ID makrers - Specific ID Card Model
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Fever as a defense mechanism
**Goals** - Slow growth of microorganisms - Reduce free iron - Increase activity of phagocytes
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Percent of filtrate that we reabsorb
99%
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Humoral Immunity
**Phase III** - Free antigen any form - IL-2 and IL-4 - B cells making the antibody (effector)
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NETs
**Neutrophil Extracellular Traps** - Throw a bunch of fibers (DNA) - Ropes up invaders and holes them in place while the immmune system finishes them off
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Rheumatoid Arthritis
Attack connective tissue
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Newborn Mice Skin Experiment
- Transplant regions of skin from another species of mice onto the skin of young mice - Will tolerate - Only young cells... no memory for immune response/ rejection
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Plasma Clearance
- Ability of the kidney to remove a solute form blood **Excretion rate = ([x] in plasma) \* (plasma clearance)** mg/min - Can use the plasma clearance of a substance that is *only filtered* (not reabsorb or secrete) i.e. inulin or creatine
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Cimetidine
- Histamine antagonist - For gastric ulcers - Competes with cardiac drugs for arrythmia - Easy to overdose if taking both
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MAC
**Membrane Attack Complex** - Second line complement system - Make a hole in foreign cell and kill it **C3** is at the center of the whole mechanism
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IgG
- Secreted in secondary response - Most abundant form of antibody in the blood - Monomer
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Things that are not filtered in the glomureulus
- RBC - WBC - Large protein
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Skin Secretion Defenses
- Low pH - Lysozyme - Antibodies
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Thoracic Duct
- Gets drainage from the lymph system - Dumps it into the subclavian veins - Can get blocked... called **lymphodema**
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Lung Macrophage
Dust Cell
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Autoimmune Mimicry
- T cells presented with an antigen by a virally-infected cell on its MHC-1 - Viral antigen is the same as self-antigen (coincidence) - T-cells continue to attack self-antigen
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Kidney Output
Renin Vitamin D3 (Calcitriol) EPO
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Histamine
- Allergic reactions - Cause swelling, leaky vessels, itching - Release promoted by IgE
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Heavy Chain Diversity
V\*J\*D 37,500
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Lupus
Systematic - Immune system attacks all over the face Butterfly rash
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Functional Unit of the Kidney
**Nephron** **-** Part in cortex, part in medulla - 1 million nephrons in a kidney
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Regulatory T-Cells
- We think they have CD4 - Turn down immune response - Unclear how they work
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Fate of H+ From Kidney
- Make H2CO3 - Combine with phosphoric acid which can be deprotonated as needed - Ammonium Ion Trap
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Cell Mediated Immunity
- MHC-1 proteins display viral antigens - Tc use **CD8** to recognize antigens in MHC-1 groove and form **immune synapse** (Tc and MHC restricted) - Tc cells in synapse do nothing until Th cells recognize antigens on macrophage MHC-2 receptors and secrete **IL-2**... then cytotoxic and replication(clonal selection) - Takes a week to get peak response - After 2 weeks, Ts cells turn down the response
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Anaphylaxis
- An accute allergic reaction to an antigen to which the body has become hypersensitive
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Pathogens Evade Immune Response
- Hide inside a cell - Knock out Th cells - Waxy exterior - Change surface antigens
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Worms and Autoimmune Diseases
Inhibit T Cells - Increase Tr activity/ stimulate release of inihibitory cytokines - Promoting helpful gut microflora
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Increase in blood loss
- Decrease BP - Sympathetic input for **mesangial cell contraction** - Shuts down the glomerulus - Shuts down areas of kidneys to retain fluid and try to raise BP
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Neutrophils
- Lifespan is 8 hours - Phagocytic - Multilobed nucleus - Increase in number during infection - Can consume invading cells **Major Job:** attack cells that are nonself
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Cytotoxic T-Cells
- Killing ability for certain infected cells - Have **CD8** marker on their surface
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ADH
- Increases the permeability of water in collecting duct - When ADH is low make a less concentrated urine because the duct is not permeable to water.
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Immune Surveillance
**Second Line** - Detects invaders (or cancers) - Eliminated things often before we know they are there! If there is a defect in immune surveillance, more infections and cancer
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Blocking SGLT-2
- Treatment for type II diabetes - Block glucose uptake so it does not get across - Glucose stays in lumen, pee it out.
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Renal Plasma Flow
- Measures plasma flowing into nephrones through glo. - GFR varies with RPF - Flow rate is constant over a wide variety of arterial pressures... only fluctates at extremes
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Signals for aldosterone release
- High angiotensin - High K+
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Enlarged Spleen
- Splenomegaly - Lymphoma, leukemia, mono - Binds up platelets - Fewer platelets in circulation and perhaps issues clotting
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Dilate afferent arteriole
**Increase** flow and filtration
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IL in Phase III
**2 and 4** - Converts activated B cells to plasma cell - Antibody made in plasma cell is specific to pathogen - B cells and free antibodies bind to the antigen/invader in any form
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Light and Heavy Diversity (numbers)
37,500\*1500 = **56 million antibody binding specificities**
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Constrict afferent arteriole
Decrease flow and filtration
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Transport Maximum
- Transporters in nephron are saturated = (filtered load) - (excretion rate) **+** = reabsorb **-** = secreted
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T-Cell Activation
- Ciruclate around like regular old lymphocytes - When activated cell changes.... Get larger More cytoplasm Getting ready for battle
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Inflammation
**Non-specific response** - A call to arms - There has been a breach of the first line... assemble! - Makes blood vessels in the area **leaky** **- Edema and erythema**
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B-Cell Education
- Do not know where it is happening - Think it occurs in circulation
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Interferon
**Second Line** - Proteins that warn of infection - Cell realizes its been compromised by a pathogen... releases interferons to notify other cells - Alpha, beta, gamma types - Local cells alter metabolism to resist viruses (slow their replication processes)... reduce transcription, shorten half-life of RNA
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Graft vs. Host Disease
- Try to do an allogeneic transplant with bone marrow - Body attacks transplanted tissue
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Where does the reabsorbed water go?
**Vasa recta** off the peritubular bed Deep in the medulla
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Things that increase ADH
- Increas plasma osmolarity - Decrease blood pressure
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Filtration forces
- Protein not filtered in GFR - Blood into efferent arteriole has increase oncotic pressure - Use oncotic pressure to help with reabsorption Net filtration pressure is **10 mm Hg**
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Aplastic Anemia
- Stop making blood cells - Can occur with no known cause - Also from exposure to chemicals, pathogens - Treat with a bone marrow transplant
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Three Phases of Immune Response
**Phase I:** - Initial, nonspecific - Antigen presentation - Th (specific) **Phase IIa:** cell mediated immunity **Phase IIb:** humoral immunity
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Class Switch
- Preserve VDJ - Change c regaion (Fc)
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Inulin
- Polysaccharide from plants - Filtered, not reabsorbed or secreted
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IgA
- Dimer - Found in bodily secretions (breast milk, tears, saliva, mucus)
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Edward Jenner
- Noticed that women who worked with cows never got smallpox (though they got cowpox- less severe, survivable) - Inject kid with cowpox... first vaccine
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4 things that contribute to G.O.D
Somatic Recombination Combinatorial Diversity Imprecision around J regions Somatic Mutation
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Things that influence the kidney
Aldosterone ADH ANF Sympathetic Nervous System PTH Angiotensin II
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Hygiene Hypothesis
- We are too clean - Not enough enemies for immune system... boredom --\> overrations **Evidence**: Finland vs. Russia, worse in western world, farmers have less autoimmune diseases - Worm thing
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Self-Tolerance Mechanism in T-Cells
- Prevent T cells from attacking self - Must receive 2 signals before attack 1. binding of antigen to T-cell receptor 2. Secretion/binding of a protein **B7**... if T cell is exposed to a self protein that is presented on a nonstimulatory cell, T cell will *die or become inactive*
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APC
**Antigen Presenting Cell** - Material presenting derives from thing eaten Macrophage
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Plasma Cell
- Th and B in synapsis - Th release **IL-4** and B cell turns into plasma cell - Plasma cell works as antibody factory that is *pathogen specific* - Release ab into blood and lymph where they can bind pathogens and antigen presenting cells through **opsonization**
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SGLT-2
- Sodium glucose transporter 2 - In proximal tubule cells on the tubule lumen side
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MHC-1
Found on all cells Diplays internally synthesized peptides
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J Region
- Joining Region - Joining the variable parts of the C region - 5
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Ureter
Drains kidney into bladder
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Natriuresis
- Excretion of Na in urine - Caused by ANF - Increase volume of urine because osmotic forces make water follow Na
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Kidney Reabsorption
From tubules Into peritubular capillaries
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TCR is MHC-2 Restricted
- T-cells only detect antigen when it is being presented by MHC-2
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Interleukin-1
- Cytokine - Endogenous pyrogen - Stimulatesd more T-Cell synthesis (especially helper T cells)
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Killer Cell
- Punch holes in cells covered in antibodies
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Artery in the kidney
Arcuate artery
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C3
- At the center of the MAC
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Immune Synapse
- Th cell attached to macrophage's **MHC-2** using **TCR** - **CD4** on Th acts like co-receptor - Th cell is *activated* after synapse forms - Macrophage secretes **IL-1** - Th: secretes **MIF** and **IL-2**
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Where can pathogens hide?
Phagocytes, in an endosome **TB and Plague** RBCs **Malaria** Digestive Epithelium **Salmonella**
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Thick Limb Loop of Henle
- Filled with ion pumps for **Na, K, Cl** - Pump out enough salt so the osmolarity inside is ~ 100 mosm at the top
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Lymph Nodes
- Checkpoints - Small organs with same lymphatic arrangement - Survey what happens in the fluid that passes through - Send warning signals if something is fishy - **immune surveillance**
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Fc
- Same for all antibodies in the same class - Is what signals for destruction - Signals that antibodies are present and stuck to things
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Control of body temperature
hypothalamus
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Diapedesis
- Phagocyte mobilization - Immune cells squeeze through spaces in epithelial cell lining capillaries to get to where they need to be
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Kidney Excretion
From collecting duct Into urine
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Lasix
- Drug - Diuretic - Inhibits ion pumps in the thick ascending limb - **Na, Cl, K** stay in the ascedning limb... go into urine, take water with them
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Glucose Absorption
- Use a Na/Glucose cotransporter **SGLT-2** - Glucose moves in through GLUT-2 - Use ATP pump that lowers Na to make gtadient
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Autologous Transplant
- Get your own tissue - Happens in some kinds of cancer - Risky but can work
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Immune system "ehancers"
- Science: none of them *prevent* infection but can minimally shorten duration of symptoms Zinc, vitamin C, chicken soup (thins mucus, mildly anti-inflammatory)
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Second Line of Defesne
**Innate** "Cellular mechanisms, specific proteins, other things..." - Lymphatic - Bone Marrow - Non-specific cells - Other (interferon, temperature, complement) - Inflammation - Pattern recognition receptors - Non-specific ID model
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Macula Densa Cells
- Along the outside of the distal tubule - Monitor [Na] and [Cl] in tubule
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ANF
**Atrial Natriuretic Factor** - From right atrium of heart - Stretch RA - release ANF - Results in **natriuresis** (increase in urine flow mostly due to Na excretion... temporary) - Happens when there is too much body fluid
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Lymphocytes
- **3rd Line, specific immune cells** - About the size of an RBC - Large nucleus takes up most of hte cytoplasm - have surface mounted receptors they use to bind to target antigens Examples: T-Cells and B-Cells
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Delayed Type Hypersensitivity
- Takes 1-3 days - Classic example is poison ivy
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Spleen
- Bag of blood and immune cells - Pneumonia fighting cells in the spleen - Many disorders worsen if spleen is not working - Thin membrane... can rupture/ get injured... removal
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Myasthenia Gravis
Affects ACh receptors in the thymus
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Immune Repertoire
**3rd Line** - All of your receptors and antibodies that can recognize antigens
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Natural Killer Cells
- Punch holes in nonself cells - Secretory granules with perforin protein... dump into target cell - Perforin assembles into a complex that makes a big round hole - Also releases ranzymes - Important for immune surveillance
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Juxtamedullary Nephrons
- Longer nephrons - Will focus on these ones
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Nephron Circulation
- Blood intro the glomerulus through an **afferent arteriole** - Leaves via the **efferent arteriole** - Efferent art. breaks into a cappillary bed that surrounds the proximal and distal tubules called the **peritubular capillary bed**
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Decrease in Cl reaction cascade
**Angioteninsogen + Renin** **Angiotensin I** ACE **Angiotensin II**
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Gamma Interferon
- Acts as an immune cytokine - Has been used for some cancer treatments with some success
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Class I MHC
- Glycoprotein - Have a groove for antigen peptide present for recognition - Found on *all nucleated cells* - Receptors: **heavy** and **beta-2-microglobulin**
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What happens to the 120 mL/min?
- Some becomes urine - A LOT is reabsorbed
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Perforin
- Protein released by NKC - Dumps into target cell - Assembles into a complex that makes a round hole
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Opsonization
- If you have a chunk of invading organism with antibodies gets eaten more easily
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pH of body
7.4
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Things the nephron can reabsorb
- Glucose - Ions - Water
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Peyer's Patches
**First Line** - Similar to lymphoid areas - In intestinal tract - Think they're monitoring what comes in
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How HIV infects cells
- Need **CD4** receptor to infect - Surface marker on virus attacks CD4 on T-Cells - Needs **CCR5** co-receptor - There are pepople with CCR5 mutation who are immune to HIV
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Skin body weight percentage
15%
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Reabsorbing from the proximal tubule goes into....
The preitubular capillary bed
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What is our protection from high K?
ALDOSTERONE
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Net filtration pressure
10 mm Hg
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Graft Rejection
Example of **cell mediated immunity** - When someone rejects a graft it is usually CMI
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Loop of Henle
- Sets up our osmotic gradient
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Pattern Recognition Receptors
- Integral proteins in phagocytic cell membranes - Recognize traditional forms of pathogens (bacteria, virus, fungi, parasites) in a non-specific way - Sends out signals... warning for the rest of the immune system to say something has been detected - Worked on by **Charles Janeway**
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Cow Pox
- Difference between cow and small pox is so small that T and B cells involved in immune response cannot tell the difference - **Edward Jenner**
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Mesangial Cells
- Innervated by the sympathetic nervous system - Have the ability to contract and close off regions of the capillary bed (stop blood flow) - If hemorrhaging.... decrease blood volume and pressure, restrict filtration
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Pathogen that changes surface antigens
Typanosomes
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Appendix
**2nd Line** - Unsure what it is doing - Think it might be a reservoir for immune cells and certain types of gut bacteria - Think it helps set up a young person's immune system
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Where does urine become concentrated?
Collecting Duct
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Angiotensinogen
- Made in liver, circulates blood - Renin + Angiotensinogen --\> Angiotensin I - Also produced by adipose tissue
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Autoimmune Diseases
- Immune education goes awry and lymphocytes attack self antigens - Some have a genetic component - Triggered by **autoimmune mimicry** after a viral infection
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Sympathetic Neurons and JG Cells
- Sympathetic resonse if decrease in blood pressure - Decrease BP ... Increase renin
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The G.O.D. Search
- Not millions of genes... different regions that can be organized in different ways ## Footnote **C** **J** **D** **V**
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Anergy
Non-reactive T-Cells
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Distal Tubule
- Where filtration occurs (after we have reabsorbed in the proximal tubule and gone through the loop of Henle)
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Juxtagolmerular Apparatus
- JG cells + MD cells
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MHC Class II
Glycoprotiens - Found ont he surface of immune cells (**macrophages, B-cells, *some* T-Cells)** - Groove for antigen peptide present for recognition
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Somatic Mutation
- Get mutations during transition to plasma cell
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Angtiotensin II
Potent Vasoconstrictor Acts on... - Adrenal cortex - Hypothalamus
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IgD
- Monomer - More specialized - Surface of B cells... serves as a receptor
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Two controls of Aldosterone
1. Renin 2. K+ levels in the blood
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J region and diversity
- Deltion in J region is not precise - also **somatic mutation**
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Four Types of T-Cells
Helper Inducer Cytotoxic Suppressor/Regulatory
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Alpha Interpherons
- Stimulate the natural killer cells
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Asthma
Attack tissues in airways --\> inflammation
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What happens in the thymus gland (immune system)?
T-cell education
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CD Markers
- Clusters of differentiation - Surface markers on immune cells - Important ones are **CD4** and **CD8** **3rd Line**
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Pathogen that knocks out Th cells
HIV
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Concetrated Urine
- To combat dehydration - 4 times more concentrated than blood - **U/P Ratio** 1200 m osmolar / 200 m osm
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Scleroderma
Body makes anti-centromere antibodies - Too much collagen - alopecia, flare-ups
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Decrease Perfusion Pressure in Afferent Arterioles
- Afferent arteriole can monitor pressure - If there is a decrease in pressure, signals an **increase in renin**
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Protein as a buffer
- Use COOH to donate hydrogens - Use amino group to accept hydrogen pK fro proteins = 7.4 Mostly R groups but could be backbone too
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Juxtaglomerular Cells
- Associated with the afferent arteriole - Release **renin** into afferent arteriole - Get a series of reactions to *stabilize GFR*
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Water reabsorption without ADH
- Osmotic gradient - Not permeable to water - Water goes through collecting duct
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Light Chain Diversity
1500
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Liver Macrophage
Kupffer's Cells
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Blood Pressure Medications
- Many are diuretics in the class **thiazide** - Block sodium reuptake in the distal tubule - Stop Na reabsorbtion, leaves in urine and water follows - Decrease blood volume, decrease BP
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Antigen Presentation
**Phase I** - Macrophage will take what it has eaten abd break it down with digestive enzymes in the lysosome - Take piece of peptide and put it on MHC molecule - Present on MHC-2
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Immunocompetent
- Lymphocytes shown a bunch of self antigens in thymus - Any T-cell that sticks toa self antigen gets killed - The ones that pass the test go into the circulation and we say they are immunocompetent
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Standard Glomerular Filtration Rate | (GFR)
- Kidney gets 600 mL of plasma/min **- standard GFR of 120 mLs/min** - The other 480 mL go through the efferent tubule into the peritubular beds
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Podocytes
- Specialized cells that surround capillaries - Control filtration - In charge of selection based on size
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Two types of protein chains on antibody
2 Heavy Chains 2 Light chains
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Adaptive Immune System Definition
Very specific
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C Region
- Constant Portion - Gene
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Macrophage as an APC
- Break up virus - Display peptides from the virus on cell surface Macrophage saying *"invader here this is what it looks like*" - Displayed antigen is seen by the **TCR** on the helper T cells
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Somatic Recombination
- During the maturation of a lymphocyte --\> B-Cell... chooses certain genes with four regions through random selection - DNA splicing -
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Kidney Osmotic Gradient
Cortex: 300 m osm Medulla: 1200 m osm
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Dendritic Cell/ Langerhan's Cells
- Skin macrophage - Found in the tissue exposed to the exterior
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B7
- Protein that is the second signal in activating a T cell - If not present and bound, T cell will become inactive or die
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Excretion Rate
How much of a substance is being secreted in urine = ([X] in urine) \* (Urine output) **mg/min**
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TB Test
- Delayed hypersensitivity - Tuerculin skin test - If raised or red, have been exposed to TB (do not necessarily hvae it, but need further tests)
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How ADH Promotes Water Reabsorption
1. ADH binds to membrane receptor 2. Receptor activates **cAMP** second messenger system 3. Cell interts AQP2 water pores into apical membrane 4. Water is absorbed by osmosis into the blood
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Allergy Symptoms
- Leaky vessels - Swelling - Runny nose - Mucus release - Low BP - Sneezing
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Pathogen with a waxy exterior
Leprosy
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First Line of Defense
Physical and biological barrier between body and the outside world - Skin - Openings in the skin - Peyer's Patches
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Charles Janeway
**Pattern Regocnition Receptors** - Had a theory that if your innate mechanisms were not working then your immune response would be weak - Found PRPs
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Kidney and Secretion
- Secrete things in proximal tubule - Organic ion transporters - Take ions out of the blood put them through tubule - Antiporter brings in ion from blood... when ion goes to lumen, exchange for a like charge from lumen
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Effect of efferent dilation on flow
Constrict - increase flow
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Subclavian Veins
- Get fluid form the thoracic duct - Collect excess fluid from the body and put back into circulation
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Burn Victims and Urea
- Dehydration - Need urea in diet (protein) to get fully functioning osmotic gradient - Low protein diets made dehydration worse
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ANF and adrenal cortex
Decrease aldosterone
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Macrophages
**Big Eaters** - From monocyte precursors - Live in tissues - Different names specific to different tissues
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Allogeneic Transplant
- Someone else's tissue tissue but not a tissue match - Will not work with bone marrow (because of immune cells)
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Clonal Selection
- Going to activate and replicate only those T cells that are specific to this infection and let other T cells rest
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Humoral Immunity
- B cells have antibody molecules on membrane - Recognize pathogen... bind and eat - After this, work with Th like macrophages do - In synapsis, Th secrete **IL-4**... activates B cell and turns into **plasma cell**