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What are the primary lymphoid organs?

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Thymus and bone marrow

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Name 4 secondary lymphoid organs

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Tonsils
Lymph nodes
Spleen
Peyers patches

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What are peyers patches?

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Lymphoid tissue in wall of small intestine

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What is the lamina propria?

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Mucose associated secondary lymphoid tissue- thin layer of connective tissue below epithilium

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How long does a lymphocyte spend in an organ before it recirculates?

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1-2 days

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How do lymphocytes leave peripheral tissue?

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They drain out of tissue as tissue fluid via the lymphatics system to the lymph nodes (afferent lymphatics)

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How do lymphocytes return to the blood from the lymph nodes?

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Out of lymph nodes via efferent lymphatics and back to blood mainly via thoracic duct

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Name the polymorphonuclear leucocytes

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Neutrophils
Eosinophils
Basophils
Mast cells

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Name the granulocytes

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Neutrophils
Eosinophils
Basophils

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Example of anti microbial secreted mediators

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Antibodies, complement proteins

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Name regulatory/inflammatory mediators of immunity

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Cytokines and histamine

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What two things does the innate system recognise?

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Pathogen associated molecular patterns (pamps) eg. Viral ds DNA and pathogen recognition receptors ( PRRs) eg toll like receptors

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What is an antigen?

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Anything that is recognised by a lymphocyte

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What is the first immune response after skin is cut?

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Immediate local innate response- complement proteins and macrophages

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What is the early induced response?

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Innate/inflammatory: inflammatory mediators from complement macrophages and mast cells attract leucocytes and serum proteins

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What happens during the later adaptive response?

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Antigen carriage by dendritic cells or freely in lymph fluid results in lymphoid tissue activation of T and B lymphocytes and antibody recirculation to site of infection

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How long does it take for the adaptive immune response to kick in?

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5-7 days

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What is the response to extra cellular infection?

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Complement proteins, phagocytes and antibodies

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What is he response to intercellular vesicular infection?

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Helper t-cells if macrophage can’t digest it alone

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Intra-cellular cytosolic infection? Eg viruses

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Interferon proteins, natural killer cells and cytotoxic cells

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What is immunopathology

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Diseases involving defects in or inappropriate activity of the immune system

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What does the cytokines IL-6 do?

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Stimulates the liver to produce and excrete acute phase protein- c- reactive pro time and man in binding lectin

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What does C-reactive protein do?

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C reactive protein acts as a pattern recognition protein. It binds to phosphocholine which is part of the bacterial lipopolysaccharides

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What does man in binding lectin do?

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Binds to mannose residues in bacterial carbohydrate

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Give examples of macrophages PRRs
Mannose receptors, glucagon receptors, LPS receptors
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What are toll like receptors?
Proteins expressed on macrophages and dendritic cells that recognise Structurally conserved molecules derived from microbes
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How many antigen receptors and how many pamps are expressed by lymphocytes?
Millions of antigen receptors and ~100 pamps
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What do you call antibody particles attached to b-cell surface?
Surface immunoglobulins (SIG)
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What happens when an antigen binds to a SIG?
This triggers the B cell to become a plasma cell that secretes antibodies
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True or false a B cell has thousands of SIG that all recognise the same epitope
True
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What are B cells that recognise the same antigen called?
B cell clones
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What do B cells do before they become a plasma cell?
They proliferate. Some stay as memory B cells
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What are B cells called that have never seen an antigen before?
Naive cells
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What is used for tetanus immunisation?
Tetanus toxoid (inactive but structurally identical form)
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Name the two types of light chains
Kappa (k) and lambda
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What are the heavy chains for IgA, IgE, IgG IgM and IgD
Mu, alpha, gamma, delta, epsilon
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How many types of IgG is there and how many types of IgA?
Four types of IgG (1,2,3,4) and two types of IgA (1,2)
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What is the area of an Ig that binds antigen called?
Fab: fragment antigen binding made up of one constant and variable chain of both heavy and light
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What is the FC region
Fragment crystallisable region. Made up of constant heavy domains of antibody. Interact with cell surface FC receptors
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How is an Ig class defined?
From constant domains of heavy chain.
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How are chains held together?
By covalent bonds.
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What encodes the heavy chains?
2 separate genes- 1 for variable and 1 for constant
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What are B cells all originally programmed to produce?
IgM and some IgD
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How many antigen combining sites does IgM have?
10. It is a pentamer
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Which Ig forms a secretory dimer?
IgA
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Which Ig are monomers?
IgE, IgD and IgG
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Where is IgM mostly found?
The blood
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Where is IgG mostly found?
Blood, tissue and placental tranfer
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Where is IgA and IgA dimer found?
IgA in blood and tissues and the dimer in mucosal secretions and milk.
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Where is IgE found?
In tissues bound to mast cells
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Where is Iga1 and iga2 mostly found?
Iga1 is mostly found in serum an iga2 is mostly found in secretions
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What keeps IgM structure together?
Disulphide bonds and a joining chain
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Where is IgD found
Found in membrane of immature B cells and can also be secreted in serum

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