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Infection and Response Flashcards

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What are the 4 disease-causing pathogens ?

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Viruses, Protists, Bacteria, Fungi

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What is a pathogen ?

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Microorganisms that cause infectious diseases

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How can pathogens be spread ?

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  • Direct Contact
  • Air
  • Water
  • Vectors
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What is a Vector ?

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an organism that carries a pathogen and can pass it on but is not infected

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How can the spread of pathogens be prevented ?

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  • good hygiene
  • destroying or controlling vectors
  • isolating infected individuals
  • vaccinations
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What are Viruses ?

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Viruses are very small particles capable of infecting every type of living organism.

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Types of Viral Pathogens

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  • Measles
  • HIV
  • Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV)
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How do bacteria pathogens cause disease ?

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They divide rapidly by splitting in two. They may produce toxins that affect your body and make you feel ill.

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How do virus pathogens cause disease ?

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Viruses take over the cells of your body. They live and reproduce inside the cells, damaging and destroying them

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Salmonella

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  • spread in food bacteria and caused by unhygienic kitchen environment.
  • all chickens are vaccinated against it
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Gonorrhoea

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  • used to be treated by penicillin
  • treated by antibiotics
  • wear a condom
  • get tested and vaccinated to prevent spread
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Measles

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  • it is a virus

- spread in droplets when someone coughs or sneezes

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HIV

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  • can be treated by antiretroviral drugs which stop virus multiplying which stop it from going onto to develop AIDS
  • drugs not a cure but has to be taken for the rest of your life
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Malaria

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  • bouts of fever
  • protist
  • stop vector from breeding by draining or insecticide areas of still water
  • use a mosquito when sleeping to stop mosquito from entering.
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Antibodies

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  • produced by lymphocytes
  • lymphocytes produce antibodies against anything foreign
  • scientists call foreign objects like this antigens
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Monoclonal Antibodies

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  • Inject mouse with antigen then lymphocytes will produce antibodies against the antigen
  • Collect lymphocytes from mouse
  • They don’t divide by mitosis so they fuse with tumour cell which are very good are dividing by mitosis
  • This produced a hybridoma cell
  • Select a single hybridoma cell with the antibody we want
  • Allow division to form clones which are identical
17
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Monoclonal Antibodies are….

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specific to one binding site or one antigen

18
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Pregnancy Test

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  • it detects a specific hormone
  • cheap and easy to use
  • highly accurate
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Lab Testing

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  • measure levels of hormones in blood

- detect pathogens in blood

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Locating MAB

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locate or identifying specific molecules

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Treating Diseases

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  • specific to cancer cells
  • attach radioactive substance or toxic drug to the antibody
  • which attaches to cancer cell and stop it from growing and dividing
22
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Testing Medicines

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toxicity , efficacy and dosage

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Foxglove

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digitalis

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Willow Tree

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aspirin

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Preclinical Testing

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  • carried out on cells, tissues and live animals
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Clinical Testing

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  • very low doses given to healthy volunteers

- to test for dosage

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Placebo

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a tablet or injection with no active drug in it

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Double - blind trial

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  • test group receive active drug
  • Placebo group receive a dummy drug but not active
  • neither doctors nor patients know which people have the placebo and active drug to stop bias
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Nitrate Deficiency

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Plants use nitrates as a supply of nitrogen, which is needed to make proteins for healthy growth.

Without nitrates, the amount of chlorophyll in leaves reduces. This means leaves turn a pale green or yellow colour. This reduces the plant’s ability to photosynthesise and grow properly.

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Magnesium Deficiency

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Plants use magnesium ions to make chlorophyll in their leaves. Like in nitrate deficiency, the plant is limited in terms of its photosynthetic ability and the plant growth is compromised.

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Symptoms of Infection in Plants

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  • Stunted growth from mealybugs
  • Spots on leaves caused by the rose black spot fungus
  • Decay caused by the rice blast fungus
  • Malformed stems or leaves caused by the ash dieback
    fungus
  • Discoloration caused by the tobacco mosaic virus
  • The present of pests (aphids)
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Physical Defences

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  • thick bark
  • cellulose cell wall
  • leaves covered with a waxy cuticle
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Chemical Defences

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  • mint and witch hazel produce antibacterial chemicals.

- stinging nettles, have developed poisons to stop themselves being eaten by herbivores

34
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Other defences

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Farmers can now genetically engineer crop plants to be resistant to infections.

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Mechanical Defences

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  • Thorns and hairs
  • Drooping leaves - evolved to close its leaves and then
    point its stems towards the ground when touched by
    an insect
  • Mimicry - Some plants have evolved the ability to
    mimic what is around them

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