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What tissues are involved in innate immunity?

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skin and mucous membranes

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What cells are involved in innate immunity?

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macrophages, neutrophils, NK cells

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In innate immunity, what is the barrier and what does it do?

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  • skin
  • barrier to infection
  • kills microbes
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Besides the barrier, how else are microbes killed?

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intraepithelial lymphocytes

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What are the characteristics of neutrophils?

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  • MOST ABUNDANT
  • short lived
  • phagocytic
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What are the characteristics of macrophages?

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  • activated from monocytes
  • found in tissues NOT blood
  • phagocytic
  • present Ags to adaptive system
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What are the characteristics of dendritic cells?

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  • found in tissues open to external environment
  • phagocytic
  • present Ags to adaptive system
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What are the characteristics of NK cells?

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  • found in blood and spleen
  • not phagocytic
  • cytotoxic lymphocyte, but still apart of innate system
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How do immune cells recognize pathogens?

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Pattern Recognition Receptor (PRR) that recognize pathogenic molecule patterns

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What are Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRR)?

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  • inherited through germline
  • located on cell surface & cytoplasm
  • ex: toll-like receptor (TLR)
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What are the microbe signals?

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danger signals called PAMPs that are associated with microbial function

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What are the symptoms of inflammation?

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  • redness (rubor)
  • swelling (calor)
  • pain (dolor)
  • loss of function
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What happens during inflammation?

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macrophages and neutrophils release inflammatory cytokines -> IL-1, IL-6, TNF-alpha, chemokines

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What is the result of inflammation?

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  • more cells coming to area
  • fever -> inflammatory cytokines act on hypothalamus
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What is the process of PAMPs and inflammation?

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  1. bacteria enters and activates innate system
  2. chemo and cytokines create open space in membrane (inflammation process)
  3. endothelial receptors bring in IL-6 and IL-1
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What are natural killer cells?

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  • cytotoxic lymphocyte
  • common in blood & spleen
  • self-defense: targets infected, stressed, or tumurous cells
  • decrease in number as we change
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What is the direct killing pathway for NK cells?

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  • release perforins & granzymes
  • synthesize & secrete cytokines
  • does NOT need Abs
  • no formal presentation of Ags
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What is the indirect pathway of NK cells?

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  • phagocytic cells detect Ags
  • produce cytokines
  • cytokine stimulate NK cells to release other cytokines
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What do cytokines act on?

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  • cells that produce them -> autocrine
  • closely located cell -> paracrine
  • cells at a distance -> endocrine
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What is the alternative system?

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  • compliment proteins interact with pathogenic proteins to be activated
  • does NOT require Abs
  • part of innate immune system
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What is the classical system?

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  • compliment proteins react to Ab that is bound to Ag -> activation
  • part of adaptive immune system
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What is the primary cell of the adaptive immune system?

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lymohocytes (T & B cells)

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What are B cells?

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  • educated in the bursa of chickens (bone marrow in humans)
  • function to make Abs
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What are T cells?

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  • educated in the thymus
  • function in cell mediated immunity
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What is positive and negative selection?
* positive: occurs if cell reacts to selg Ags -> cell survives * negative: occurs if cell reacts to self Ag too much -> cell destroyed
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When T and B cells are stimulated what do they produce?
* T cell -> cytokines * B cells -> become plasma cells and produce Abs
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What are secondary lymphoid tissues?
* lymph nodes * spleen * gut associated lymphoid tissue
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What is the structure of lymph nodes and gut associated lymphoid tissues?
* outer cortex composed of follicles with B cells * inner cortex composed of T cells * medulla with large numbers of plasma cells
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What is the spleen composed of?
* white pulp: surrounds central artery * red pulp: 80% of spleen & surrounds white pulp
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What is clonal selection?
when Ag stimulates cell recpetors on lymphocytes to result in production of memory & effector cells
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What is humoral immune response?
* Abs * produced by activated B cells * have heavy and light chains * classes: IgG, IgA, IgA, IgE, IgD
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What is the immunoglobulin structure?
* 2 heavy & 2 light chains * variable domain -> binds to Ags * constant region -> does NOT bind to Ags
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How are loops made in the immunoglobulin structure?
with disulfide bonds
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Where on the immunoglobulin structure do antibodies differ from one another?
Ag binding site
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What immunoglobulin family do B cells express?
IgM monomers
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What is the difference between IgM pentamers & monomers?
secreted IgM = pentamer IgM on B cell surface = monomer
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What are T cell independent antigens?
* does NOT require T cell presentation * have multiple repeating subunits * produce IgM only
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In antibodies, what is a pentamer? Dimer? Monomer?
* pentamer -> IgM * dimer -> IgA * monomer -> IgG, IgD, IgE
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What are T cell dependent antigens?
* require T cell presentation * protein Ags * allows for class switching -> can produce different Abs

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