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What is the immune system?

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A complex network of cells/soluble molecules which interact with one/other to remove foreign material from the body

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What two types of pathogens does the immune system destroy?

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  • Intracellular

- Extracellular

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What are the intracellular pathogens destroyed by the immune system? (2)

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  • Viruses (reproduce in cell)

- Some bacteria

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What are the extracellular organisms destroyed by the immune system? (4)

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  • Bacteria
  • Parasite
  • Worms
  • Cancer cells
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What types of conditions result from errors in the immune system? (4)

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  • Allergic reaction
  • Immunopathology
  • Immune deficiency
  • Autoimmunity
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What is an allergic reaction? (2)

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  • Hypersensitivity to foreign non pathogenic antigens

- Mounting immune response to enviornmental material

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What is immunopathology?

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Excessive immune response causing tissue/organ damage

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What is autoimmunity?

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Self reactivity to own tissues/cells

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What is immune deficiency caused by? (3)

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  • Passive maternal antibody transfer shortly before birth protects neonate
  • Neonate normally develops own immune system shortly after birth
  • If not: common resp problems due to loss of maternal antibodies and lack of own immunity
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What are the requirements of the immune system? (2)

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  • Function in context of physiological functions of tissues

- Function despite evolutionary pressures

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What are the two pressure on the immune system that come into conflict? (2)

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  • Protective

- Preservative

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What is the protective function of the immune system?

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The most effective means of destroying harmful pathogens

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What is the preservative function of the immune system?

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Immune mediated protection without disrupting normal physiological function

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What is the relationship between the protective and preservative functions of the immune system?

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Inverse - more protective, less preservative

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What does the immune system response depend on?

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The area of the body

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What is a common bacteria found on the skin?

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Staphylococcus aureus

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What can be caused by staphylococcus aureus breaching the skin? (2)

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  • Cellulitis

- Tissue damage

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Give 3 examples of viruses that cause infections

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  • Variola (small pox)
  • Influenza virus
  • HIV
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How does HIV operate? (2)

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  • Attacks own body’s immune system

- Binds to T cells and destroys them

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What common parasite does the immune system protect against?

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Brugia malayi

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What common condition does brugia malayi lead to?

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Elephantitus

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What is elephantitus?

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Enlargement of limbs due to tissue swelling because of lymphatic blockage

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Give an example of a prominent autoimmune disease

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Multiple sclerosis

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What causes autoimmunity?

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Failure to distinguish self from non self

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What is associated with tertiary stage syphilis?
Granulomatous skin "gumma"
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Give a prominent example of immunopathology
Syphilis
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What common system is a result of immunopathology?
Fibrosis
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Give a prominent example of allergy
Rhus dermatitis
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What is rhus dermatitis?
Contact allergy to poison ivy
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Give a prominent example of immundeficiency
Oral candida albicans
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What is oral candida albicans?
Oral thrush - yeast infection of oral cavity
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What is the relationship between inflammation and innate immunity? (2)
- The inflammatory process mobilises the determinants of the innate immune response - Turns a "random event" into an "ordered event"
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How does the immune response control the inflammatory response?
Inflammation continues until switch off circuits from immune response
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What is the 1st line of defence of the immune system?
Innate immune response
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What does the innate immune response do at best?
Eradicates infection
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What does the innate immune response do at worst?
Slows down/delays infection until adaptive immune response generated
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What are the 3 parts of the innate immune system?
- Barriers - Cellular components (cells) - Humoral components (soluble factors)
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How do the cellular components contribute to the innate immune system?
- Cell surface molecule interactions control/destroy potential threat - Receptors on cells interact with ligands in environment causing active responses (e.g engulfment)
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What do the cellular component cell surface molecule interactions in the innate immune system result in? (2)
Controlling/destroying potential threat
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What type of factors are humoral components?
Soluble
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What is immune cell development known as?
Hematopoiesis
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What is the first pluripotent progenitor cell of the immune system?
Hematopoetic stem cell
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Where are hematopoetic stem cells found?
Bone marrow
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What do hematopoetic stem cells split into?
3 sets of progenitor: - Lymphoid - Myleoid - Erythroid
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What do lymphoid progenitor cells generate?` Give 3 examples
Lymphocytes for adaptive immune response - B cell - T cell - NK cell
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What do myeloid progenitor cells generate?`
- Polymorphonuclear cells (neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil) - Mast cell - Dendritic cell
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What are the properties of a polymorphonuclear cell? (2)
- Nucleus with several lobes | - Cytoplasm with granules
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What do dendritic cells do?
Deliver antigens to the adaptive immune response
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What are mast cells?
Big inflammatory mediators
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What do mast cells contain? (3)
- Rostoglandins - Histamines - Inflammatory mediators
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What do mast cells do when activated?
- Deposit granules present to give rise to an inflammatory response - Presence keeps driving information
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What are macrophages?
Scavenger cells
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What two cells do erythroids split into?
- Megakaryocyte | - RBC
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What do megakaryocytes form?
Platelets
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What is the myeloid progenitor cell responsible for overall?
Innate immune response
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What is the lymphoid progenitor cell responsible for overall?
Adaptive immune response
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List the cells of the innate immune system (7)
- Neutrophils - Eosinophils - Basophils - Mast cells - Natural killer cells - Macrophages - Dendritic cells
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What is the progenitor of the cells of the innate immune system?
Myeloid
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What is the purpose of neutrophils?
To kill rapidly dividing bacteria
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What is the purpose of eosinophils?
Kill parasites (worms and flukes)

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