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what are physical barriers of the innate immune system?

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skin

mucous memb

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what is the inflammatory response of the tissues?

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histamines

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what are anti-microbial proteins?

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complement

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what are the cells of the immune system?

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Neutrophils
Macrophages
Eosinophils
NK cells

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what does the immune response rely on?

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on the immunocompetent B cells and T cells

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when do B cells develop?

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continuously develop within the bone marrow

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where do T cells develop from?

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from pre- t cells that migrate into the thymus from the bone marrow

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when do T cells arise?

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before puberty but maturation tends to continue throughout life

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what do mature T and B cells develop?

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develop distinctive membrane bound proteins these proteins include antigen receptors, CD4, CD8 proteins

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what do CD4 and CD8 proteins give rise to?

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CD4+ and CD8 T cells

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what are the 2 types of immune response?

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cell mediated immunity and antibody mediated immunity

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what does cell mediated immunity involve?

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involves CD8+ T cells proliferating into cytotoxic T cells

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what is cell mediated immunity associated with?

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with targeting intracellular pathogens (fungi parasites and viruses), some cancer cells and foreign tissues

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what does antibody mediated immunity involve?

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the transformation of B cells into plasma cells

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what do plasma cells synthesis and secrete?

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immunoglobulins, or antibodies, and these bind to and inactivate specific antigens

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what is antibody mediated immunity associated with?

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with targeting antigens in the body fluids and pathogens that replicate in the body fluids

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what are cell mediated and antibody mediated responses are aided by?

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by CD4+ T cell derived helper cells

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what are antigens?

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Non-self molecular configuration

may be part of a single foreign protein or a molecule that is part of a large and complex structure such as a bacterium

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what do antigens do?

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activate the adaptive response eg antibody production

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what is immunogenicity?

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an ability to induce a response mediated by the production of specific T cells or specific antibodies

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what is reactivity?

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the ability to react with antibodies or specific T cells

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what is an antigen?

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a foreign particle that has reactivity or reactivity and immunogenicity

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what are complete antigens?

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foreign particles that have immunogenicity and reactivity

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what happens with smaller substances that have reactivity but lack immunogenicity?

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these can only stimulate an immune response if they combine with a larger carrier molecule

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what are epitopes?
part of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
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what do T cells respond to?
to protein antigens
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what do B cells respond to?
to proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids
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how are antigens recognised?
only a small component of an antigen initiates an immune response, the epitopes
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what happens when antigens come into contact with the immune system?
they are carried via the blood to the spleen, or via the lymph to the lymph nodes, where they are trapped by the reticular fibres of the reticular cells
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what happens when antigens come into contact with the mucous membrane?
antigens are trapped by mucosa-associated lymphatic tissue (MALT)
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what is needed for T cell development?
mature TCR
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why are molecules expressed on the surface of cells important?
important in immune response
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what is the Major histocompatibility complex MHC?
mhc
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what does the MHC do?
guide recognition of antigen by T cells bind epitopes of antigens and present them to T cells highly polymorphic in the population
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what is histocompatibility?
Self-cells express self-antigens in the plasma memb, the major histocompatibility complexes (MHC) antigens.
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what are MHCs expressed by?
by every cell of in the body except the RBC
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how does the MHC function?
by helping T cells recognise foreign antigens
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what are the 2 types of MHC?
class I and class II
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where are MHC I built into?
the plasma membrane of all the bodies cells
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where are MHC II built into?
found only on the membranes of antigen presenting cells such as thymic cells and active T cells
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what has lead to histocompatibilty and tissue typing?
that MHCs occur and that they play a part in the rejection of donor tissue
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what is antigen processing achieved by?
by T and B cells recognising the antigen
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what do B cells recognise?
antigens in the body fluids
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what do T cells recognise?
antigens presented to them in combination with MHC
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where do MHC proteins arise from?
fragments of self proteins
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what do the fragments associate with?
with a peptide binding groove of a newly synthesised MHC molecule
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what does the peptide binding groove do?
stabilises the MHC molecule and enable it to be incorporated into the cell memb as a functional self antigen
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what happens if the protein fragment arises from a non-self source?
the newly synthesised MHC protein will then express a non self surface antigen
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what 2 ways does the processing of foreign antigens occur?
exogenous antigen processing | endogenous antigen processing
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what is exogenous antigen processing?
relates to antigens found in the body fluids
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what are exogenous antigens initially dealt with?
by antigen presenting cells (APCs)
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what do APCs include?
macrophages, B cells and dendritic cells
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what do APCs ingest?
the antigen the antigen is then digested into peptide fragments these are then transferred to small vesicle like structures
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what do APCs synthesis?
MHC-II molecules that are packaged into vesicles so that the MHC –II molecules line the inner memb of the vesicles
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what happens to the 2 vesicle types?
they fuse allowing the antigen fragments to combine with the MHC-II molecules
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what are the large vesicles lined with?
with the antigen fragment/MHC-II complexes
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what happens to the large vesicles?
they undergo exocytosis, which results in the antigen fragment/MHC-II complex being presented as an external component of the cell memb
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what happens to the APC after processing?
APC then migrates to the lymphatic tissue where the antigen can be presented to the T cells
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what are endogenous antigens?
antigens produced within a cell, and fragments of these become associated with MHC-I molecules
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where does the antigen MHC-I complex moves to?
to the cell memb where it is displayed as a surface antigen
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when do T cells recognise antigens?
when they are inside/associated with other cells of the body
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what don't T cells recognise?
free antigens
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what do T cells recognise?
epitopes of antigens presented to them by MHC molecules on the surface of other cells in the body
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what is the T cell response directed towards?
the “infected” or foreign cell
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what are the 2 stages involved in the T cell activation process?
initial binding of a T cell with a specific antigen | co-stimulation
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what are co-stimulants?
some cytokines, i.e. interleukin –2, and pairs of plasma cell memb molecules, that occur one on the T cell and one on the memb of the antigen presenting cells memb
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how do co-stimulants function?
by allowing the two cells to temporarily attach to one another
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do co-stimulants active T cells in the same way?
no, in a different way
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what does lack of co-stimulation result in
T cell anergy | absence of the normal immune response to a particular antigen
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what happens if fully activated by antigen presenting cells and the co-stimulant?
T cell proliferate and differentiate
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where does the process of T cell proliferation and differentiation occur?
in the secondary lymphatic organs and tissues such as the tonsils
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what are the 3 types of T cell?
helper T cells, cytotoxic T cells and memory cells
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what are helper T cells?
T cells that express the CD4 memb protein normally develop into helper T (TH) cells
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what so helper T cells recognise?
antigen/MCH-II complexes, and if costimulated by complimentary molecules on the antigen presenting cell, start secreting a range of cytokines
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what do T helper cells secrete?
cytokines ie IL-2
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how does IL-2 function?
by triggering T cell proliferation, functioning as a costimulator for TH cells and cytotoxic T cells, and it can enhance the proliferation of B cells and natural killer cells
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what do cytokines do?
Enhance immunocompetent cell function
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what are cytokines?
small hormones that can stimulate or inhibit cellular differentiation, proliferation and growth
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what is cytokine therapy?
because of their ability to regulate immune processes they are now being used to treat medical conditions
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where are cytotoxic T cells derived from?
from CD8+ cells
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what do TC cells recognise?
antigen/MHC–I complexes on virus infected cells, on the surface of some cancerous cells and on the surface of transplanted cells/tissues
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when can TC cells become cytolytic?
if this antigen recognition is associated with costimulation with cytokines such as IL-2
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when are cytokines secreted?
as a result of the T-helper cell secretion
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when can activation of Tc cells occur?
occur if these T helper cells have also encountered the same antigen coupled to MHC-II
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what happens when Tc cells become activated?
they rapidly proliferate and then destroy the target cells
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how do Tc cells destroy target cells?
by secreting porforin | or lymphotoxin.
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what else can T cells secrete?
gamma interferon, and this activates phagocytes at the site of infection
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how are memory T cells formed?
from T cells that remain after an infection
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what happens once memory T cells are formed?
these cells are maintained and allow a very rapid response to reinvasion by the initial antigenic materials
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what do memory T cells ensure?
that re-infection by a previously encountered antigenic material is dealt with extremely quickly, before any signs or symptoms can develop
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what happens to progenitor T cells from sites of haematopoiesis?
they begin to migrate to the thymus
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what does T cell maturation involve?
rearrangements of the germ-line TCR genes and expression of various memb markers
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what are thymocytes?
Developing T cells in the thymus
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what do Thymocytes proliferate and differentiate into?
into distinct sub-populations of mature T cells

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