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Where do most pathogens enter the body?

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Through the mucosal tract

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What are the three tracts that are made up of mucosal tissue?

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Respiratory, gastrointestinal and urogenital

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What kinds of cells is the mucosal tract lined with?

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Collated epithelial cells that secrete mucous

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What two antibodies are a part of the mucosal secretions?

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IgA and IgM

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What do we provide commensal microorganisms with?

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Food and warmth

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What do commensal bacteria provide us?

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Competition with pathogens
Digestion aid
Vitamins
Immune system development 
PTreg balance
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What part of the gut should commensal bacteria live?

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The lumen

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Where is it dangerous for commensal bacteria to end up?

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The lamina propria

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What does MALT stand for?

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Mucosal associated lymphoid tissues

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What are M cells?

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Microfold cells, specialized epithelial cells that actively sample antigens from the lumen

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What do M cells do with the antigens they sample from the lumen?

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They don’t degrade them but pass them to APC’s, B cells and T cells

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What is the phenomenon of gut homing?

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When effector cells migrate back to the mucosal tissue where they were initially activated

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How long do antibodies usually persist after an infection and protect without the need of a secondary response?

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A few months

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When is a secondary response with the help of memory cells required?

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After antibodies from the primary response breakdown

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When are B and T memory cells created?

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During the primary response

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How can you tell the difference between naive B cells and memory B cells?

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Naive B cells express IgM while memory B cells have undergone isotype switching

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What kind if immune response is associated with the expression of IgM?

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The primary response

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What do naive B cells undergo during proliferation?

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Hypermutation

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How do memory B cells achieve affinity maturation?

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By selecting for the memory B cells with the highest antigen affinity

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Which are easier to activate; memory B and T cells or naive B and T cells?

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Memory B and T cells

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Memory B cells require helper T cells for what?

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Activation

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How can you tell effector and memory T cells from naive T cells?

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Based on the expression of their surface and intracellular proteins

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What two molecules are expressed by effector and memory T cells, but not by naive T cells?

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Granzymes and Fas ligands for killing target cells

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Where do memory T cells circulate?

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Through the peripheral tissues, not limited to the lymphoid organs

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How are memory T cells activated?
Directly by APCs
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What are the two sub populations of memory T cells?
Effector memory T cells and central memory T cells
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What kind of memory cell homes directly to peripheral inflamed tissues and quickly differentiate with APCs?
Effector memory cells
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What kind of memory cells home to secondary lymphoid tissues where they can activated B cells?
Central memory T cells
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What produces exotoxins?
Extracellular bacteria
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What is an example of a disease caused by exotoxins?
Tetanus, cholera, anthrax, whooping cough or scarlet fever
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What is an example of an immune evasion tactic used by pathogens?
``` Antigenic variation Latency Inhibition of humoral immunity Inhibition of inflammation Blocking of antigen presentation and processing pathways General immune suppression ```
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How does antigenic variation work?
The pathogen makes genetic changes to render itself unrecognizable by antibodies and memory cells
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Which is more serious, antigenic drift or antigenic drift?
Antigenic shift which creates viral subtypes that can cause pandemics
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What does HIV stand for?
Human immunodeficiency virus
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How does latency help a virus?
It can persist in the same host in a dormant form
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What two viruses use latency in the ganglia of sensory neurons?
Herpes and chicken pox/shingles
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What can reactivate latent viruses?
Stress and immunosuppression
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What is unique about HIV’s latency technique?
It forms a pro virus that integrates into the chromosome of an infected cell
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What is an example of a viral immune evasion technique?
Inhibition of humoral immunity Inhibition of inflammation Blocking antigen processing and presentation Immunosupression of host
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When did Edward Jenner introduce the vaccine for smallpox using cowpox?
1780’s
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What are some of the goals around vaccine development?
B and T memory cells Safety High efficacy
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What is the phenomenon of herd immunity?
The stability of a population established by a pool of relevant memory cells that reduces transmission
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What are the three main categories of vaccine?
Attenuated live Whole organism killed/inactivated Sub-unit
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What are some characteristics of a whole organism attenuated live vaccine?
Made with weakened, avirulent pathogen Full antigenic representation Endogenous with CTL memory Risks to those with weakened immune systems
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What are some characteristics of whole organism inactivated vaccines
No longer infectious Safer than live Exogenous only, no CTL memory Th and B cell memory
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What are characteristics of a sub-unit vaccine?
Made from purified Ag, not whole pathogen Exogenous only; no CTL memory Adjuvants required; mimics PAMPs to activate PRRs and APCs
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What are adjuvants?
Nonspecific immunostimulatory agents
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What are two novel vaccine strategies brought about by recombinant DNA techniques?
Recombinant-live vaccines | DNA vaccines
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What is a recombinant-live vaccine?
It relies on the Ag from unrelated pathogen and a vaccine “delivery vector” to create endogenous presentation of antigens to create CTL memory
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What is a DNA vaccine?
An injection of DNA encoding for antigen which creates immune response and then memory cells
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What is the greatest challenge with vaccinations at this time?
Public distrust
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What is an immunodeficiency?
A status of impairment within the immune system that decreases the ability to respond to infections or a heightened reaction to infection, both of which cause damage.
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What are the two types of immunodeficiency?
Primary and secondary
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What is a primary immunodeficiency?
A genetic defect that results in higher rate of infection or autoimmunity
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What is a secondary immunodeficiency?
One that has developed due to environmental factors such as immunosuppressive drugs, chemo, or HIV/AIDS
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When did the CDC first start reporting AIDS infections?
1980’s
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What is the cause of death with an AIDS infection?
Opportunistic microorganisms
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Which lymphocyte is depleted as a result of HIV/AIDS?
CD4 T cells
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What are the two paths of HIV/AIDS infection?
Sexual contact and blood
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What kind of virus is HIV?
Retrovirus
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What is the major surface Ag of HIV?
Gp120
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What is a provirus?
The dormant form taken by HIV while its in its latent stage. Once the infected T cell is activated, the virus will start reproducing.
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What is seroconversion?
The key clinical diagnostic indicator of exposure due to HIV specific antibodies in the serum
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What are three ways that AIDS evades immune responses?
Provirus dormancy Error prone reverse transcriptase CD4 Th cell depletion
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How does the provirus state help AIDS evade the immune system?
Pro viruses are not detectable by antibodies and without replication they are not recognized by CTL
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How does error prone reverse transcriptase help AIDS avoid immune detection?
By creating thousands of sub-types within a single person that make memory cell identification and vaccine development nearly impossible
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What does HAART stand for?
Highly active antiretroviral therapy
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What is HAART?
A combination therapy that target HIV replication enzymes
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What are the draw backs of HAART?
Toxicities Not a cure Expensive
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How was one person cured of AIDS?
Through a bone marrow transplant from an donor with a defective CCR5 co-receptor gene

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