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What are the most common cells outside the blood?

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Mast cells

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What is viral tropism?

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How only specific viruses can be taken up by specific tissues

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Where and how are self-reactive T cells removed?

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By negative selection in the thymic medullary cells

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Where is antigen presented to T cells?

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On antigen binding grooves

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Which ligand does NOD-1 recognise?

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y-glutamyl diaminopimelic acid

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How do CD4 T cells respond to IL-4?

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By differentiating into Th2 cells

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Where are nTregs produced?

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In the thymus

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Which ligand does TLR-1 dimer and TLR2/6 dimer recognise?

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Peptidoglycans, lipoproteins, mycobacteria, GP1, zymosan

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Which T cells recognise MHC class I?

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CD8

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Give an example of gram negative cocci.

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Gonorrhoea, meningococcal meningitis causing

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What do CD4 and Th2 secrete to help B-cells?

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IL-4, IL-13

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Which cells are involved in the tuberculin response of type IV hypersensitivity?

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Th1, IFNy and IL-2 attract macrophages

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How do CD4 T cells respond to IL-12?

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By differentiating into Th1 cells

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Give an example of gram positive rod.

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Spore forming e.g. antharax, tetanus

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What are acid-fast bacteria? Give an example.

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Do not stain, have waxy mycolic acids in cell wall. E.g. mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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What does the alternate system of complement recognise?

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The pathogen

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Give an example of gram positive cocci.

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Staphycoccus aureus, streptococci pneumoniae, enterococci, strep. A, B & C

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What is suppurative inflammation?

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Pus is present

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What do CD4 and Treg secrete to inhibit immune response?

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TGF-B, IL-10

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Which ligand does TLR-5 recognise?

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Flagellin

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What do the cytokines IL-12 and TNFa mediate?

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Fever, macrophage activation, CD4 T-cell differentiation

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What happens in type II hypersensitivity?

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IgG and IgM activate complement cascade, releasing C3a and C5a, recruiting inflammatory cells and allowing killer cell attack

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Which antibody will be dominant when reacting to a pathogen never seen before?

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IgM

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Which out of gram positive and gram negative bacteria survive drying better?

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Gram positive

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Which MHC is expressed on all nucleated cells?
Class I
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When is a T cell activated?
When CD4 or 8, MHC and TCR bind and CD28 binds to CD86
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What do T cell receptors consist of?
alpha beta or gamma delta chains
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What happens in type I hypersensitivity?
Mast cell degranulation due to cross linking of IgE activated by histamine, tryptases, prostaglandins, leukotrienes and cytokines
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Which cells make interferons?
Virally infected cells
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Describe inoculation
Virus directly enters blood
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What kind of selection does a thymocyte undergo for MHc affinity?
Positive selection
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Which antigens are presented on MHC class II?
Exogenous antigens
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What lineage do natural killer cells have?
Lymphoid
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How is diversity of antibody specificity achieved?
By random genetic recombination
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Is adenovirus RNA or DNA based?
DNA
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What genes are heavy chains made of?
V, J and D genes
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Which antigens are presented on MHC class I?
Endogenous antigens
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Why does antibody specificity vary?
Due to differences in VH and VL sequence
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What does absence of recombination activity in receptor formation in the adaptive immune system cause?
SCID (severe combined immune deficiency)
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What cells do CD4 and Th17 activate?
Neutrophils
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Which cells are involved in the asthma response of type IV hypersensitivity?
Th2, IL-4, IL-8,IL-13 attract eosinophils
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Is hepatitis B virus RNA or DNA based?
DNA
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Give an example of gram negative rod.
E. coli, salmonella, anaerobes, legionella, haemophilus, shigella, brucella, proteus, pseudomonas
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What does a T cell do when it is activated by a virally infected cell?
Causes the cell to die by apoptosis
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What is membranous inflammation?
Membrane produced over surface of inflamed tissue
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Where does affinity maturation of B cells occur?
In B cell follicles
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What does detection of PAMPs cause?
Migration of antigen presenting cells to secondary lymphoid organs
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Which out of gram positive and gram negative bacteria has teichoic acid in cell wall?
Gram positive
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What are the PRRs in cell membranes?
Toll like
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Which out of gram positive and gram negative bacteria produces spores?
Gram positive
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What produces the chemokine IL-8?
Macrophages and endothelial cells
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Which cytokines do natural killer cells respond to?
TNFa and IL-12
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Which ligand does TLR-9 recognise?
Unmethylated CpG DNA
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Which out of gram positive and gram negative bacteria has a cell membrane?
Gram negative
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Is herpes virus RNA or DNA based?
DNA
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Describe the hepatitis B virus
Hepadnavirus ds DNA genome, icosahedral symmetry with envelope
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Describe the influenza virus
Orthoxovirus ss- RNA genome helical symmetry with envelope
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Is picornavirus RNA or DNA based?
RNA
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What genes are light chains made of?
V and J genes
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Which cells are destroyed by the HIV virus?
CD4 T cells
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What are the type-1 interferons?
IFNa and IFNb
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What is the mechanism of fever?
Increased cytokine production, reset set point of hypothalamus. PGE2 produced by hypothalamus.
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What do the cytokines IL-1 and IL-6 mediate?
Inflammation and fever
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How do CD4 T cells respond to IL-6 and TGF-B?
By differentiating into Th17 cells
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Which interferon do natural killer cells produce?
IFNy
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Which genes encode MHC?
A, B and C
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What does the classical system of complement recognise?
Antigen:Antibody complex
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What is complement responsible for?
Creation of membrane attack complex
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What are the 6 stages of lytic viral infection?
1. Replication 2. Assembly of capsids with new nucleic acid 3. Release of capsid from cell 4. Binding of capsid to host cell 5. Penetration of host cell by membrane fusion 6. Capsids release DNA/RNA
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Describe the Varicella zoster virus
Herpse virus ds DNA genome, icosahedral symmetry with envelope
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Which immunoglobulin is found as a dimer?
IgA
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Describe the HIV virus
ss+ RNA, icosahedral symmetry with envelope
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Which immunoglobulin is used in a parasitic infection?
IgE
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Is retrovirus RNA or DNA based?
RNA
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What happens in type III hypersensitivity?
IgG activates complement cascade, releasing C3a and C5a, recruiting inflammatory cells and allowing killer cell attack in serum
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What happens in toxic shock syndrome?
Toxins are produced by S. aureus or pyrogens called superantigens which allow binding of MHC cells with T cell receptors meaning up to 20% of T cells are activated against host cells causing multi-organ failure
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What do CD4 and Th1 secrete to target intracellular pathogens?
IFNy and IL-2
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Where are collectins found?
In serum
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What does the membrane attack complex form from?
C5b, C6, C7, C8, C9
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How do CD4 T cells respond to IL-2 and TGF-B?
By differentiating into Treg cells
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When are interferons IFNa and IFNb produced?
In response to virally infected cells
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Which ligand does NOD-2 recognise?
Muramyl dipeptide
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What does C3b cause?
Production of the membrane attach complex
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What does the MB lectin system of complement recognise?
Mannose on pathogen
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Which antibody will be dominant when reacting to a pathogen encountered before?
IgG
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What kind of pathogen is a Helminth?
A parasite
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What are digestive enzymes kept inside in a phagocyte?
Lysosomes
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Which genes code for the constant region of antibody?
C genes
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Which region of antibody determines its function?
The constant region
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Which T cells recognise MHC class II?
CD4
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Which ligand does TLR-4 dimer and CD14 recognise?
LPS on gram negative bacteria
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What domains does a T cell receptor have?
aC, bC, aV, bV
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How do CD4 and Th1 activate CD8?
Via IFN-y and IL-2
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Where and when are cell adhesion molecules expressed?
On epithelium in inflammation and always on WBCs
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Which cells mediate type I diabetes?
Mainly T cells
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Which cells mediate allergy?
CD4 and Th2 cells
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What do CD4 and Th17 secrete to target extracellular bacteria and fungi?
IL-17, IL-21
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Which out of gram positive and gram negative bacteria has endotoxin in cell wall?
Gram negative
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Why do T cells not destroy self cells?
Self reactive cells are inactivated before maturation
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Which ligand does TLR-3 recognise?
dsRNA
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Which immunoglobulin is effective at activating complement?
IgM

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