week 11 lecture 1 and 2 Flashcards
IS = immune system, WBC = white blood cells (72 cards)
what is innate immunity
- first line of defense
- offers resistance to any microbe or foreign material
- includes general mechanisms - skin, mucus, and antimicrobial chemical
what is adaptive immune response?
- activated by chemicals of innate immunity
- tailored to a particular foreign agent
- has memory effectiveness increases on repeated exposure to foriegn agent
two types of adaptive immunity cells?
T cells
B cells
what are antigens?
- any substance recognized by the immune system
- immune system differentiates between self-antigen and no-self (foreign)
- enables IS to rid host of foriegn invaders (and cancer cells)
- when discrimination goes awry, it is the basis for allergic responses and autoimmune disease
what is the first line of defense?
- barriers
how does the skin act as a barrier? type?
- mechanical barrier
- associated microbiota prevent colonization of pathogens
what do mucosal membranes serve as?
- protective covering - resists and traps microbial invaders
- mucosal secretions are toxic to microorganisms
what are the functions of the complement system?
- triggers inflammation and recruits WBCs (leukocytes)
- lyising microbial cell membranes
- promoting phagocytosis of microbial invaders via opsonization (protein coating - tags microbes for destruction )
what are the two ways the complement system will kill a microbe?
- phagocytosis - cell envlopes and digests
- membrane attack complex (MAC) - destroys the target cell by inserting a series of proteins into the membrane, creates pores and cell looses cohesion/control - death
what happens in primary organs and tissues?
- stem cells differentiate into immune cells
what happens in secondary organs and tissues?
- where lymphocytes are activated by antigen interactions
(lymph nodes, tissues, and spleen)
what are B-cells?
- bone marrow (orginates here)
- enter bloodstream and migrate to lymph nodes and spleen to await introduction to the antigen to which they will make targeted antibody
- differentate into plasma cells and form antibodies
what are T-Cells?
- thymus (matures here)
- mature T-Cells and enter the bloodstream where they await activation by innate immune cells
- does cellular immune response
what are the two types of WBC?
- mast cells - triggers inflammatory reactions and responsible for allergic symptoms (early warning system)
- dendritic cells - processes foreign matter and presents to lymphocytes (typically invaded)
what are the two categories of of wbc?
- granulocytes
- Agranulocytes
what are the three types of granulocytes?
- eosinophils - worm and fungal infections, allergy, and inflammatory reactions
- basophils - functions in inflammatory events and allergies
- neutrophilis - essential blood phagocytes, active engulfurs and killers of bacteria
what are the two cargoies of agranulocytes?
- monocytes-produce in bone marrow and enter the blood, mature into macrophages and dendritic cells
- lymphocytes - immune reaction to foreign matter
what are macrophages?
- largest phagocytes that ingest and kill foreign cells
- resides in specific tissues
what is the general function of common lymphoid progenitors? two types?
- do not express antigen-specific receptors, innate response and has no memory
1. NK cells
2. inate lymphoic cells
what is the function of NK cells?
. NK cells - kill tumor cells and cells with intracellular infections
what is the function of innate lymphoic cells?
- secrete cytokines that assist both innate and adaptive cells, not antigen scpeifc, supports lymphoid tissue development
how does the microbe recognized by the phagocyte?
- opsonin-dependent recognition - protein coat
- opsonin independent recognition - microbe-associated molecular patterns
what is the defense reaction to tissue injury?
- can be caused by pathogen or wond
- can trigger complement system
- acute inflammation is the immediate response of body to injury or cell death
what are cardinal signs of the body in response to inflammation?
- reddness
- warmth
- pain
- swelling
- altered function