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Barrier Defense: Definition
Operates constantly to prevent establishment of infection

some fall into more than one category
Barrier Defense: What are some examples of it falling into more than one category?
Mucus and membranes
Barrier Defense: What are the three types?
Chemical, Physical, Mechanical
Barrier Defense: Physical Barriers:

What are 2 examples?
Skin cover and mucous membranes
Barrier Defense: Physical Barriers:

What does the skin cover seem like?
A maze
Barrier Defense: Physical Barriers:

What does the mucous membrane cover and what does it transport?
- epithelial cells
-microbes for later expulsion
Barrier Defense: Chemical Barriers

3 things
Lysozymes
Acidic conditions
Salt content
Barrier Defense: Chemica Barriers:

Where are lysozymes in?
tears, mucus, saliva
Barrier Defense: Chemical Barriers:

What do lysozmes do?
degrade peptidoglycan.
Barrier Defense: Chemical Barriers:

What do lysozmes work best against?
gram +
Barrier Defense: Chemical Barriers:

What do all three chemical barriers have in common?
They all prevent growth in some way
Barrier Defense: Mechanical Barriers:

What are the areas mechanical works with?
Skin and mucus
Barrier Defense: Mechanical Barriers:

What do the cillia function for in the respiratory tract?
React to foreign objects
Barrier Defense: Chemical Barriers:

Where are acidic conditions?
saliva, sweat, urine, stomach
Barrier Defense: Chemical Barriers:

Where is the salt content present in?
in sweat, prevents growth
Barrier Defense: Mechanical Barriers:

Who are the cillia paralyzed in?
Smokers
Barrier Defense: Mechanical Barriers:

What are some other examples of mechanical barriers other than cilia?
fulshing urinary tract, saliva flow, dead epithelial cells slough, blinking, watery eyes.
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators:

4 Parts
1. Complement system
2. Cytokines
3. Lactoferrin
4. Pyrogens
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System:

What kind of action indicates this?
Cascading action
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System:

What does it do to intruders?
tags them as targets
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System:

What are the 3 different mechanisms?
1. Classical
2. Alternative
3. Lectin Binding
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Classical mechanism

What does it do?
Recruits phagocytes
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Alternative mech.

What does it do?
lyses cells
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Alternative mech.

What kind of cells does it target?
gram negative
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Alternative mech.

What is a MAC?
+ causes death by itself

+ pore forming
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Lectin binding mech.

What does it do?
helps sphygocytes bind to targets
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Lectin binding mech.


Do opsinins cause death by themselves?
No, do not cause death by themselves.
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Roles

Ehance _______ in ______ immunity
phagocytosis, innate
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Roles

Enhance ____ response and ____ immunity
antibody, adaptive
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Complement System: Roles

dispose of _____
wastes
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines:

What does it affect?
the behavior of immune cells
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines:

Is it short or long term aid?
short term
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines:

What are the 5 types
1. chemokines
2. interleukins (ILs)
3. Hematopoietins
4 .Tumor Necrosis Factors (TNFs)
5. Interferons (IFNs)
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Chemokines

What do they deal with?
inflamation
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Chemokines

Wher do they go to?
The location of the infection
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interleukins

What do they deal with?
growth and differences of immature leukocytes
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interleukins

What can they cause?
fever responses
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Hematopoietins

Where are they produced?
Bone marrow
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Hematopoietins

What do they include?
Colony Stimulation factors (CSFs)
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Hematopoietins

What is their functions
directs the differentation of immature leuko and hemopo. stem cells in bone marrow into what type of leukocyte is most needed
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Tumor Necrosis Factors

What does it do?
Kills tumor cells
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Tumor Necrosis Factors

What can it induce?
fever/apotopsis (programed cell death)
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interferons

What is their nickname?
suicide bombers
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interferons

What are they produced by?
virus infected cells
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interferons

What do they secrete to?
Neighboring cells that are infected
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interferons

Once cell is infected, what does it begin to do?
Produce cytokines
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interferons

What is it a big deal to?
Cancer
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interferons

What is their overall function?
Trigger production of anti-viral compounds
Barrier Defense: Chemical Mediators: Cytokines: Interferons

What do the antiviral compounds do once they are produced?
degrade viral DNA and/or inhibit viral replication
Barrier Defense: Fever Response

Why are temperatures raised?
To exceed the growth temperatures of invading organisms
Barrier Defense: Fever Responses

What does the temperture need to exceed to be above that of the growing temp for invading organisms?
98.6 degrees F or 37 degrees C
Barrier Defense: Fever Responses

What are these caused by?
Endogenous pyrogens
Barrier Defense: Fever Responses

What do exogenous pyrogens compete with?
normal flora
Barrier Defense: Fever Responses

As the rate of the organisms growth slows, what goes up
the rate of production of the host defensive cells
Barrier Defense: Fever Responses

If the temperature increases too much, what is damaged?
Proteins
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia

What is it done by?
Host
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia

What are the 2 organisms that need iron for growth?
Microbes and Humans
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia: Lactoferrin

What is it produced by?
Hosts
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia: Lactoferrin

What does it bind to and why?
It binds to free iron so that it will be unavaliable to microbes
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia: Lactoferrin

What does it slow the growth of?
Microbes
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia: Lactoferrin

What does it allow to catch up?
The immune system
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia: Lactoferrin

What do host cells have avaliable?
Some internal stores of iron
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia: Lactoferrin
'What centers have the highest iron centers?
Hemoglobin (RBC)
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia: Lactoferrin

When is this released and what is it released by?
When infection is found, and by cytoplasm/ cytokines?
Barrier Defense: Hypoferremia: Lactoferrin

What attacks the hemoglobin>
Hemolysins
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis

What does it do?
Sees something and recognizes it as a non-cell
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis

How to attract to specific cells?
Antibodies
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis

What does it come by (processes)?
antibodies, opsonins, or PRR receptors
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis

What does a phagosome contain?
bacterial material or a virus
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis

What do phagocytes do?
recognize, ingest, and kill invatders
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis

What are some examples of phagocytes?
nerutophils

monocytes

macrophages


dendritic cells
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis

What are the first four steps of phagocytosis?
1. Chemotaxis
2. Attachment
3. Ingestion to produce phagosome
4. Fusion of phagosome w/ lysozome vac. to produce phagolysozome
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis

What are the last 3 steps of phago?
5. Breakdown of dead materials
6. Exocytosis of debri
7. Macrophages and dendric cells can become antigen-presenting cells
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosi: Opsonin independent

What does it produce when down to target?
signaling effects
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosi: Opsonin independent

What does the PRR bind to?
PAMP
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosi: Opsonin independent

Where is the PAMP?
On the outside of bacteria
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosi: Opsonin independent

What is the PAMP specifically on?
Pathogens
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosi: Opsonin independent

What is a receptor other than PRR that is used?
TLR (toll like receptors)
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosi: Opsonin independent

What do Toll like receptors do?
Produce signalling effect when binded
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosi: Opsonin independent

PAMP binding
Digestion, Debri release
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis: Phagolysozome

What does it contain?
Digestive enzymes
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis: Phagolysozome

What kind of digestive enzymes does it contain?
lysozmes, hydrolases, phosphlipid Anhydrase, RiboNUC, deoxyrib, protease
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis: Phagolysozome: Digestive enzymes

Are there oxy. dependent or independent enzymes here
oxygen dependent
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis: Phagolysozom: digestive enzymes: oxygen dependent enzymes

What do they produce?
Reactive oxygen intermediates
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis: Phagolysozom: digestive enzymes: oxygen dependent enzymes

What are some examples of ROIs
Superoxide, H202, hydroxyl radical
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis: Phagolysozom: digestive enzymes: oxygen dependent enzymes

What are they indendent of?
Lysozome formation
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis: Phagolysozom: digestive enzymes: oxygen dependent enzymes

How do they increase ATP generation
Pentose Phosphate shunt and the NADH
Barrier Defense: Phagocytosis: Barrier Defense:Phagocytosis: digestive enzymes: oxygen dependent enzymes

What are Pentose Phosphate shunt and the NADH used for?
Respiratory burst and as diagnistic to indicate infection
Barrier defense: Inflamaition responses in hosts:

What is it the response of and to?
tissues, physical damages
Barrier Defense: Inflammation in hosts

What is released and what do they attract?
Chemical factors, phagocytes and other cells to area of injury
Inflammation Response in Host:

What are the hall mark stages?
Calor
RUBOR
Dolor
Tumor
Inflammation Response in Host: Hall Mark stages

What step does calor and rubor occur in, and what do they mean?
Step 2
calor- heat
rubor- blood
Inflammation Response in Host: Hall Mark stages

What step does dolor and tumor occur in and what do they mean?
Step 3
dolor- pain
tumor- swelling
Acute Inflammatory Response

First step: Plasma leaks from ____ ____ and causes ______
damaged tissues, swelling
Acute Inflammatory Response

Second step: _________ produces heat (_____) and _______ (rubor) as blood flow to the damaged is ________
Vasodilation, calor, redness, increased
Acute Inflammatory Response

First step: what does it contain and what does this mean?
Vasodilators cause blood vessels to expand in diameter
Acute Inflammatory Response

Third step :
Pain (____) caused by ______ _______ or swelling (_______) in the tissues and by effects of released ________ chemicals on _____ ______.
Dolor, increased fluid, tumor, antimicrobial, nerve endings
Acute Inflammatory Response

4th steP:
_______ attracted to cite of ____ and initiate _____ _______.
WBC, phagocytosis, antibody production
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Step 4:

What is diapedesis
when it moves from blood vessels to the injury site
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Step 4:

What is first on the scene of damages?
Granulocytes
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Step 4:

What migrates to the inflammation site?
Monocytes and then Lymphocytes
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Step 5:

_________ factors help prevent further ______ ___ ________ and are released by _________
Clotting, spread of infection, thrombocytes
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Step 6:

_____ bacteria and _____ ____ _____ accumulate to form _____ at the damage site
dead, white blood cells, pus
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Step 6:

What happens if infection cannot be eliminated?
it may be contained in granulomas (chronic infection)
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Step 6:

What happens with neutrophils and macrophages during chronic inflamation?
They are a dense mass that try to wall off bacteria that cannot be eliminated.
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Step 6:

What types of infections produce granulomas?
Tuberculosis and syphilis
Acute Inflammatory Response

What is microbacterium equal to?
mycolic acids
Acute Inflammatory Response

Mass of ____ become infected
macrophages
Acute Inflammatory Response:

Why are macrophages piled on?
to keep microphages in check