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59 Cards in this Set
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Polio virus VP2 mimics what self-antigen? |
Acetylcholine |
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Myelin Basic protein is mimicked by |
Measles Virus P3 |
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Insulin receptors are mimicked by |
Papilloma Virus VP2 |
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Antigen attacked in Addison's disease |
Microsomal proteins of adrenal cells |
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Antigen attacked on acute disseminated encephalomyelitis |
Basic protein of myelin |
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Thyroglobulin and microsomal antigens are attacked in what autoimmune disease? |
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis |
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Antigen attacked on Type 1 DM
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Islet Cells |
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Type 4 collagen membranes are attacked in what disease? |
Goodpastures Syndrome |
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TSH receptors are attacked in what disease? |
Grave's Disease |
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Acetylcholine receptors are attacked in what autoimmune disease? |
Myasthenia gravis |
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Smooth muscles are attacked in what autoimmune disease? |
Autoimmune chronic active hepatitis |
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Antigens attacked in Pernicious Anemia |
Gastric Parietal cell antigens, Intrinsic Factor |
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Antigens attacked in Sjogren's Syndrome |
Salivary Gland nucleolar antigen |
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Antigens attacked in Billiary Cirrhosis |
Mitochondria |
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Striated Cardiac muscle antigens are attacked in what autoimmune disease? |
Autoimmune myocarditis |
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Epidermal antigen are attacked in what disease? |
Pemphigus vulgaris |
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Bullous Pemphigoid |
Attacks Epidermal Antigen |
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Autoimmune rheumatic fever |
attacks heart and joint tissue organ |
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In Antibiotic testing how long is the diameter of the plate and how deep is it? |
4mm depth and 6mm diameter |
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Rosette uterus |
Diphylobothrium latum |
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Rosette Microconidia |
Sporothrix schenkii |
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Disease of Connective Tissue |
SLE |
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most common manifestation of SLE |
arthritis |
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Skin lesions found in SLE |
Butterfly rash or RED WOLF |
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What antibody is present in SLE?
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Anti-Nuclear Antibodies |
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True or False: ANA is a specific antibody for SLE |
False |
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Specific antibodies detected in SLE |
Anti-smith antibody and anti-double stranded DNA |
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Specific antibodies usually found in all SLE |
Anti-dsDNA |
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Cell associated with SLE |
Le cell |
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Le cell appearance |
PMN leukocyte with ingested LE body, often in rosette formation |
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Serologic Tests for SLE |
Antinuclear Antibody Visible Method and Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Detection of ANA |
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Most commonly used and well known serologic test for SLE |
Indirect Fluorescent Antibody detection of ANA |
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Nucleolar fluorescent pattern is associated with what disease? |
Scleroderma |
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Pattern of fluorescence for SLE |
Homogenous, Peripheral, or Speckled |
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Discrete patterned fluorescence are seen in what diseases? |
Calcinosis Reynauds Esophageal dysmotility Sclerodactyl Telangietasia |
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Speckle patterned fluorescence are associated with what diseases? |
SLE, RA, MCTD |
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Peripheral patterned fluorescence are associated with what diseases? |
Active stage of SLE Sjorgen's Syndrome |
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Homogenous patterned fluorescence are associated with what diseases? |
Rheumatoid arthritis SLE Sjorgens Syndrome MTCD |
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Autoimmune disease causing chronic inflammation of the joints and periarticular tissue |
Rheumatoid Arthritis |
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What is the nonspecific marker for rheumatoid arthritis? |
Rheumatoid Factor |
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What is the specific marker for RA? |
anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide
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Sensitized Alligator Erythrocyte Test for RA was discovered by |
Cohen et al |
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Rose-Waaler test for RA |
Sheep Cell Agglutination Test |
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Latex Fixation Test for RA was discovered by |
Singer and Plotz |
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Bentonite Flocculation Test was discovered by |
Bloch and Bunim |
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Carcinoembryonic antigen |
GI cancer |
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AFP |
hepatocellular cancer |
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PSA |
prostate cancer |
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Best and only specific tumor marker |
PSA |
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Breast Cancer |
CA15-3 |
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pancreas, stomach, bile duct cancers |
CA 19-9 |
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Ovarian CA |
CA 125 |
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Gastric Cancer |
Ca 72-4 |
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Defined as the initial force of attraction between Fab and single epitope |
Affinity |
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Definition of Avidity |
sum of all attractive forces between an antigen and an antibody |
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Process wherein Thymocytes are presented with MHC molecules to make them single positive t cells |
Positive selection |
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Process wherein T cells are selected through their lack of stimulation from self antigens in the medulla of the thymus |
Negative selection |
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2 mechanisms of immune tolerance |
Clonal anergy and clonal deletion |
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IgM attacking IgG disease |
Rheumatoid arthritis |