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ENDOCYTOSIS?
PHAGOCYTOSIS?
PINOCYTOSIS?
ENDOCYTOSIS- occurs when pits invaginate, internalizing ligand receptor complexes in coated vesicles.
PHAGOCYTOSIS- A type of endocytosis in which large particles such as bacteria are ingested through vacuoles.
PINOCYTOSIS- type of endocytosis in which fluid and solute molecules are ingested through form. of small vesicles "cell drinking"
What are the growth factors?
cytokines-peptides that transmit signals within and between cells.
What is the danger of free radicals?
They can cause membrane damage , difficult to control and initiate chain reactions. Can cause lipid peroxidation, alterations of protein, alterations of DNA.
Causes of EDEMA?
Accumulation of fluid in interstitial spaces, caused by arterial dilation, venous or lymphatic obstruction, loss of plasma proteins, increased capillary permeability, increased vascular volume.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENTIATION LINE OF THE NEUTROPHIL?
1- HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL
2-COMMON MYELOID PROGENITOR
3-GRANULOCYTE/MONOCYTE PROGENITOR
4-GRANULOCYTE PROGENITOR
5-MYELOBLAST
6-NEUTROPHIL
What are ANTIGENS AND ANTIBODIES?
ANTIBODY-
immunoglobulin, a serum glycoprotein produced by plasma cells in response to a challenge by an immunogen.
FIVE classes of immunoglobulins.
ANTIGENS-
A molecule that can react with antibodies, or antigen receptors on B AND T cells.
WHAT ARE THE TWO TYPES OF IMMUNITY?
-INNATE RESISTANCE OR IMMUNITY BY NATURAL BARRIERS & INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE
AND
ADAPTIVE (ACQUIRED) IMMUNE SYSTEM.
NAME SOME PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL BARRIERS?
first line of defense!!
skin and mucous membranes
cathelicidins and defensins are antimicrobials prod. by epithelial cells.
normal bacterial flora.
CHARCTERISTICS OF THE SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE(INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE) ?
rapidly initiated, non-specific.
vascular vasodilation, increased capillary permeability, and white blood cell adherence to vessel walls.
- The classical pathway, the alternative pathway, and the lectin pathway.
Results in opsonization, activation of anaphylatoxins, cell lysis, leukocyte chemotaxis.
HOW DOES THE CLOTTING CASCADE HELP?
Prevents spread of microrganisms, contains microorganisms and foreign bodies at the site of inflammation, provides framework for repair and healing.
WHAT IS THE KININ SYSTEM?
The kinin system proteins promote vasodilation and increased capillary permeability, and induce PAIN.
H1 HISTAMINE RECEPTORS?
H2 HISTAMINE RECEPTORS?
H1-PROMOTE INFLAMMATION
H2-INHIBIT INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE
STAGES OF PHAGOCYTOSIS?
-RECOGNITION AND ADHERENCE
-ENGULFMENT
-LYSOSOMAL FUSION
-DESTRUCTION!!
WHAT ARE NEUTROPHILS?
Predominant phagocyte of early inflammation. Attracted to inflamm. site by chemotactic factors.
MONOCYTES AND MACROPHAGES?
Arrive later. Remain longer to clean up debris and promote healing.
EOSINOPHILS?
help control mast cell vascular mediators and defend against
PARASITES
BASOPHILS?
Granulocytes very similar to mast cells.
NATURAL KILLER CELLS?
Recognize and eliminate VIRUSES, cancer cells, and other abnormal cells.
PLATELETS?
Interact with coagulation cascade to stop bleeding, release mediators to control inflammation
CYTOKINES?
Soluble factors that regulate the inflammatory response and include interleukins, interferons, and tumor necrosis factor .
LOCAL MANIFESTATIONS OF INFLAMMATION?
Vasodilation, increased cap. permeability, redness, heat, swelling, and pain. Functions to dilute toxins and carry debris away from site.
SYSTEMIC MANIFESTATIONS OF INFLAMMATION?
Fever, leukocytosis, increased levels of circulating plasma proteins. (fibrinogen, C-reactive protein)
CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION?
last two weeks or longer.
dense infiltration of lymphocytes and macrophages. To isolate infection and protect ag. tissue damage may form granuloma.
DESCRIBE ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY?
Slower, specific, has MEMORY,
mediated by B AND T LYMPHOCYTES.
B-humoral immunity, mediated by circulating antibodies.
T-cell-mediated immunity, kills targets directly.
B AND T lymphocytes bind antigen through cognate receptor complexes (BCR, TCR)
CD4 is a surface marker on what cell?
HELPER T CELLS
CD8 ?
CYTOTOXIC T CELLS
CD21 AND CD40?
B CELLS
WHAT IS CLONAL SELECTION?
Process by which antigen selects lymphocytes with complementary TCRs and BCRs and induces an immune response with the production of specific antibody or cytotoxic T cells.
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF MHC?
Major histocompatability complex.
Antigen presentation is the primary role of molecules of the MHC.
MHC molecules are gylcoproteins found on all cells except rbc's. divided into class 1 and class 2.
DESCRIBE MHC CLASS1?
PRESENTS:" ENDOGENOUS"
antigens, derived from intracellular proteins.
REACTS WITH: CD8 on Tc cells
DESCRIBE MHC CLASS 2?
PRESENTS: "EXOGENOUS ANTIGENS", derived from extracellular organisms.
REACTS WITH: CD4 on Th cells
IgG?
IgE?
IgG -Most prevalent
IgG- Most rare
IgD?
IgM?
First and largest
IgA?
found in secretions, prevent infection on epithelial surfaces
What are superantigens?
Molecules produced by infectious agents, that can bind to Th cells TCR outside the normal antigen binding site. Results in excessive production of proinflammatory cytokines that can cause shock.
EX: Toxic shock syndrome and food poisoning.
What are hypersensitivity reactions?
Allergy, autoimmunity, and alloimmunity.
Alloimmunity vs Autoimmunity?
ALLOIMMUNIY:Inappropriate immune response directed at beneifical foreign tissue (transfusion or transplants)
AUTOIMMUNITY: inapp. response directed at the host's own tissues.
TYPE 1 REACTIONS?
IgE mediated.
Causes mast cell degradation and release of histamine.
Histamine enhances the chemotaxis of eosinophils into sites of type 1 allergic reactions.
TYPE 2 REACTIONS?
Tissue specific reactions, caused by 5 mechanisms:
complement-mediated lysis
opsonization and phagocytosis,
neutrophil mediated tissue damage, antibody dependent cell mediated cytotoxicity, and modulation of cellular function.
TYPE 3 REACTIONS?
Immune-complex mediated reaction.Immune complexes are deposited in target tissues, where they activate the complement cascade, generating chemotactic fragments that attract NEUTROPHILS, that release lysosomal enzymes.
TYPE 4 REACTIONS?
Cell mediated reactions.
Caused by cytotoxic T lymphocytes or lymphokine producing T1 Cells.
poison ivy
Describe SLE?
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Chronic, multisystem, inflamm. disease and most serious of autoimmune disorders.
Present with: arthralgias, arthritis, rash. renal disease, anemia. No cure, treat symptoms.
More common in black women.
TYPES OF BACTERIA?
"TRUE" Cocci, rod shaped, vibrios, spirilla. No nucleus, no mitochondria, no membrane bound organelles.
FILAMENTOUS: mycobacteria (TB)
SPROCHETES: flexible, anaerobic, (syphillis)
MYCOPLASMA: lack cell wall, small. (pneumonia)
RICKSETTIA: parasites spread by vectors (lyme disease)
CHLAMYDIA: parasites.
GRAM NEGATIVE AND EXAMPLES?
Do NOT retain crystal violet dye in membrane.
RESP EX: hemophilus influenzae,klebsiella, bordetella, pseudomonas,
GI: e. coli
IMPORTANT: GRAM NEG. HAVE A LIPID POLYSACCHARIDE COAT KNOWN AS ENDOTOXIN.
HAVE A THIN PEPTIDOGLYCAN LAYER.
GRAM POSITIVE?
DO retain the violet dye.
staph and strep most common. HAVE A THICK PEPTIDOGLYCAN LAYER.
MRSA, Strep Pyogenes, C. diff.
GRAM + are facultative anaerobic, and everywhere!
PROCESS OF INFECTION?
COLONIZATION, INVASION, MULTIPICATION, AND SPREAD.
WHAT ARE THE FOUR STAGES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE?
1-Incubation period
2-Prodromal State
3-Invasion period
4-Convalescence period
ENDOTOXINS?
Contained in cell wall of GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA.
The lipidpolysaccharide layer is responsible for toxic effects. Called "pyrogenic" because they prompt inflamm. response and produce fever.
WHAT ARE EXOTOXINS?
Proteins released during bacterial growth.
They can damage cell membranes, inhibit protein synthesis, activate second messengers. ex:N. MENINGITIDIS
Vaccines are available for many exotoxins: Tetanus, Diptheria, Pertussis.
TRUE OR FALSE
The virus life cycle includes the following: Attachment, Penetration, Uncoating, Replication, Assembly, and Release.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE?
A retrovirus uses REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE to convert RNA into double stranded DNA.
TRUE
DESCRIBE MALARIA?
Most common parasite is Plasmodium Falciparum.
A person is bit by an anopheles mosquito. The parasite enters the bloodstream, survives in the liver, and invades parenchymal cells. After several rounds of division, the liver cell ruptures and the parasites enter the blood, infecting RBC'S. Symptoms can be severe chills, fever, vomiting, sweating, pulmonary edema and severe anemia.
TRUE OR FALSE?
The major lab finding in patients
with HIV is decreased CD8 cells?
FALSE!!!
It's a decrease in CD4 Th cells.
NATURAL KILLER CELLS ASSOCIATE WITH?
MHC 1
WHICH IMMUNOGLOBULIN IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR ANAPHYLAXIS?
IgE?
CYTOTOXIC CELLS THAT ATTACH TO VIRALLY INFECTED CELLS OR TUMORS TO MEDIATE THE DESTRUCTION OF THESE INJURIOUS CELLS IS AN EXAMPLE OF???
CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY
Which of the following is a low molecular weight protein released by the host cell that helps prevents viruses from infecting healthy cells?
INTERFERON
THE ABILITY OF AN AGENT TO PRODUCE DISEASE IS TERMED?
PATHOGENICITY
PASSING MATERNAL ANTIBODIES TO A FETUS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHICH TYPE OF IMMUNITY?
PASSIVE ACQUIRED IMMUNITY
WHAT IS THE ACTION OF INTERLEUKIN?
ATTRACTS WHITE BLOOD CELLS TO THE SITE OF INJURY AND BACTERIAL INVASION.
PURPOSE OF NK CELLS?
Recognize surface changes on body cells infected with a virus.
It then binds to, and kills the infected cell.
WHAT CAUSES ERYTHROBLASTOSIS FATALIS?
RH NEGATIVE MOM HAS AN RH POSITIVE FIRST CHILD AND DEVELOPS ANTIBODIES. WHEN PREGNANT WITH SECOND CHILD, THE RBC'S ARE ATTACKED BY MOM'S ANTOBODIES. GIVE RHOGAM TO PREVENT THIS
DESCRIBE A TYPE 1 HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION?
An immediate reaction that occurs in response to an interaction between an antigen and an IgE antibody.
MAST CELLS AND BASOPHILS CONTAIN WHAT VASODILATORY SUBSTANCE?
HISTAMINE
THE MHC is a group of genes on a single chromosome that does what?
Permits an immune response to distinguish SELF from what is FOREIGN.
A vaccination is a form of what kind of immunity?
Active Acquired Immunity.
What is opsonization?
When an antibody coats an antigen to facilitate its recognition by the immune system.
B-CELLS are responsible for which type of immunity?
HUMORAL IMMUNITY
WHICH LEUKOCYTE WOULD DEFEND AGAINST A PARASITE?
EOSINOPHIL
WHAT IS THE ORDER OF CELLS? (HINT MONKEYS)
NEVER
LET
MONKEYS
EAT
BANANAS
MACROPHAGES AND NEUTROPHILS USE WHAT TO
PHAGOCYTOSE BACTERIA?
NON HOST EPITOPES
(LPS)
(MANOS)
STAGES OF INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE?
INITIATE-acute inflamm., vessel leakage, swelling, redness/warmth, stop neutrophils
RECRUITMENT- induce adherence, chemokines, leukocytes
REMOVE DEBRIS-activate leukocytes, if linger long enough, activate lymphocytes, and make antibodies
PROMOTE REPAIR-macrophages, fibroblasts, collagen.
WHAT DOES HISTAMINE DO?
Causes increased vascular permeability, allows more immune cells into affected tissue.
WHAT IS FAB?
ANTIGEN- BINDING FRAGMENT.
SPECIFICALLY RECOGNIZES ONE TYPE OF ANTIGEN!!
A BEE STING IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHICH IMMUNE RESPONSE?
TYPE 1- IMMEDIATE
HEMOLYTIC DISEASE OF NEWBORN IS WHICH TYPE OF IMMUNE RESPONSE?
TYPE 2-CYTOTOXIC
POISON IVY WILL CAUSE WHICH IMMUNE RESPONSE?
TYPE 4
EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXTRINSIC VS
INTRINSIC PATHWAY...
*Both are part of coagulation cascade
EXTRINSIC PATHWAY=
Activated by exposure of tissue factor (TF) during tissue damage.
INTRINSIC= Activation of Hageman Factor VII to XIIa.
THEY BOTH CONVERGE AT FACTOR X. FROM THAT POINT ON, A COMMON PATHWAY BEGINS A FORMATION OF A CLOT.
WHAT ARE OPSONINS?
Molecules that "TAG" microorganisms for destruction by the neutrophils and macrophages.
DESCRIBE B-CELL ACTIVATION (HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE)
NAIEVE (YET TO BE ACTIVATED)
BUT IMMUNOCOMPETENT, UPON POS. RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN EPITOPE, B CELLS WILL ENDOCYTOSE FOREIGN PATHOGEN, WILL BECOME ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL,WITH MHC2, AND PRESENT IN ON OUTSIDE OF MEMBRANE,
WAIT FOR HELPER T, WILL CONFIRM IT, ACTIVATE IT AND TURN ON MORE B CELLS TO CREATE ANTIBODIES AND MORE MEMORY B CELLS. THE PLASMA CELLS HAVE ANTIBODIES.
TRUE OR FALSE?

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT HAVE MHC 2 COMPLEXES AND CAN ENDOCYTOSE.
TRUE
HELPER T CELLS?
AMPLIFY AND ACTIVATE HUMORAL RESPONSE
LOOKING FOR *MHC 2*
CD4 POSITIVE
CYTOTOXIC T CELLS?
ATTACK AND INFILTRATE CELLS COMPROMISED BY FOREIGN PATHOGEN.
*MHC 1*
CD8 POSITIVE
TRUE OR FALSE?
ALL NUCLEATED CELLS HAVE
MHC1 TO REPRESENT "SELF"
AND BIND TO Tc (CD8)
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
IN GENERAL,
B CELLS NEED Th to ACTIVATE
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
ALL ANTIBODIES START AS IgG?
FALSE!!!!!!!!
ALL START AS IgM!!
HYPERSENSITIVITIES
TYPE 1
TYPE 2
TYPE 3
TYPE 4
1-ALLERGIES (MAST CELLS)
2-AUTOIMMUNE (TISSUE SPECIFIC)
3-SOLUBLE Ag, IMMUNOGLOBULIN (DEPOSITION IN CERTAIN AREAS OF BODY)
4- T CELL MEDIATED
(TRANSPLANT)
(POISON IVY)
SCID?
BOTH B AND T CELLS PATHWAYS AFFECTED (USUALLY IN STEM CELLS)
DIGEORGE'S SYNDROME?
THYMUS MALFUNCTION, CAN'T MAKE T CELLS
HIV?
recognize CD4 cells, enter them by fusing with plasma membrane, inject genetic material.
hijack the host.
TREAT:
RT inhibitors
block entry
block integration
TRUE OR FALSE?
RNA VIRUS MUST CONTAIN REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE
TRUE
WHICH CELLS ARE CAPABLE OF FORMING CLONES?
T AND B CELLS
TRUE OR FALSE
ICF IS 2/3 OF FLUID
AND ECF IS 1/3 OF FLUID
TRUE
FOUR WAYS EDEMA OCCURS?
-NOT ENOUGH ONCOTIC PRESSURE TO PULL FLUID BACK INTO CAPILLARY.
-LACK OF PLASMA PROTEINS (LIVER FAILURE, KIDNEY DAMAGE)
-INCREASED TISSUE ONCOTIC PRESSURE. (INFLAMMATION)
-LYMPH OBSTRUCTION