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Type 2 hypersensitivity
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Antibody-mediated (usually IgG1/IgG3, NOT IgE)
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Frustrated Phagocytosis and tissue damage
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When an object is too large to be phagocytosed, the macrophage begins unloading its weapons on it, causing damage to the tissue around it
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autoantigen
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self antigen
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autoantibody
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self reactive
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Phagocytes are recruited by
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C5a, c3a
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phagocytes are activated by
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by antibody binding to FcyR1, or C3b to CR1
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myasthenia gravis
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autoantibody to acetylcholine receptors on muscle cells. Leads to PARALYSIS
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Transfusion Reaction
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Patient's antibody reacts with antigens on transfused red blood cells
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Type 2 hypersensitivity (2)
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antigen is integral part of effected cells/tissue
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Type 3 hypersensitivity
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immune-complex-mediated: complexes of antigen/antibody/often + complement
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When do immune complexers form?
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during recovery from an infection
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If not efficiently removed from circulation, what happens to immune complexes?
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become trapped in the kidney, blood vessels, skin
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How does Type 3 lead to tissue injury?
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phagocytes are recruited/activated to take care of them.
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Your pateitn has tissume damage caused by an IgG autoantibody to desmosomes in the skin, what kind of response is this?
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Type 2
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Poststreptococcal nephritis
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kidney damage caused by phagocytes reaction to immune complexes (strep antigens/anti-strep antibodies/complement)
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Autoimmune disease: Systemic Lupus erythematosus (SLE)
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damage to kidneys (other organs too) caused by phagocytes' reaction to immune complexes (DNA/anti-DNA antibodies/complement)
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Primary antibody response
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few naïve cells are present that can bind/be activated by the antigen (response generates memory cells)
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Secondary Antibody response
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from start, memory cells are present that can bind/be activated by the antigen. Response is bigger, quicker, usually not IgM, Higher average affinity for antigen
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Why higher affinity for antigen?
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____ affinity antibody is secreted early in an initial response
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low
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Where are Follicular dendritic cells found?
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only in the germinal centers of lymphoid tissue
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Where are FDCs born?
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we don’t know
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Do FDCs express PRRs?
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No
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Do FDCs internalize antigens or express MHC-2 or produce IL-12?
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No
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FDCs grab'hold immune complexes using ________
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Fc and complement receptors (FcyR1, CR1, CR2)
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Late in any response, FDCs are the last cells that________
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still have antigen bound to them
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B cells survival in germinal center and FDCs
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B cells in germinal center must outcompete each other to bind antigen on FDCs in order to survive
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To gain competitive advantage, germinal center B cells undergo ________
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somatic hypermutation
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Somatic hypermutation
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AID (Activation Induced Deaminase) helps introduce point mutations in V regions of heavy/light chains of BCR
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B cell affiliation with FDCs in somatic hypermutation
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B cells with mutation that improve affinity for antigen grab antigens from FDCs, process/present MHC2:peptide complexes to TH cells in germinal center, and fifferentiate into either memory cells or plasma cells, that will secrete high affinity antibody
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Memory cells, somatic hypermutation, and secondary responses
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memory cells quickly reactivate and produce high affinity antibody (these reactivated cells undergo ANOTHER ROUND of somatic recombination so that antibody affinity in tertiary response is even higher)
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Follicular B cells
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responsible for T-dependent (high affinity, isotype switched) antibody responses, populate lymphoid follicles
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Marginal Zone B cells
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Responsible for T-independent antibody responses (low affinity IgM antibodies to blood-borne, non-protein antigens), populate marginal zones in WHITE PULP OF SPLEEN
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Blood borne antigens are trapped by macrophages in the _______ of the spleen
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white pulp
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Splenic arterioles are surrounded by _______
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PeriArterial Lymphoid Sheaths of T cells (PALS)
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B cell follicles lie near _____
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PALS
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Marginal zone is "Structure" unique to ______
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spleen
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Marginal zone B cells produce ________
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T-independent antibodies
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T-independent antigens
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non-protein antigens with repeating structures (multiple identical antigenic epitopes on each molecule)
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examples of T-independent antigens
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polysaccharides, lipids, DNA
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T-independent ntigen binding BCRs on a splenic marginal zone B cell
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When T-inde antigens bind/cross link with enough BCRs on a splenic marginal zone B cell, B cell is activated/matures into antibody-secreting plasma cell (WITHOUT T CELL HELP!!!!!!!!!)
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T-dep vs T-inde: nature of antigen
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protein v polysaccharide
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T-dep vs T-inde: isotype of antibody
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switched v only IgM
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T-dep vs T-inde: affinity of antibody
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High v Low
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T-dep vs T-inde: lymphoid organs
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Lymphoid Follicles v Splenic Marginal Zones
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T-dep vs T-inde: memory
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Yes v NO
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Are T-inde antibody responses well developed in infants?
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No
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Are polysaccharide vaccines used in infants?
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No!
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How are polysaccharide antigens given to children?
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conjugated to proetin
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What does conjugation with a protein do?
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TURNS T-INDEPENDENT antigen into T-DEPENDENT ANTIGEN
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Hapten
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small chemical capable of binding to antibody, but incapable of eliciting antibody response
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What happens when hapten is attached to a larger molecule?
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antibody response specific for hapten occurs
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example of hapten?
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poison ivy
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Hapten is presented on MHC1 or MHC2 on B cells?
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MHC 2
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Immunization with polysaccharide conjugated to a carrier protein is used to stimulate a polysaccharide-specific __________ antibody response
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T-dependent
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In T-dependent antibody response, B cells present peptides from the carrier protein, but makes antibody specific to the ______
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polysaccharides, lipids, DNA
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Vaccines with attenuated viruses, viral vectors of DNA, can stimulate ______ responses
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Both cell-mediated (including CTLs) and antibody responses
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Vaccines with only proteins or polysaccharides stimulate mainly only_______ responses
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antibody responses
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Recombinant proteins are called ______ vaccines.
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synthetic vaccines
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Parts of microbes are called _______ vaccines
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subunit vaccines
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toxoid vaccines
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subunit vaccines that are inactivated toxins (formalin treated)
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Tetanus vaccine type
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toxoid
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DTaP is a ______ vaccine
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subunit (two toxoids and a pertussis protein)
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adjuvant
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a substance distinct from the antigen that enhances T cell activation by promoting accumulation of antigen-presenting cells (APCs) at the antigen site, and expression of costimulatory molecules and cytokines by APCs
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What is the classic human vaccine adjuvant?
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Alum (aluminum salts)
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Alum is an irritant, and as such causes ______
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leukocyte recruitment
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Adjuvant and killed or attenuated microbial vaccines
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not necessary, microbe is recognized without it
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monoclonal antibodies
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From one original B cell
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B cell from immunized mouse (antigen X) is fused with malignant plasma cell to create “hybrid”oma cell
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Hybridoma cells live indefinitely in culture producing exact same anti-X antibody as original B cell
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This antibody is monoclonal. Heavy and light chains of each antibody molecule are completely identical
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Monoclonal antibodies are used therapeutically/diagnostically
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Polyclonal Antibodies
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from several original B cells
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Any antigen will have several epitopes (antigenic sites or determinants)
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In “normal response” there will always be more than one naïve B cell that can bind the antigen
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All normal immune responses are polyclonal!
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Multiple myeloma:
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malignant clone of plasma cells; produce monoclonal antibody; diagnostic!
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What type of hypersensitivity is a TB skin test
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Type 4
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T cell Dependent B cell activation
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CD40 ligand on T cell, CD40 receptor on B cell,
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Why the better response to the old DTP vaccine?
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Stimulated the innate immune system also
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Recombinant proteins are
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proteins that have been synthesized
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Does vaccination produce the same response as natural infection?
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NO
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Are vaccines monoclonal or polyclonal?
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Polyclonal
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Your response to any antigen will be ________
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polyclonal!!!
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