10. Autoimmunity II Flashcards

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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (Type I)

• Antigen:
– Pancreatic ____-cells; insulin

• Pathogenesis:
– ____ infiltrate>insulitis; autoAb are present but not ____

• Strong association with MHC ____ genes

• Infectious component:
– ____, rubella, ____ virus (____)

* Minor form where insulin is the target, but mostly b-cells
* MHCII > may serve as a receptor for infectious org's (mumps/rubella/cox) > not \_\_\_\_ > leads to break in tolerance > autoreactive T cells (cell-mediated response)
* May carry autoAb, but do not \_\_\_\_
* Result of gradual destruction of b cells (takes \_\_\_\_) > threshold is met > not enough b-cells > not enough insulin > overt diabetes (\_\_\_\_ onset)
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beta
T-cell
destructive
class II
mumps
coxsackie
antigenic mimicry

all or none
contribute
years
sudden

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• Histopathology:
– Lymphocytic infiltrate within the ____

* MT: biopsy of normal pancrease > islet of langerhans
* MB: early stages of \_\_\_\_ diabetes > dark staining > T cells > interacting with \_\_\_\_ and induce apoptosis
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islets of langerhans
type I
b-cells

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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (Type I)

• Clinical symptoms:
– Insulin deficiency leads to accumulation of ____ and fatty acids;
– ____, polydypsia, wt. loss, fatigue, visual disturbances

• Clinical complications:
– \_\_\_\_ failure
– Susceptibility to early and accelerated \_\_\_\_
– Susceptibility to severe periodontitis
– Impaired wound healing
– \_\_\_\_
– Neuropathy
– Oral complications:
• Increased frequency and severity of \_\_\_\_ disease
• Delayed healing
• \_\_\_\_ enlargement (diabetic sialadenosis)
• Oral candidiasis
* Predominantly \_\_\_\_
* No glucose (no insulin) > polyuria (bc of hypoosmolality due to glucose) > \_\_\_\_, drink a lot > loss of electrolytes > leads to \_\_\_\_
* Switch from burning glucose to burning FA/protein; no carbohydrates; loss of calories bc glucose cannot be utilized > exhibit \_\_\_\_
* Mobilize fat/protein > acidosis (keto-acids) > in order to equilibrate, labored breathing, deep breathing, smell acetone due to \_\_\_\_ bodies
* Right: shows clinical manfiestations of diabetes; but Type I are highlighted in blue
* Clinical manifestations apply to uncontrolled diabetic typically
* Parotid enalrgement > diabetic sialynosis
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gluose
polyuria
renal
atherosclerosis
retinopathy
periodontal
parotid

metabolic
dehydrated

polyphagia
ketone

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Sjogren Syndrome

• Etiology/Antigen:
– \_\_\_\_ ? (EBV, Hep C)
– Cytoskeletal protein- \_\_\_\_
– 0.5% prevalence (\_\_\_\_ f/m)
– Primary (\_\_\_\_ alone) vs secondary (occurs with other autoimmune disease such as \_\_\_\_ and SLE)

• Pathogenesis:
– T-cells (____) infiltration and fibrosis of ____ and salivary glands
– AutoAb-present , but do not appear to significantly ____ to disease nor are they diagnostically useful
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• Combo of genetic predisposition; ____ may contribute (accounting for 9:1); T cells/cytokine/macro-driven, glandular epi destroyed and turned into ____ tissue
• Left: salivary gland; which are ____
• TR: dense infiltrate of inflam cells > CD4/CD8, cytos, macro’s > converted to ____ tissue (deposition of collagen, nonfunctional glandular elements)

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virus
alpha-fodrin
9:1
sicca syndrome
RA
CD4
lacrimal
contribute
estrogen
fibrotic
mixed
fibrotic
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Sjogren Syndrome
• Clinical symptoms:
– Afflicts ____ women (50-60)
– Sicca syndrome:
• xerostomia: difficulty swallowing ____ food, decrease taste
– cracks and fissures, ____ of buccal mucosa
– dry and fissured tongue with atrophy of papillae
– ____ gland enlargement
• xerophthalmia
– Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eyes): ____ vision, burning and ____

* Lose taste > sicca syndrome > atrophy of tongue > fissured; also appears on buccal
* R: enlarged parotid > dense inflam infiltrate (T cells)
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older
solid
dryness
parotid
blurred
itching
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• ____ biopsy: often used for diagnosis—____
salivary glands
• Tx: supportive, artificial ____ and saliva
• Risk (5-15%) of low grade ____ lymphoma

Lip biopsy: lymphocytic ____ and mucous gland ____

• L: presence of infiltrate
	○ \_\_\_\_ cells is positive diagnosis
• Supportive therapy to treat
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tears
non-hodgkin B-cell
infiltrate
atrophy
25-50
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Connective Tissue Diseases
(Collagen diseases)
• Pathogenesis:
– \_\_\_\_, complement, PMN and platelets
– Injury to components of \_\_\_\_ wall (collagen, elastin and proteoglycans)
– \_\_\_\_ and obstruction
– \_\_\_\_ necrosis of arteries and \_\_\_\_
• Examples:
– \_\_\_\_
– Rheumatoid arthritis
– \_\_\_\_
– Polyarteritis nodosa
* Autoimmune diseases involving a wide array of tissue
* Scleroderma - read the textbook
* Pathogenic mechanism similar to type \_\_\_\_ hypersensitivity
* Basic lesion associated with vasculitis (BV); but also bc \_\_\_\_ are also activated and aggregate and cause microthrombi
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immune complexes
blood vessel
vasculitis
fibrinoid
arterioles

SLE
scleroderma
III
platelets

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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

• AutoAb to several antigens:
– \_\_\_\_, ssDNA,\_\_\_\_, RNA,
\_\_\_\_ (ANA)
– Specific cells:
•\_\_\_\_ 
• Erythrocytes 
• \_\_\_\_

– Other antigens:
• ____, thyroglobulin, ____ components, phospholipids (alter clotting time)

• Antibody to nuclear antigens is a hallmark > \_\_\_\_ (ANA) > made to dsDNA, ssDNA, smith antigen, RNA, histones
	○ No single patient presents with all of these, the \_\_\_\_ will present with all of them
	○ Most common is to \_\_\_\_ antigen
	○ Trigger immune complexes (type \_\_\_\_ like rxn)
• Table - detection of ANA is a diagnostic criteria in diagnosing, but it is no \_\_\_\_ to this disease (other disorders have it is, SS (systemic sclerosis), polymyositis)
• Depending on where the antigen is in the \_\_\_\_ is a different pattern of fluorescence
	○ Most common: \_\_\_\_ fluorescence
• Complex, not only have ANA, but also have other auto-ab's > lympho's, erythro's, platelets > type II rxn (\_\_\_\_, not hypersensitivity)
• RF - rhematoid factors - inflam of joints, similar to \_\_\_\_ but not identical
• Ab to thyroglobulin - \_\_\_\_ disorder (not identical, complication of lupus)
• Ab to phospholipids - attack clotting factors - patients have problems with \_\_\_\_
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dsDNA
Sm
histones
lymphocytes
platelets
RFs
coagulant
anti-nuclear autoantibodies
population
Sm
III
exclusive
nucleus
rimmed
autoimmunity
RA
hasimoto-like
coagulation
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SLE etiology and pathogeneisis
• Etiology
– infection, hormone (____), drugs, stress, impaired ability to repair ____ breaks
– Genetic factors: ____ association, ____ association
– UV light (Photosensitivity)
– Defective ____ tolerance

• Pathogenesis:
– ____ formation (ANA-DNA complexes
– ____ auto Ab
– Thrombosis (anti-phospholipid Ab)

• Lupus etiology different
	○ Estrogen - hyper-active on immune response > promote overreaction; \_\_\_\_ develop more than men
• Episodic onset - UV light - hyper-photosensitive
• Little tolerance to antigens - within cells [???]
• \_\_\_\_ susceptibility > how B/T cells see self 
• An assumption is that normally when cells undergo apoptosis (may be due to UV) > break into apoptotic bodies; may be a defect in \_\_\_\_ of bodies which occurs by local phagocytes > exposure of immune system to contents of bodies > immune response > high antinuclear-antibody titer
	○ Epithelial cells exposed to UV, no clearance
	○ Kidneys, lungs, joint; complexes travel via bloodstream
• Develop lesion - rash on skin - initially develops anywhere where surface is exposed to sun; lesions similar to \_\_\_\_ (if deveop IgM ab's)
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estrogen
DNA
familial
HLA
peripheral

immune complex
secondary

women
genetic
clearance
raynouds

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Clinical Manifestations of SLE

• Skin and Mucocutaneous lesions:
– ____ rash (butterfly rash)
– Photosensitivity
– Erythematous, maculopapular plaques and ulcers
– Oral ulcers
• Arthritis
• ____ (proteinuria, HTN and insufficiency)
• Serositis (pericarditis and pleuritis)
• ____ (anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia and lymphopenia)
• Cardiovascular Manifestations - ____ or symptomatic (tachycardia and/or abnormal ECG)
• CNS (____, pscyhosis): autoAb, cytokines??
• ____ signs: fatigue, fever, myalgia, wt. loss)

* Most common - butterfly rash 
* \_\_\_\_ - around the heart (immune complexes)
* Secondary ab > hematologic outcomes
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malar
renal
hematologic
asymptomatic
seizures
constitutional
serositis
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SLE: Skin and mucocutaneous lesions
– ____ rash
– Photosensitivity
– ____, maculopapular plaques and ulcers

* Start off on sun exposed surfaces > can develop anywhere as \_\_\_\_ form
* Prominent on skin over \_\_\_\_ surfaces
A

malar
eryhematous
immune complexes
flexor

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• Complexes form, in areas of ____ flow and bifurcations > ____ vasculitis (in the skin area, within the subdermal CT), BV destroyed (adverse effects on blood supply), some vessels have ____ necrosis (no EC left)

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turbulent
necrotizing
fibrinoid

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  • Degeneration of basal cell layer > immune complexes form, in and around the cutaneous tissue and up against the epithelium
    • Non-diseased that hasn’t been destroyed (left) > ANA (complexes) > ____ band (____ here against the BM, will be destroyed by complement, and attraction of PMN > degeneration of ____ cells)
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positive
IgG
basal

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SLE: oral ulcers

* Patients quite often early in disease process > develop oral ulcers (\_\_\_\_!)
* these lesions will fit into differential diagnosis of other diseases as Rosef \_\_\_\_; this is important bc it early sign of a systemic disorder and speaks to the important role we play as dentists in detecting some morbid systemic diseases.
A

anywhere

lichen planus

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SLE: Renal manifestations
• Critical feature of SLE - may lead to ____, HTN and insufficiency
– ____ glomerular capillary loops
– granular deposits of immunoglobulin and complement
– Urinalysis reveals ____ and ____ casts

* Same rxn with immune-complex mediated hypersens
* Can accumulate anywhere, but within BV in areas of \_\_\_\_ flow
* Activate complement > C5a/5,6,7 > recruit PMN > activated, in digesting complexes > release lysosomal enzymes > \_\_\_\_ vasculitis
* Chemotactic factors, also develop dilated BV, and edema (bc C3a, C5a)
* Platelet agg, formation of microthombi > ischemia > tissue necrosis
* Glomerular nephrotisi > starts in glomeruluis; positive immunofluorescence (for \_\_\_\_ or complement [\_\_\_\_])
* Protein ends up in urine, RBC and WBC > end up as casts (from the kidney tubules)
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proteinuria
thickened
RBC
WBC
turbulent
necrotizing
IgG
C3
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  • C5a/C3a > ____ > histamine > vasodil/permeability; platelets activated to release mediators
    • Increasing vas perm > allows complexes to accumulate bt endo cells; retained by BM; complement activation > ____ accumulation > and then release of enzymes and destruction of ____
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basophil
PMN
endothelium

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  • Left: normal glomerulus
    • Middle-top: lupus glomerulus; ____ cap walls, and becomes ____ (middle-bottom) due to PMN/macro’s > stain this (right) for ____ > lumpy-bumpy
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thickened
hypercellular
IgG/C3

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• LE Cell
– ____ neutrophil or macrophage that has phagocytized the denatured ____ material of another cell
– May be seen with other autoimmune diseases involving ____

* Blood taken from patients > heparinized so blood doesn't clot
* During course of drawing blood, cells are destroyed > if patients plasma contains ANA > nucleus of RBC is exposed, autoAb binds to nucleus > tubes being left at RT, blood will live > opsonized nucleus will be taking up by living PMN > PMN (\_\_\_\_ against neutrophil)
A

peripheral
nuclear
ANA
nucleus

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Chronic Discoid Lupus
• Antigen:
– ____?

• Pathogenesis:
– ____ formation

• Clinical symptoms:
– “____-like” lesions confined to ____ (areas exposed to sunlight)
– ____ plaques on face and scalp
• Clinical appearance alone not sufficient to differentiate from ____
• A continuum with SLE???

• Unknown what the antigen is
• This is a disease that "may" involve immune complexes. The patients presents with discoid lesions
(very different from ones of \_\_\_\_).
• Lesions are limited to the skin & pts rarely present w/ \_\_\_\_ complications.
• Not clear if part of a continuum of lupus or perhaps occurs in the presence of a low-titer of nuclear
antibodies or maybe they do not play a role??!! (he just wanted us to be familiar with it).
• Its \_\_\_\_ manifestations alone does not allow for diagnosis.
• not clear what its relationship is w/ lupus
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ANA
immune complex
coin
skin
erythematous
SLE

SLE
systemic
clinical

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

RA:
• is a complex disease; part of category of inflammatory arthritis diseases (specifically ____ inflammation) and is known to be ____
• ..so RA is a disorder that is initiated by loss of tolerance leading to an autoimmune reaction, predominantly
____ which will persist in the joints leading to chronic inflammation (this differs slightly from what we learned in M1 bec, here the stimulus is a ____-stimulus and not a foreign antigen trigger).

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chronic
autoimmune
immune complexes
self

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Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Antigen:
– ____ (abnormal glycosylation)

• Pathogenesis:
– Triggers:
• ____, genetic, infectious, ____ factors
– autoAb: ____ – immune complex
– Pannus formation: ____, edema, inflammatory infiltrate

• Class of IgG that are abnormally \_\_\_\_
	○ Antigen doesn't matter
	○ Now seen as foreign (altered-self)
• AutoAb that's made to abnormally glycosylated IgG = RF (\_\_\_\_ made against ab) > inflammation in joints
	○ Unknwon while restricted to small-medium-sized joints
• Vasculitis due to comp activation, and edema in confined space > debilitating (not just painful) > chronic inflam > T/plasma/fibroblasts (no \_\_\_\_)
• Modification of self-protein (citruliation? - arginine degradation) > activation of Th1, autoAb, and Th17 (drive inflammation) > abnormalities within the small/medium-sized joints > \_\_\_\_ formation
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IgG
environmental
hormonal
rheumatoid factor (RF)
vasculitis
glycosylated
ab
granuloma
pannus
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• Left: normal joint
○ Articulating surface on two bones >.articulating cartilage > surrounded by synovial membrane > and within is synovial fluid > lubrication > surorund by a capsule
• Midde: formation of immune complexes
○ Form in synovial ____ > leads to ____ exudate (some destruction of syn membrane)
• Right: not only to thickening of synovial lining (green) > erode ____ > all mediated by inflam cells > immune complex triggered accumlation of ____ > thickening of pannus, and destruction of cartilage > joint becomes less and less ____ as you destroy cartilage

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lining
fibrinous
cartilage
PMN
mobile
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  • Damage starts in synovial ____, it’s complex drive > PMN attraction as a result of comp acitvation > chronic effect > do not just have fibrin/edema due to changes in vasc perm > synovial thickens > persistent inflam that becomes chroic > synovium starts to encroach > ____ membrane and encroach on joint
    • Severely inflamed lesion > pannus (enzymes, cytokines) > articualting cartiage is destroyed, joint is ____ > pannus encroach and the joint becomes deformed > ____ (joint is now rigid, bone formation)
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lining
thin
edematous
ankylosis