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10-Innate Host Resistance Flashcards

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Susceptibility?

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The lack of resistance to a disease.

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Immunity?

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Ability to ward off a disease.

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Immune system?

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Recognizes foreign substances or microbes and acts to neutralize or destroy them.

  • composed of widely distributed cells, tissues, and organs.
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Innate immunity?

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Defenses against any pathogen

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Adaptive immunity?

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Immunity or resistance to a specific pathogen

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Components of the first line of defense?

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  • skin
  • mucus membranes and their secretions
  • normal microbiota
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Components of second line of defense?

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  • phagocytes, such as neutrophils, eosinophils, dendritic cells, and macrophages
  • inflammation
  • fever
  • antimicrobial substances
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Components of third line of defense?

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  • specialized lymphocytes: T cells and B cells

- antibodies

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B cell activation leads to what?

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The production of antibodies

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What are some direct factors that can impact our physical barriers?

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  • nutrition
  • physiology
  • fever
  • age
  • genetics
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What are some indirect factors that can impact our barriers?

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  • personal hygiene
  • socioeconomic status
  • living conditions
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How does lysozyme act as an antimicrobial secretion?

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Hydrolyzes bond connecting sugars in peptidoglycan

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How does lactoferrin act as an antimicrobial secretion?

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Secreted by activated macrophages and PMNs. Also, sequesters iron from plasma

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How does lactoperoxidase act as an antimicrobial secretion?

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By producing superoxide radicals

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Why is it that the lower respiratory system is free of microbes?

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Because of alveolar macrophages in the lungs that eliminate microbes

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Paneth cells of the intestinal tract produces these antimicrobial substances? (2)

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  • lysozyme

- cryptins

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Bacteriocins?

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Toxic proteins that are lethal to other strains of the same species of closely related bacteria

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Three majors activities of the complement system?

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  • defending against bacterial infections
  • bridging innate and adaptive immunity
  • disposing of wastes
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What are the three pathways of complement activation?

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  • alternative pathway
  • lectin pathway
  • classical pathway
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This complement path way begins with the activation of C3 and eventually results in the formation of a membrane attack complex?

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Alternative complement pathway

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This complement pathway is usually dependent on antibody-antigen interactions and result in opsonization, chemotaxis and the membrane attack complex?

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Classical complement pathway

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This complement pathway begins with the activation of C3 and lectin binding?

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Lectin complement pathway

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Cytokines?

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Soluble proteins or glycoproteins that are released by one cell population that act as intercellular mediators or SIGNALING MOLECULES

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These can bind bacterial surfaces and act as opsonins?

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Acute phase proteins

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What are your granulocytes?
- eosinophils - basophils - neutrophils
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Name some of the formed elements in the blood. (8)
- RBCs - Leukocytes - monocytes - dendritic cells - natural killer cells - t-cells - b-cells - platelets
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Primary organs and tissues?
Sites where lymphocytes mature and differentiate into antigen-sensitive mature B and T cells
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Secondary organs and tissues?
Areas where lymphocytes may encounter and bind antigen - followed by proliferation and differentiation into fully mature effector cells
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These recognize and bind unique PAMPs of viruses, bacteria, or fungi?
Toll-like receptors (TLRs)
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Susceptibility?
The lack of resistance to a disease
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Inflammation?
Nonspecific response to tissue injury. Characterized by redness, warmth, pain, swelling, and altered function
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The presence of antigens in the body ultimately lead to ___________ which leads to the production of antibodies?
B-cell activation
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This chemical participates in the first line of defense and is responsible for forming a protective acidic film over the skin surfaces that inhibits microbial growth?
Sebum
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What are the three major activities of the complement system?
- defending against bacterial infections - bridging innate and adaptive immunity - disposing of wastes
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What is opsonization?
Process in which microorganisms or inanimate particles are coated by serum components, thereby preparing them for recognition and ingestion by phagocytic cells.
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Name some effects of complement activation.
- opsonization or immune adherence: enhanced phagocytosis - membrane attack complex: cytolysis - attract phagocytes
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This complement pathway is dependent on integration of host mannose-binding protein (MBP) with pathogen surfaces?
Lectin complement pathway
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List three ways that some bacteria can evade the complement system.
- capsules prevent C activation - surface lipid-carbohydrates prevent membrane attack complex (MAC) formation - enzymatic digestion of C5a
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Autocrines?
Affect the same cell responsible for their production
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Paracrines?
Affect nearby cells
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Endocrines?
Spread by circulatory system to distant target cells
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Monokines?
Released from mononuclear phagocytes
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Lymphokines?
Released from T lymphocytes
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Interleukins?
Released from one leukocyte and act on another leukocyte
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Colony stimulating factors (CsFs)?
Stimulate growth and differentiation of immature leukocyte a in bone marrow
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What are the most common causes of fever?
- Viral infection - bacterial infection - bacterial endotoxin
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These interferons cause cells to produce antiviral proteins that inhibit viral replication?
IFN- alpha and IFN- beta
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This interferon causes neutrophils and macrophages to phagocytize bacteria?
IFN- gamma
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What are the two ways a microbe can be recognized by a phagocyte?
- opsonin-independent (nonopsonic) recognition | - opsonin- dependent (opsonic) pathway
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Pathogen- associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) are unique to microbes, not present in the host. Name two examples.
- Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of Gram-negative bacteria | - Peptidoglycan of gram-positive bacteria
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These recognize pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)?
Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) on/ in phagocytic cells
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These are a class of PRRs that function exclusively as signaling receptors?
Toll-like receptors (TLRs)
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Phagolysosome?
Vacuole which results from the fusion of phagosome with lysosome
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How do streptococcus pyogenes and S. pneumoniae evade phagocytosis?
Inhibit adherence: M proteins, capsules
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How does staphylococcus aureus evade phagocytosis?
Kills phagocytes: Leukocidins
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How does Listeria monocytogenes evade phagocytosis?
Lyase phagocytes: membrane attack complex
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How do Shigella and Rickettsia evade phagocytosis?
Escape the phagosome
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How do HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis evade phagocytosis?
Prevent phagosome-lysosome fusion
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How does Coxiella burnettii evade phagocytosis?
Survive in phagolysosome
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Why is antigen presentation important?
It is important because it allows wandering lymphocytes to become activated. Also, because it links nonspecific and specific immune responses
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What are some of the chemical mediators involved in the a cute inflammatory response?
- selectins - integrins - chemotaxins
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List the processes involved in the acute inflammatory response?
Neutrophil rolling---> marginal ion---> diapedesis---> extravasion
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What is the most common cause of fever?
Viral or bacterial infection or bacterial endotoxin
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What are some advantages of fever as a defense mechanism (3)?
- T-cell production increases dues to increase in IL-1 - increase transferrins - speeds up repair process
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What are some disadvantages to fever as a defensive mechanism?
- tachycardia - acidosis due to increased metabolic rate - dehydration - death above 44C to 46C (112F to 1114F)
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What is the function of histamine released by a damaged cell?
Vasodilation, increases permeability of blood vessels
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What are the functions of kinins released by damaged cells?
Vasodilation, increase permeability of blood vessels
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What are the effects of prostaglandins released by damaged cells?
Intensify histamine and kinin effects
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What are the effects of leukotrienes released by damaged cells?
Increased permeability of blood vessels, phagocytic attachment

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