Adaptive/specfic Immune Flashcards
What does specificity mean?
Recognize a specific foreign substances
What’s another name for non self ?
Foreign
What does self mean?
In your own body cells
What does foreign mean?
Bacteria, viruses, pollen, transplanted tissues
What does memory mean?
If you recover from a specific infection, you are immune to it when exposed again
what is Antigen?
Substance that stimulates and immune response
What is specific acquired immunity mediated by?
Lymphocytes
T cells
B cells
Where does T cells develop ?
Thymus development
What does T cells promote?
Cellular immunity
Where does B cells develop?
Bone marrow
What does B cells help promote?
Humoral immunity
Are my selfs, different from your self’s foreign?
Yes, because my cells are different from your cells
What are the 2 big things that make specific stand out from innate?
Specificity & memory
B cells originate and mature in?
Bone marrow
What does B cells produce?
Antibody molecules that recognize & bind to antigens
T cells originate and mature in?
Originate bone marrow
Mature in thymus
Why can’t you get chicken pox again?
It lays dormant & goes into your memory cells
What type of T cells receptors have and surface on?
TCR
Recognizes antigen on the surface of a target cell
Which cells is mainly involved with humoral immunity?
B cells
What immune system is only extracellular?or cell?
Humoral immune system
B cells
Antigen is the ____
That Activates our immune system
To make a ____
Foreign substance
Antibody
How many antigens do you think we will encounter in our life?
Whatever is more than trillion, even more after that, just a shit ton
What are T cells subdivided into?
acquired immunity
What is acquired immunity?
Protection that develops over a lifetime against a specific antigen, either after an infection or vaccination
Acquired immunity can either occur? (4)
Naturally or artificially
Actively or passively
What is naturally acquired active immunity?
Antigens enter the body naturally
Body induced a antibodies & specialized lymphocytes
What is naturally acquires passive immunity?
Antibodies pass from mother to fetus via placenta
Or to infant via mothers milk
What is artificially acquired active immunity?
Antigens are introduced in vaccines
Body produces antibodies & specialized lymphocytes
What is artificially acquired passive immunity?
Preformed antibodies in immune serum are introduced after injection
What is active immunity ?
Your own cells
What is passive immunity?
Giving you a dose of antibodies
Is passive immunity short duration?
Yes
What is this example? If you get sick with measles, what type of immunity, you’ll develop? Actibe or passive?
Naturally acquired active immunity
What is the example of naturally acquired passive immunity?
Mother to baby
Via mothers milk or placenta
Antibodies Recognize antigens?
Yes
How long passive immunity antibodies stay in the body?
2 months
How long is the baby protected against antigens ? In naturally passive?
2 months
When do we start vaccinating childern and why?
2 months
Because they just lost passive immunity from mom
What are some examples of artificially acquired active ?
Vaccination!!
( fly shot, polio vaccine ! )
What are examples of artificially acquired passive immunity?
Manufacturing antibodies that we ingest so the body can make its own antibodies
( to prevent really bad sickness )
You get bitten by a snake, what do we use? What does this vaccine do?
Anti venom
Vaccine is made somewhere else to make antibodies for it
So we inject it into you so you can have those anti bodies so your body can help more with the venom of the snake
Is artificially acquired passive immediate protection?
Yea
Is artificially acquired passive immunity forever?
No
You haven’t kept up with your tetanus shot, you step on a rusty nail, how can I protect you immediate?
Through artificially acquired passive immunity
( pre formed antibodies enter the body )
You get bitten by a fox, you don’t have the rabies vaccine, what am I going to do?
Artificially acquired passive immunity
( anti bodies for the rabies virus )
What is the advantage and disadvantage for artificially acquired passive immunity?
Advantage - immediate
Disadvantage - not for long time
Does the epi pen work like adaptive immunity ?
NO!!! They are chemicals to help vasoconstriction!!!
Specific acquired immune system can be divided into 2 groups? What are they
Humoral immune system
Cell mediated immune system
What is humoral immune system cell?
B lymphocytes
What is humoral immune system mediated by?
Antibody
Is humoral immune system extracellular or intracellular
Extracellular
What is humoral immune system effective with?
Bacteria, bacterial toxins, circulating viruses from floating blood and fluids
What are cell mediated immune system, what cells?
T lymphocytes
What is cell mediated immune system mediated by?
Direct cell to cell interactions
What is cell mediated immune system? Extracellular or intracellular?
Intracellular
What is cell mediated immune system effective with?
Viruses, fungi, cancer cell, transplants
What does humoral immunity focus on? What part of the body?
Fluid part of the body ( blood, serum )
Summarize humoral immune system & cell mediated immune
(4)
( cell, mediated, extra or inter, focus on ?)
Humoral
- b lymphocytes
- antibody mediated
- extracellular
- focus on blood & fluid inside body
Cell mediated
- T lymphocytes
- mediated by direct cell to cell
- intracellular
- focus on viruses, cancer cells