Autoimmunity And Transplantation Flashcards
What’s the significance of immunological tolerance?
Contrast central and peripheral tolerance
Contrast central tolerance of T cells
Contrast positive and negative selection
How are self-antigens expressed in the thymus?
What is autoimmune polyglandular syndrome?
What are tolerogens?
What happens when tolerance fails?,
What are the causes of autoimmunity?
What causes MHC locus disease?
What are immune privileged sites?
What are the significance of CTLA-4 for autoimmunity?
Which immune reactions can lead to autoimmunity?
Type 2,3, and 4
What is type 2 cytotoxicity?
What are the non-cytotoxic type 2 types of autoimmunity?
How is pernicious anemia a type 2 non-cytotoxic aytiimmunity?
How are antibodies involved in type 2 autoimmune/hypersensitivity?
What is good pastures?
What hypersensitivity type are systemic autoimmune diseases?
What is lupus?
What is the use of antinuclear antibody screening
What is rheumatoid arthritis?b
What are assoc8ated with rheumatoid association?
Describe type 4 autoimmune diseases
What is Hashimoto’s thyroiditis?
What type of hypersensitivity leads to type 2 diabetes
What is the impact of T cells?
What are the common types of hypersensitivity?
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