Cell Recognition And The Immune System Flashcards
Where do you find antigens?
Cell surface membrane of foreign cells
Where do you find MHCs?
Cell surface membrane of non-self cells
What antibodies would someone with blood type A have?
Type B antibodies
What antibodies would someone with blood type B have?
Type A antibodies
What antibodies would someone with blood type O have?
Type A and type B antibodies
Which blood types can donate blood to blood type AB?
A, B, AB and O (all)
What are the two main types of defence mechanisms?
Specific (vertebrae only) and non-specific (vertebrae and non-vertebrae)
What is the non-specific defence mechanism?
Physical barriers (eg. Skin) and phagocytosis
What is the specific defence mechanism?
Cell mediated response and humoral response
Describe the cell mediated response
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes attack infected cells (intracellular pathogens) so infection doesn’t spread further
Describe the humoral response
B lymphocytes attack non-self species outside of the body cells (extracellular)
Outline the stages of the humoral response
Phagocytic B cell engulfs pathogen
Pathogen’s antigens are processed and presented on the outside of B cell
Activated T-helper cell (CD4+) binds to presented antigen with specific receptor, triggering the B cell to undergo mitosis and clonal selection
This forms a plasma cell or a memory cell
The plasma cell produces specific monoclonal antibodies (primary response)
The memory cell stays in the immune system for future infections (secondary response)
What do antibodies cause?
Opsonisation (more favourable to phagocytes) and agglutination (clumps to be better seen) so phagocytes can ingest and kill pathogen
What is active immunity?
Eg. Infection or vaccination
This stimulates the production of memory cells so longer term protection
What is passive immunity?
Eg. Maternal antibodies and monoclonal antibody treatment
No memory cells are made (only given antibodies) so just primary response and short term protection