Chapter 16: Innate host defense Flashcards
Infectious agents that invade and damage the body and the body’s power to resist such invasions
Infectious Disease
(1) Defense of the immune system that requires specific interactions and does not require previous exposure to the antigen to be active (2) Involves physical barriers, chemical and phagocytic cells (3) Also known as Nonspecific defenses (4) Naturally
Innate defense
(1) Defense that responds to a particular agent called antigens (2) Involves antibody producing cells and T cells which get help from phagocytes and responds specifically to a pathogen (3) Also known as adaptive
Acquired Immunity
Where is the location of antigens?
Antigens are molecules in or on Viruses and Pathogenic Bacteria
Antibodies
They are made specifically for certain antigens
Innate defense: genetic
Exists because of genetically determined characteristics
Innate defense: species
Exists in all members of a species, like all humans or all birds
Innate defense: Physical barriers
Skin, Mucous membrane, chemicals secreted by mucous membrane
Innate defense: Chemical barriers
Antimicrobial substances in the body, Saliva, Mucus, Gastric Juices, Iron limitation mechanisms
This defense acts to destroy pathogen or inactivate the toxic products that have gained entry or to prevent the pathogen from damaging additional tissue
Innate defense
Consists of certain cells that engulf invading microorganisms
Cellular defenses
Phagocytize
Engulf cells
The reddening, swelling and temperature increases in tissue at site of infection
Inflammation
The elevation of body temp to kill invading agents and/or inactivate their toxic products
Fever
Examples are interferons and complement, this defense destroys or impedes invading microbes
Molecular defenses
Over activity of innate responses
Leads to autoimmune problems such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis
Under activity of Innate responses
Will leave the host susceptible to overwhelming infections leading to death (sepsis)
Physical barriers of innate response
(1) Skin is the forefront (2) Mucosa covers tissues and the organs of the body cavity that are exposed to the exterior (3) Throwing up, Tears, Sneezing, Coughing, Diarrhea (4) Urinary flow removes microbes from the UT
Chemical barriers if innate response
(1) Sweat gland of the skin have high salt (2) Sebaceous glands have acidic pH (3) Acidic pH in stomach (4) Interferons
Interferons
(1) Prevent other cells from being infected, its a signaling method through chemicals
Lysozyme: Location and Purpose
(1) Location: tears, saliva, mucus (2)Cleaves covalent linkage between sugars in PG layer, so gram + susceptible
Transferrin: Location and Purpose
(1) A protein present in the blood plasma, bind iron (2) Binding iron by transferrin leads to inhibition of bacterial growth in blood stream
Lactoferrin: Location and Purpose
(1) Present in saliva, mucus and milk (2) Binds to iron inhibiting bacterial growth
Defensins: location and Purpose
(1) Present in mucus and extracellular fluids (2) hey are a group of molecules that kill pathogens by forming spores in their membrane to inhibit growth (3) Small peptides
Cellular defenses: examples
(1) We survive minor breaks and scrapes in our skin (2) Blood flowing out of wound is a mechanism to flush the microbe out (3) blood clotting helps seal off the injured spot temporarily until permanent repair can be done
These cells use special purpose cells found in the blood and other tissues of the body
Defensive cells
Erythrocytes, Platelets, Leukocytes are derived from this cell
Pluripotent stem cells
Pluripotent stem cells
Cells that form a continuous supply of blood cells in the bone marrow
Platelets
(1) Short lived fragments of large cells, such as megkaryocytes (2) Involved in blood clotting
Leukocytes
Defensive cells important to adaptive and innate host defenses
2 groups of Leukocytes
Granulocytes and Aggranulocytes
Cells produced from Myeloid Stem Cells (bone marrow)
(1) Myeloblasts (2) Basophils, Eosinophils, Nautrophils, Dendritic cells
Cells produced from Lymphoid stem cells (bone marrow)
(1) Lymphoblast [mature in thymus at this point] (2) B lymphocyte, T lymphocyte, NK cell
Cells produced from Monoblasts
(1) Monoblasts derive from myeloid cells (2) Monoblasts become Monocytes
Granulocytes WBCs: Types of Cells
Basophils, Eosinophils, Neutrophils, Dendritic cells
Aggranulocytes WBCs: Types of Cells
monocytes, B lymphocytes, T lymphocytes, NK cells