Complement cascade

Question 1

What are the 3 different pathways involved in the complement pathway?

Answer 1

Classical pathway

Alternative pathway

Leptin pathway

Question 2

What activates the classical pathway of the complement cascade?

Answer 2

Immune complexes

Question 3

What activate the alternative pathway of the complememnt cascade?

Answer 3

The direct binding of complelemt proteins to pathogens

Question 4

What actives the Leptin pathway of the complement cascasde?

Answer 4

Mannose Binding Leptin (MBL)

Question 5

What is the complement cascade?

Answer 5

Process of the immune systsem that allows antibodies and phagocytes to bugger microbes

Question 6

The 3 complement cascade pathways all activate what?

Answer 6

C3 convertase

Question 7

When C3 convertase is activated from one of the 3 complement cascade pathways, what 2 things does it form into?

Answer 7

C3a

C3b

Question 8

In the complement cascade, what activates C5 convertase, C3a or C3b?

Answer 8

C3b

Question 9

The final stage of the complement cascade is C5 convertase triggering what?

Answer 9

Membrane attack complex

Question 10

What is the formed at the end of the complement cascade?

Answer 10

Membrane attack complex