Cytokines & Virus classes (advanced editing) Flashcards
What is the mnemonic “hot T-bone steak”?
What cells secrete IL-1? What does it do?
Macrophages
- Fever (remember “hot T-bone steak”)
- Activates the endothelium to express adhesion molecules (Adhesion molecules are ICAM, VCAM on endothelial cells that bind to integrins of neutrophils/ macrophages to stop them in their tracks so they can then migrate across the vessel wall and get into tissue to fight an infection.)
- Recruits WBCs by causing cytokine secretion
What cells secrete IL-6? What does it do?
Macrophages
- Causes fever
- Stimulates production of acute phase proteins (from the liver) (remember “Hot T-bone steak”)
What cells secrete IL-8? What does it do?
Macrophages
recruits neutrophils
Neutrophils are attracted by what 4 things?
- LTB4 (leukotriene B4)
- C5a
- IL-8
- Bacterial products
What cells secrete IL-12? What does it do?
Macrophages
- Activates NK cells
- Induces differentiation of CD4 T-cells into Th1 T-cells
What cells secrete TNF-alpha? What does it do? Also, what role does this cytokine play in cancer, TB, sepsis?
Macrophages
1. Activates edothelium
2. Vascular leak
3. Recruits WBCs
**also causes cachexia (weight/ muscle loss) in cancer and maintains granulomas in TB. Can also mediate sepsis (along with IL-1 and 6).
What cells secrete IL-2? What does it do?
all T-cells
- Activates NK cells
- Stimulates growth of T-cells (CD4, CD8, and T-reg) (remember “Hot T-bone steak”)
What cells secrete IL-3? What does it do?
all T-cells
Promotes growth and differentiation of bone marrow stem cells (*functions like GM-CSF, or granulocyte-macrophage stimulating factor)
What cells secrete INF-gamma? What does it do?
NK cells & Th1 cells (in response to antigen or IL-12 from macrophages bc IL-12 stimulates NK cells and differentiation of CD4 T-cells—> Th1)
- Stimulates macrophages to kill phagocytosed pathogens
- Inhibits differentiation to Th2 cells
**also activates NK cells to kill virus-infected cells and increases MHC expression and antigen-presentation by all APCs.
What cells secrete IL-4? What does it do?
Th2 cells
- Induces differentiation of CD4 T-cells into Th2
- Promotes growth of B-cells
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Class switching to IgG, IgE “For (IL-4–>) my G.E. (IgG, IgE) I took Bio 5A (IL-5–> IgA).”
* (also remember “Hot T-bone steak”)*
What cells secrete IL-5? What does it do?
Th2 cells
- Stimulates growth and differentiation of eosinophils
- Promotes growth and differentiation of B-cells
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Class switching to IgA “For (IL-4–>) my G.E. (IgG, IgE) I took Bio 5A (IL-5–> IgA).”
* (also remember “Hot T-bone steak”)*
What cells secrete IL-10? What does it do?
Th2 cells and T-reg. cells
Decreases expression of/ inhbits Th1, macrophages, dendritic cells, MHC II
Attenuates (decreases) the inflammatory response
What 2 cytokines attenuate (decrease) the inflammatory response?
TGF-beta and IL-10
What cells secrete INF-alpha and INF-beta? What does it do?
Infected cells
protects neighboring cells from viruses (“primes them” for viral defense by helping to degrade viral nucleic acid and protein)
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