[DISCUSSION] ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY Flashcards
•Develops as a response to infection
and adapts to the infection
ADAPTIVE
•Potent protective responses are
acquired by experience
•“Specific”
•“Acquired”
Adaptive/ Acquired/ Specific Immunity
•COMPONENTS:
•Lymphocytes and their products
Features of Adaptive Immunity
- Specificity
- Diversity
- Memory
- Clonal expansion
- Specialization
- Self-limitation
- Discrimination of self from /mfechan nonself
• Ensures that distinct antigens elicit specific
responses
- Specificity
• Enables immune system to respond to a large
variety of antigens
- Diversity
• Leads to enhanced responses to repeated
exposures to the same antigens
- Memory
•Increases number of antigen-specific
lymphocytes to keep pace with microbes
- Clonal Expansion
•Generate responses that are optimal for
defense against different types of
microbes
- Specialization
•Allows immune system to respond to newly
encountered antigens
- Self-limitation
•Prevents injury to the host during
responses to foreign antigens
- Discrimination of self from nonself
Types of Acquired Immunity
- Active Immunity
- Passive immunity
- Active Immunity
• Natural Active
• Artificial active
- Passive immunity
• Natural Passive
• Artificial Passive
Onset of immunity ACTIVE
Slow/ acquired gradually (5 – 14 d)
Onset of immunity PASSIVE
Immediate
Duration of effect ACTIVE
Long-term
Duration of effect PASSIVE
Short term
Source ACTIVE
Self
Source PASSIVE
Non-self
Immunizing agent ACTIVE
Antigen
Immunizing agent PASSIVE
Immune serum (Ab’s)
Relative effectiveness ACTIVE
Small
Relative effectiveness PASSIVE
Large
Relative effective dosage
required ACTIVE
Small
Relative effective dosage
required PASSIVE
Large