Exam II Flashcards
Provides the initial defense against infection:
Innate immunity
List the mechanisms of the innate immune systems that function function to prevent infections:
List the mechanisms of the innate immune system that function to eliminate microbes:
Epithelial barriers
Phagocytes, NK cells, complement system
Immune function that develops later and is mediated by lymphocytes and their products:
Adaptive immunity
When B lymphocytes secrete antibodies that block infections and eliminate extracellular micrcobes:
Humoral immunity
When T lymphocytes eradicate intracellular microbes:
Cell-mediated immunity
In humoral immunity ______ secrete antibodies that blocked infections and eliminate _____
B lymphocytes; extracellular microbes
In cell-medicated immunity, ____ eradicate _____
T lymphocytes; intracellular microbes
In cell-mediated immunity, ____ eliminate phagocytosed (ingested) microbes:
Helper T cells
In cell-mediated immunity, _______ kill infected cells & eliminated reservoirs of infection:
Cytotoxic T cells
When lymphocyte clones with diverse receptors arise in primary lymphoid organs:
Clonal selection
A population of lymphocytes with identical antigen receptors (same specificity); all derived from same precursor cell:
Clone
Clones of mature lymphocytes specific for many antigens enter:
Lymphoid tissue
Antigen-specific clones are activated by:
Antigens
What does it mean when antigen-specific clones are “activated” by antigens
They are selected for
When antigen-specific clones are selected for/activated by antigen, this stimulates:
Proliferation & differentiation of that clone
After proliferation & differentiation of the clone (during clonal selection) what occurs?
Antigen-specific immune response
What do we mean by antigen-specific immune response occurring?
Antibodies are generated
Mediators of humoral immunity:
B lymphocytes
Mediators of cell-mediated immunity:
T lymphocytes
Mediators of innate immunity:
Natural killer cells
Capture antigens for display to lymphocytes:
Antigen-presenting cells (APCs)
List the lymphocytes that function in specific recognition of antigens:
B-lymphocytes
T-lymphocytes
NK cells
List the antigen-presenting cells:
Dendritic cells
Macrophages
B-lymphocytes
Primary activator on naive T cells:
Dendritic cells
Responsible for the effector phase of cell-mediated immunity:
Macrophages
Responsible for antigen presentation to helper T cells in humoral (antibody) immune response:
B-lymphocytes
Effector cells function in the:
elimination of antigens
List the effector cells of the immune system:
T-lypmhocytes
Macrophages (& monocytes)
Granulocytes
What do T-lymphocyts, Macrophages (& monocytes) & granulocytes all have in common?
Function to eliminate antigens
What are the three types of receptors that macrophages contain?
- C3b
- PAMP
- Fc
List the two types of granulocytes that function in the elimination of antigens (effector cells):
- Neutrophils
- Eosinophils
In the process of capture and presentation of antigens, list the steps immature dendritic cells go through:
- Immature dendritic cells in the epithelium capture microbrial antigens
- They become activated
- They leave the epithelium
Antigens by dendritic cells from the _____ & taken to the _____ (where the immune response is initiated)
Site of infection; lymph node