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GI Mucosal Immunology Flashcards

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What does the upper GI tract consist of?

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Oesophagus

Stomach

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What does the lower GI tract consist of?

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Small intestine

Large intestine

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In basic terms, what are the 2 kinds of bacteria found in the GI tract?

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Commensal bacteria

Pathogenic bacteria

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What are some examples of challenges of antigen processing in the GI tract?

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Develop self-tolerance

Develop exogenous tolerance

Develop an effective immune response

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What is self-tolerance?

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Non-responsiveness of the immune system to self-antigens

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What is exogenous tolerance?

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Non-responsiveness of the immune systemto newly encountered environmental antigens that are harmless

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What are examples of different facets to normal antigen processing in the GI tract?

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Epithelial layer

Mucus layer

Innate immune response

Antigen presenting cells

Tolerance versus activated of adaptive immune response (T cell)

Soluble mediators of immunity

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How does the epithelial layer provide protection?

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Specialised tight junctions that regulate permeability

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How does the mucus layer provide protection?

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Physical barrier keeping microbes from host cells

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What are examples of antigen presenting cels?

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Dendritic cells

Macrophages

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What are examples of soluble mediators of immunity?

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Chemokines and cytokines

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12
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What are the 2 different parts of the immune system?

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Innate immune system

Adaptive immune system

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What kind of immune cells are innate?

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Granulocyte (neutrophil, eosinophil, basophil)

Mast cell

Monocyte

Dendritic cell

Macrophage

Natural killer cell

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What kind of immune cells are adaptive?

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CD4+ T cell (memory)

CD8+ T cell (memory)

B cell (memory), which become plasma cells that produce antibodies

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Where do all cells of the immune system originate from?

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Haematopoitic stem cell which comes from bone marrow

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What are the 2 things that a haematopoietic stem cell can differentiate into?

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Myeloid progenitor cell

Lymphoid progenitor cell

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What does myeloid progenitor cell differentiate into?

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RBC

Platelet

All cells of innate immune system (except natural killer cells)

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What do lymphoid progenitor cells differentiate into?

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All adaptive immune system cells

Natural killer cells

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19
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Which immune system causes inflammation?

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Innate immune system

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What is a key determinant of T cell differentiation?

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The cytokine milieu

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How do cytokines vary in terms of inflammation?

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Some are pro-inflammatory and some are anti-inflammatory

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What is a T cell called before it has differentiated into its subtype?

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Naive T cell

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23
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What are peyer’s patches?

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Small masses of lymphatic tissue found throughout the ileum region of the small intestine

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What do peyer’s patches allow?

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Sufficient sampling of particulate antigens and delivery to antigen presenting cells

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What is a macrophage?

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Type of phagocyte which is responsible for detecting, engulfing and destroying pathogens and apoptotic cells

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What is the first line of defence system in the gut?

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Macrophages

27
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What are functions of macrophages?

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Sampling of particulate antigens

Phagocytic (ingests harmful pathogens or dying/dead cells)

Secrete cytokines (such as IL-10 required for the survival of FoxP3 and Treg cells)

Antigen presenting cells to modulate adaptive immune response

28
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Where are dendritic cells found in the GI tract?

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Lamina propria and peyer’s patches

29
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Why are dendritic cells important for mucosal immune responses?

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Efficient sampling of antigen

Different dendritic cell subsets give rise to distinct T cell responses (such as tolerance vs immunity)

Different subsets distinguished by cell markers)

Present antigen to naive T cell

30
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What to dendritic cells do after they have sampled gut bacteria and gut antigens?

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Migrate to major lymph nodes

31
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What do dendritic cells undergo maturation into?

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Potent antigen presenting cells (APC)

32
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What 3 signals determine T cell response from an antigen presenting cell?

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MHC/peptide-TCR

CD80-CD28

Cytokine

33
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Which of MHC/peptide-TCR is on the antigen presenting cell and naive T cell?

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MHC on antigen presenting cell

Peptide-TCR on naive T cell

34
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Which of CD80/CD28 is on antigen presenting cell and naive T cell?

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CD80 on antigen presenting cell

CD28 on naive T cell

35
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What is the innate immune system based on?

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Recognition of pathogens associated molecular patterns (PAMPS/MAMPS)

36
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What T cell is required for clearance of intracellular pathogens?

37
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What T cell is required for maintaining the immune homeostasis and tolerance?

38
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What are 2 examples of what happens when the normal immune homeostasis goes wrong?

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Coeliac disease

39
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What is inflammatory bowel disease?

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Chronic, relapsing, remitting inflammation of the GI tract

40
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What are the 2 main examples of IBD?

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Crohn’s disease

Ulcerative colitis

41
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What is the difference between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis?

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Differ in type and location of inflammation

42
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What does the pathogenesis of IBD involve?

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Genome

Microbiome

Environment

Other unknown factors

43
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What is the innate immune systems involvement in IBD?

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Dysfunctional innate receptor handling of bacteria

Breakdown of immune tolerance

ILCs

44
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What is the adaptive immune systems involvement in IBD?

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Traditionally Th1 versus Th2 paradigm, many other lymphocyte populations are important (such as Th17, regulatory T cells, B cells)

45
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What are different treatment strategies for IBD?

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Target lymphocytes directly

Target single cytokines

Target migration of immune cells to GI mucosa

Target multiple cytokines

Target cytokine intracellular signalling pathways

Modulation of microbiota

46
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What does anti-TNF biologics involve?

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Inhibition of a single cytokine

47
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What is used to target migration of immune cells to GI mucosa?

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Vedolizumab

48
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What are integrins?

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Transmembrane proteins used to lymphocyte trafficking and cell adhesion

49
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What drug is used for multi-cytokine blockage?

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Ustekinumab

50
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What does multi-cytokine blockage (Ustekinumab) target?

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Towards p40 subunit of IL-12 and IL-23

51
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What does IL-12 control?

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Proinflammatory Th1 cytotoxic T cell response

52
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What does IL-23 control?

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Pro-inflammatory Th17 axis

53
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What drug is used for multi-cytokine blockage through inhibition of intracellular signalling?

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Tofacitnib

54
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How does multi-cytokine blockage through inhibition of intracellular signalling with Tofacitnib work?

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Pan JAK inhibitor (JAK1 and JAK3)

55
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What interleukins are inhibited by Tofacitnib?

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IL2

IL6

IL7

IL9

IL12

IL15

IL21

IL23

IFN

56
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What do initial studies suggest about faecal transmission (FMT) and IBD?

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Is likely effective in ulcerative colitis

57
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What is coeliac disease?

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Common digestive condition where the small intestine becomes inflamed and unable to absorb nutrients

58
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What does coeliac disease cause intolerance to?

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Dietary gluten in wheat and similar proteins

59
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What are symptoms of coeliac disease?

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Malabsorption causing failure to thrive as a child

Iron deficiency anaemia

Fatigue

GI symptoms such as loose stool, abdominal pain or asymptomatic

60
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What causes genetic susceptibility to coeliac disease?

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HLA-DQ2/8 on antigen presenting cell

61
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What does HLA stand for?

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Human leukocyte antigen

62
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What does human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allow?

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Immune cells to identify self and non-self antigens

63
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What are consequences of coeliac disease for the gut?

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Loss of villi (loss of absorptive capacity)

Increase in intra-epithelial lymphocytes

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