HAEMOTOLOGY Flashcards
What are the 3 major components of the immune systems
- receptors and defence molecules
- immune cells
- specialised organs and tissues
define the two immune systems
- innate
inborn defence mechanisms that are found in all classes of animals - Adaptive
acquired immune defences that are unique to vertebrates and generated (memory)
what are leukocytes
white blood cells (specialised immune cells)
What are the two subdivisions of identification based on appearance and what they include
- Agranular (mononuclear cells)
- T cell, B cell and NK cells are LYMPHOCYTES
- Monocytes - Granular
- Basophil, Eosinophil and Neutrophil
What are the two subdivisions of identification based on immune systems and what they include
Innate cells:
- basophil, eosinophil, neutrophil
- monocyte and NK cells
Adaptive cells:
- T cells
- B cells
compare and contrast innate and adaptive cells
innate:
- many types of recognition receptors on each cell
- each receptor coded for by a single gene
- cells are present from birth
- recognise mainly microbial cells (not self)
Adaptive:
- one type recognition each cell (unique)
- receptors assembled from multiple gene fragments (shugfling)
- formed after birth
- recognise all antigens (non and self)
What are haematopoietic stem cells
specialise into leukocytes - found in bone marrow
what types of cells do haematopoietic stem cells give rise to?
- Lymphoid progenitor cells
- myeloid progenitor cells
what cells do Lymphoid progenitor cells give rise to
T cells, B cells and NK cells
(lymphocytes)
what cells do myeloid progenitor cells give rise to
myeloid cells:
- monocytes
- basophils
- eosinophil
- neutrophil
final destination of granulocytes
move from blood into tissues (includes Neutrophil, eosinophil, basophils)
- also includes mast cells but unknown where they originate from
final destination of monocytes and NK cells
monocytes start in blood, move to tissues and mature to become macrophages or denritic cells
NK cells start in blood, move to tissues and form granules
functions of the innate immune cells
- phagocytosis -monocytes, basophils, neutrophils, Dendritic cells
- granule release - nuetrophils, basophils, eosinophils, mast cells, NK cells
- target cell killing - NK cells
- Triggering inflammation - macrophages
- Antigen presentation - macrophages + dendritic cells
monocytes vs macrophages
both white blood cells
- monocytes are blood defence
- macrophages are tissue defence
monocyte becomes macrophage in tissues
- macrophages engulf pathogens via phagocytosis and pinocystosis and destroy them with toxic vesicles
what are neutrophils and what’s special about them
- a white blood cell -> a granulocyte, a phagocyte
- highly efficient at engulfing and killing pathogens but only short lived (72hrs)
- make up majority of white blood cells
how do neutrophils work
- recruted to infected tissues
- hunt down microbes as they are drawn to molecules that bacteria release
- ingest cells and release enzymes to break down