host response to periodontal bacteria Flashcards
How do bacteria induce damage to periodontal tissues?
1) Bacteria attach and colonize the gingival crevice
2) Bacteria release substances that directly damage host cells
3) Bacteria activate the host’s own inflammatory and immune systems
what are the 4 Major microbial virulence factors?
Ability to invade periodontal epithelium
Direct cytotoxic effects of bacterial metabolic waste products
Damaging bacterial enzymes
Immunostimulatory molecules
what were the 2 Damaging bacterial enzymes listed as microbial virulence factors?
Leukotoxin (from A. a., kills leukocytes)
Gingipains (Arg-specific proteases from P. g.)
give some examples of immunostimulatory molecules produced by microbes
1) LPS & Lipoteichoic acids from Gram-positive bacteria
2) Gingipains (Arg-specific protease)
3) Formylpeptides
4) Other surface antigens
what are the Mechanisms of periodontal defense?
Prevention of bacterial entry
Innate immune responses
Acquired (adaptive) immune responses
Shedding of epithelial cells into the oral cavity inhibits what?
bacterial colonization of mucosa
in healthy individuals, there is a ________ fluid flow into the gingival crevice
positive
what causes increased permeability in the periodontal capillaries?
Inflammation
what effects does the Complement system (of the innate immune system) produce?
Induces bacterial lysis
Promotes phagocyte recruitment (chemotaxis)
Helps activate mast cells, which increases vascular permeability
what are defensins? what are they produced by?
anti-microbial peptides produced by the oral epithelium
_____ and _____ are universal signals of infection that help recruit inflammatory cells
IL-1ß and TNF-α
_____ (a cytokine) attracts neutrophils in the early stages of infection
IL-8
the Phagocytic function of neutrophils (PMNs) and macrophages are part of what type of immune response?
innate immune response
what are the “hallmarks” of adaptive immunity?
Ag recognition, immune memory, and clonal expansion
what category of molecules plays a major role in induction of innate immune response?
Toll-like receptors (TLRs)
what types of molecules can toll-like receptors recognize?
LPS, lipoteichoic acid and flagellae
TLR’s are expressed by what types of cells?
Expressed by all cells, including epithelial cells, PMNs, monocytes and macrophages
what do TLR’s signal for cells to do?
signal for cells to produce cytokines, chemokines, antimicrobial peptides, nitric oxide and eicosanoids
secretory IgA, lactoferrin, lysozymes and agglutinin are all released from what oral structure?
salivary glands
LPS (an endotoxin) can cause the stimulation of _______
prostaglandin
LPS induces ____
TNF-α
what effect do membrane attack complexes have?
they punch holes in the cell membrane of microbes
Pro-inflammatory activity is mediated by which cytokines?
IL-1β, TNF-α
Chemotactic (recruitment of neutrophil) activity is mediated by what cytokine?
IL-8
Prostaglandins are derived from ____________
arachidonic acid
what cell type produces prostaglandins?
Produced by activated macrophages and other cells