Immune System Flashcards
Already ready to fight
Innate
Gets better at fighting over time
Adaptive
Skin better at keeping pathogens out
Innate defenses
Macrorgansims takes up space on skin by pathogenic flora
Innate defenses
Getting rid of it Hurts us
Microbiome
Present in wet entries to our body
Mucosa
Still have a layer of epidermis that acts as a physical wall
Additional specialized defenses
Digest pathogen on food
Avoid of stomach acid
Degrade pathogenic cells
Digestive enzymes
Forms a sticky trap for microorganisms in our lungs and digestive tract
Mucin
Second line of innate defenses guards against pathogens that enter deeper tissue
Primary static defenses
Phagocytosis
Macrophages
Neutrophil
Dendritic cell
After ingesting the offending pathogen
Phagosome
Containing cuasic enzymes bind with the vesicle containing the pathogen forming a phagonlusome
Lysosome
Blocking the lysosome
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Waiting in tissue like skin and the digestive tract to ingest and destroy invaders
Macrophages
Call for backup from neutrophils in the blood
Cytokines
Degranulate release toxic granules on and around the pathogen
Neutrophils phagocytosis
Non specific methods
Damage other tissue
Present in surface tissue and can phagocytose
Dendritic cells
Best at antigen presentation through their
MHC-2
Involved in inflammatory response
Innate defense
Mast cells have bags of
Histamines
Very similar to mast cells
Basophils
Injured cells release chemical signal
Pro inflammatory cytokines
Release histamine
Mast cells
Histamine encourages
Vasodilation
Increase vascular permeability
Histamine
Encourages recruitment of more leukocytes
Histamine
Eat pathogens and tease cytokines calling for assistance
Macrophages
Show how sn aid a fight
Neutrophils
Made up of cell debris and neutrophils that have litterbugs eaten themselves to death
Plus
Pathogens can’t handle wide swings In temp and Turk tip tempt o kill them enough
Fever
Cel easily survive this range
Fever
Part of innate defenses
Nk
Macrophages, dendritic cell, B cells take chunks of the pathogen and attach it to there cell membrane
Major histocompatibility complex-2
Also called paPc
B cells
Protein takes up exogenous antigens
Major histocompatibilty complex
Proteins that are captured floating around and presents them on surfaces
Exogenous antigens
Destroy pathogens as well as inflammation and fever
Neutrophils and macrophages
Immune can fight pathogens they have seen before
Adaptive response
Portions of a pathogen that were destroyed after phagocytosis are attached to the Mhc-2 on surface of -
Professional antigen presenting cells
B cells produce
Unique antibodies
Naive B cells produce a few antibodies and attach them to their cell surface
Membrane bound antibodies
Rights know you ha e the means to protect your body against a new artificial Virus
From the antibodies your body already has
B cells in lymph nodes bump
Into pathogen they have a. Small chance there _ can bind with pathogens surface antigens
B cell receptor
Once a B cell is activated
No longer naive
It phagocytosis the pathogen and
Attaches the antigen to its own mhc-2
Long term immunological memory of previyos pathogens
Memory B cell
Antibody factories for this current round of infection
Plasma cell
Antibodies produced by plasma cells travel through ecf and blood looking for
More of that pathogen antigen to bind
In thymus T cells differentiate into 2 types
Helper T cells
Cytotoxic T cells(killer)
T cells are lymphocytes and have a protein on their surface called
T cell receptor
Huge amount of variety in there shape and can only bind to a small percentage of antigens
TCR
When a Particular TCR is able to bind to an paPc, Mhc-2
Helper T cell is activated
Go out and turn into an infection
Effector helper T cell
Stored and enable a fast response during next infection
Memory helper T cells
Bind to an antigen is activated
Ensures resources are directed to the most efficient cells
Only TCR
Perform two major actions
Helper effector T cells
Constantly being created on every cell of the body
Proteins
DNA or rna and the cells own genetic machinery starts to express the viral information
Creates more virus protein Peices
Viral infections
Broken genes create odd new proteins
Cancerous cells
Constantly presenting any protein in any cell
Mhc-1
The immune system checks these proteins aa weld or not slef
When a protein is aberrant the immune system targets for destruction
Mhc-1
Produce normal proteins and frequently scooped up by Mhc-1
Should not be destroyed
Non self Protoens
Mhc-1 alerts that something is wrong
Cyctoxic T cells and nk cells don’t bind with mhc-2
Attach to Mhc-1
NKattach to 2 thongs
glycoproteins the stimulate the NK cell to kill suspect cell
Activating ligands
NK cell attach to 2 things
doesn’t care if it presenting a normal virus or not
MHC-1 complexes
they vote to kill you or not
predisposed to kill
natural killer
A blend of adaptive an d innate, anotbodies bout to a pathogen increase the rate of destruction by NK cells
Antibody
Dependant
Cell-mediated
Cytotoxicity