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what are the types of immunity?

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active and passive

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what is active immunity?

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Protection by adaptive immune response 
Individual’s immune system is activated against an antigen 
Time to develop
Immunological memory
Immunity develops over weeks
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what is passive immunity?

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Transfer of antibodies
Immediate immunity
Does not last as no memory
Antibodies degrade overtime

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what is natural passive immunity?

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Mother to foetus through placenta or milk

Weeks of months of protection which own immune system develops

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what is artificial passive immunity?

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Receiving antibodies in antiserum from another organism
Antiserum contains specific antibodies
Serum is the fluid of blood
Useful if death will occur before the immune system kicks in
Can suppress active immunity when it is harmful
Snake bite

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what is natural active immunity?

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Immunological memory from an infection

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what is artificial active immunity? types?

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Administration of antigens to induce the active immune response
Vaccination
Vaccine is altered or weakened or killed or inactivated
Boosters needed to activate a stronger secondary response
- live attenuated vaccines
- inactivated vaccines
- subunit vaccines

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what are live attenuated vaccines? advantages, disadvantages

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Weakened living microbe through repeated culturing
Advantage: long lasting as a strong immune response was induced, producing many antibodies
Disadvantage: not safe for people with weak immune systems, cross placenta in pregnant woman and infect baby

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what are inactivated vaccines? advantages, diadvantages

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Aka killed vaccines
Inactivated by heat, chemicals, radiation
advantages: result in production of many different antibodies, safe for all
disadvantages: stimulate a weak response so require a booster

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what are subunit vaccines? advantages, disadvantages

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Contain parts of microbes
Advantages: safe, stable, easier to store
disadvantages: need boosters to be more powerful

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what is herd immunity?

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For immunisation to be effective, a sufficient number of people need to be vaccinated
Essential for those who cannot be vaccinated

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what is the allergic reaction? how dangerous? what happens? what antibody is involved?

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Allergic reaction
Rapid overreaction to antigens that are harmless (allergens)
Pollen
Mild to life-threatening
Pollen allergy or hay fever is a reaction to antigens on pollen
Release of histamine from mast cells
Antibody immunoglobulin E (IgE) is produced by plasma cells
IgE binds to mast cells and when allergen binds across two antibodies (bridging the gap) mast cell releases histamine

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what does the release of histamine cause?

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Blood vessel dilation
Increase of blood vessel permeability
Contraction of muscles in air ways
Fluid-secreting cells- teary eyes, runny nose which expel antigens

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what are autoimmune diseases?

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Adaptive immune system response directed against self-antigens
T cells attack tissues directly
B cells work indirectly, relating antibodies

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what are the types of autoimmune disease?

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Organ-specific are located in a localised area

Generalised autoimmune diseases are located throughout the body

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autoimmune haemolytic anemia

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Type II hypersensitivity because antibodies are directed against self-antigens on red-blood cells

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rheumatoid arthritis

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Type III because involved deposition of antigen-antibody immune complexes in tissue which results in inflammation and damage
Also thought to be type IV as T cells attack antigens in joints

18
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type 1 diabetes

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T cells attack and destroy beta cells in the pancreas
Beta cells make insulin which regulates glucose levels
Must inject insulin to maintain glucose balance
Mediated by T cells so Type IV

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multiple sclerosis

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Myelin sheath is affected
Condition of signals is impaired
Helper and cytotoxic T cells are involved as well as plasma cells producing antibodies and target proteins and lipids in myelin sheath
Oligodendrocytes (produce myelin sheath) are damaged and undergo apoptosis as a result
Macrophages also destroy oligodendrocytes
Type IV
Damage eventually occurs to axons
Suppressors of inflammation and immuneosupressants are used

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what is immunodeficiency? what are types?

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Immune system cannot adequately respond to antigens or fails to react at all
types: primary and secondary
Primary is when you are born with it
Secondary is squired, can be temporary or permanent eg. AIDS which becomes HIV

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what Is HIV? what does it do? what results?

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HIV is a retrovirus where virus DNA is inserted into cell DNA so that it produced viruses
Immune system responds but some copies of the virus survive
HIV has a high mutation rate which helps it stay ahead of the immune system
Impairs the immune system by infecting T helper cells
AIDS develops when the immune system is impaired
AIDS puts people are risk of other disease which cause death

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how is HIV transmitted?

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Present in body fluids of infected people

Transmitted through unprotected sex, sharing needles, to a foetus through placenta

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HIV treatment

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Antiretroviral therapy (combination of medications to stop AIDs developing):
Blocking binding of HIV to cells
Blocking the transcription of DNA by virus
Blocking the enzymes that integrate the DNA

24
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what is cancer? how can it be caused?

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Abnormal cell that multiples
Growth is caused by changed to genes that control growth and a resistance to apoptosis
Carcinogens damage cell DNA
Can be caused by viruses

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what are tumours? what are the types? metastasis?

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Clump of abnormal cells
Benign tumours are not cancerous as they don’t spread
Malignant tumours cause cancer as they invade
Metastasis occurs when cells break from tumours and travel in blood or lymph to other parts

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what are the typical cancer treatments?

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Chemotherapy: drugs that are cytotoxic to cells that divide rapidly. Not specific enough not to target other quickly dividing cells
Radiation therapy: kills cells by damaging DNA, directed at cancerous cells but gets others
Surgery: remove solid tumours but harms the body and some can be left

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how does the immune system respond to cancer?

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Weakened immune systems are more likely to have cancer
Express defective MHC-I markers so that T cell cannot detect cancer cells, producing immunosuppressive cytokines, or by releasing enzymes that suppress T cell responses

28
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what are the features of cancer immunotherapy?

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Non-specific: stimulates immune system eg. Injecting cytokines
Specific: act on cancer cells by stimulating the adaptive immune response against them eg. Cancer vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapy

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what do cancer vaccines do? what are the types?

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Stimulate the immune system to attack cancer cells
Proteins from cancer cells may be injected to stimulate a response
Sometimes cells are harvested, exposed to these antigens and injected to produce a immune response

  • preventative cancer vaccines, therapeutic cancer vaccines, personalised cancer vaccines
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what are preventative cancer vaccines?

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Directed against cancers that cause cancer eg HPV

Introduce specific viral antigens creating a response that will lead to memory

31
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what are therapeutic cancer vaccines?

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Have cancer

Made up of antigens for that cancer and boost immunity by increasing its ability to destroy cancer cells

32
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what are personalised cancer vaccines?

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Have cancer
Tumour cells that have been altered to make them more obvious to the immune system
Present antigen from tumour to the patient’s dendritic cells
Activated dendritic cells are injected back

33
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what is monoclinal antibody therapy?

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Clone B cells to produce many antibodies in culture
Target specific antigens
Target cells of the immune system and direct the immune response in a way that helps destroy tumour cells

34
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production of monoclonal antibodies?

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Antigens are injected into mice
Antibodies are made by B cells, these B cells are then isolated to the spleen of mice
B cells are fused with myeloma cells which are an immortal cell line (forms hybridoma)
Hybridoma is more stable in a tissue culture and produced antibodies which are harvested

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humanised monoclonal antibodies

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Mice produced antibodies are detected as foreign and an immune response is mounted against them
A memory is made and the next time they are injected they are destroyed fast
Some parts have been replaced with human components using recombinant DNA techniques

36
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conjugated mAbs

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Been attached to a chemotherapy drug, toxin or radioactive particle
Deliver treatment to cancer cells
Limits toxic affects on surrounding cells

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Bi-specific mAbs

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Artificially produced using recombinant DNA technology
Activate immune system and target cancer cells
Two binding sites
Binds to T cell proteins and antigen identifying cancer cells and delivering them to the immune system

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