Innate Immunity Flashcards
What is innate immunity?
Natural barriers (physical and biochemical) and inflammation
Surface barriers harbour what?
Natural flora (group of microorganisms) that protect against pathogens
What’s the role of the physical and biochemical barrier in innate immunity?
It’s the first line of defence at the body surface, in place at birth to prevent damage by substance from environment and thwart infections by pathogenic microorganisms
What is the second line of defence?
Inflammatory response
What is the role inflammation response?
Inflammatory response is activated to protect against further injury, prevent infection of injured tissues and promote healing
What is adaptive (acquired or specific) immunity?
3rd line of defence
Slower
More specific process
Targets particular invading microorganisms and eradicate them
Body develop memory for rapid response at future exposure to the same organism
What is the timing of the first line of defence!
Constant
What is the specificity of immunity in first line of defence?
Broadly specific
What are the cells involved in first line of defence?
Epithelial cells and microbiome
What type of memory occurs in first line of defence in innate immunity
No memory involved
What are the active molecules in innate immunity first line of defence?
Defensins,
cathelicidins,
collectins,
lactoferins,
bacteria toxins
Protection in the first line of defence in innate immunity involves what?
- Anatomical barriers( skin and mucus membranes
- Cells and secretory molecules ( lysozymes, low pH of stomach and urine)
- Ciliary activity
Inflammatory response occur as what?
Second line defence response to tissue injury or infection
What type of response do we have in 2nd line defence of innate immunity?
Immediate response
What type of specificity of response do we have in 2nd line defence of innate immunity?
Broadly specific
What cells are involved in the 2nd line defence of innate immunity?
Mast cells
Granulocytes- ( neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils)
Monocytes/macrophages
Natural killer cells (NK)
Platelets
Endothelial cells
What is the type of memory in 2nd line of defence in innate immunity?
No memory
What are the active molecules in 2nd line defence of the innate immunity?
Compliments
Clotting factors
Kinnins
Cytokines
What is the process involved in 2nd line defence of innate immunity?
- Vascular response
- Cellular component( mast cells, neutrophils, macrophages)
- Secretory molecules or cytokines
- Activated plasma protein system
What are the 3 lines of human defence from infections and injury
- Innate immunity (natural barrier)
- inflammatory response and
- adaptive(acquired) immunity
What are the physical barriers in innate immunity?
Skin and mucus membranes
List the antibacterial peptide that provide biochemical barriers against pathogens in mucus secretions, perspiration, saliva, tears and other secretions
Cathelicidin
Defensin
Collectins
Mannose binding lectins
What are the functions of commensal and mutualistics organisms that colonize mucus membrane and skin or what are functions of microbiomes
Release chemicals that facilitate immune response
Prevent colonization by pathogens
Facilitate digestion in GI tract
What are the characteristics of inflammatory response
It’s the 2nd line of defence
It’s rapid and non specific
It can only occur in the vascularized tissue
Where does inflammatory response occur?
Vascularized tissues only
What are the macroscopic hall mark of inflammatory response
Redness
Swelling
Heat
Pain
Loss of function of the inflamed tissue
What are the microscopic hallmarks of inflammatory response?
Vasodilation
Increased capillary permeability
Accumulation of fluid and cells at inflammation site
What are the 3 key plasma protein systems involved in inflammation
Complement system
Clotting system
Kinin system
What protein system is bradykinin found
Kinin system
What’s the role of bradykinin in inflammation
Vascular permeability, smooth muscle contractions and pain
What are the types of cells involved in inflammatory process
Mast cells, endothelial cells, platelet, phagocytes(neutrophils, eosinophils, monocytes/macrophages, dendritic cells) natural killer cells and lymphocytes
List the cytokines(biochemical mediators in innate immunity
Chemokines
Interleukins
Interferons
Other molecules
What’s the function of interleukin 10?
To down regulate inflammatory response
What’s the most important activator of inflammatory response is what?
Mast cells
What’s the function of histamine in inflammatory process?
Causes capillary dilation and retraction of endothelial cells lining capillaries causing increased vascular permeability
What is interstitial space?
Free and opened space between tissue endothelial calls and vasculatures
What is tissue endothelial cells
Walls and intercellular space and content e.g nucleus
When mast cells are triggered by damaged endothelial cells or endotoxins what are the immune cytokines released?
Histamine
Leucotrienes
Prostaglandins
Chemotatic factors (positive chemotaxis)
TNF (alpha), interleukins (IL, 4, 5, 6, 13)
What are the 2 major area in mast cell reaction!
Degranulation and synthesis
Degranulation of mast cell produce 3 reactions
- Histamine for vascular effect
- Cytokines- TNF alpha and interleukim 4, 5, 6, 13 for inflammation
- Chemotatic factors to attract neutrophils and eosinophils to start phagocytosis
What is the function of histamine in innate immunity
- Vasodilation, by rapid constriction of smooth muscles, and dilation of post capillary venules causing increase blood flow to micro circulation
- Increase vascular permeability
Increase adherence of leukocytes to endothelium - Affect binding sites H1 and H2 on target cell surface
What’s the function of chemotatic factors in Degranulation of mast cells
Attract neutrophils and eosinophils to start phagocytosis process
What is the function of cytokines in mast cell Degranulation?
Cytokines - TNF alpha and IL 4, 5, 6, 13 Tiggers overall inflammation process. Call for phagocytize cells and plasma to manage pathogen and for healing
Mast cell synthesis involves what?
Damaged epithelial or tissues has phospholipid on surface which need to be broken down for repair by enzyme - phospholypase A2 which into breaks down arachidonic acid and platelet activating factors.
Arachidonic acid is broken down into 2 enzymes Lopo- oxygenase and cyclo oxygenase. Cyclo-oxygenase produce leukotrienes which has vascular effects and lipooxigynase produce prostaglandin which has vascular effect and pain
Arachidonic acid is broke down into 2 enzymes what are they?
Lopo- oxygenase (LPO) and cyclooxygenase (COX1 or COX2)
In mast cell synthesis, Phospholipase A2 breakdown phospholipid to what?
Arachidonic acid and platelet activating factors
What is the role of platelet activating factor in mast cell synthesis?
1 Vascular effects- Increase vascular permeability by relaxing smooth muscles and creating gaps in the cells lining the internal vasculature
2 platelet activation for clotting
Cyclooxygenase breaks arachidonic acid into what? And what’s the function of the product?
Prostaglandin
Function:
Contribute to vascular permeability
Pain
Neutrophil chemotaxis
Lipooxygenase breakdown arachidonic acid into what? And what is the function of the product?
Leukotrienes
Function
Vascular effect- leukotrienes impact smooth muscles, and increase vascular permeability by contracting the endothelial cells in similar way to platelet activating factors and histamines
Corticosteroids work by what?
Inhibiting phospholipase
NSAIDs mechanism of action is what?
Inhibits COX from producing prostaglandin
Mast cell histamines attach to what receptors!
H1 rectepor or H2 receptor
What is inflammation?
Reaction to tissue damage or invasion by microorganisms
What is the function of inflammation?
To manage invading organisms, clean up debris and initiate healing
What are the 4 characteristics of inflammation?
- It occur in tissues with good blood supply
- Vascular response(humoral response)
- Activated rapidly within seconds of cellular damage
- Include cellular and chemical reactions at vascular and interstitial levels.
It is non specific and antibodies are not involved at the onset
H1 rector activate what?
Smooth muscles cells and epithelial cells
What is the effect of Binding of Histamine to H1 receptor on smooth muscles and endothelial cells?
Contraction or vasodilation
Contraction ( retraction at endothelial junctions)
What is the effect of Histamine binding to H1 receptors on neutrophil/mast cells?
Neutrophils = Increase chemotaxis Mast cells = prostaglandin synthesis
Binding of Histamine to H1 receptor causes what
Cell activation of target cells - smooth muscle cell endothelial cell, neutrophil and mast cell.
Binding of Histamine to H2 receptor causes what?
Cell deactivation resulting in decrease leukocytes, eosinophil, neutrophil and mast cell
What is the effect of histamine binding to H2
Decrease lymphocyte and eosinophils activity
Decrease neutrophil chemotaxis
Decreased mast cell Degranulation
H1 receptor blockers/antagonist are?
Antihistamines used for allergic immune reactions
H2 receptor blockers/antagonist examples are
Famotidine (Pepcid)
Ranitidine (Zantac)
They plug H2 receptor causing decrease in gastric acid in stomach lining.
They are used to treat acid reflux and peptic ulcer
What we the plasma protein systems in inflammatory response
Complement system
Clotting system
Kinin system
True or false: mast cell reactions takes place same time as plasma protein system reactions
True
What’s the other name for Factor XII
Hageman factor
In the Kinin system, vascular endothelial damage activate what?
Hageman factor (factor XIIa which triggers clotting and Kinin system
What’s function of prekallikrein also known as factor XIIa
Activate kinin system
Prekallikrein (Factor XIIa) is used to produce what?
Kallikrien and kininogen
Kininogen is a precursor for what?
Bradykinin
What is the function of bradykinin
- Vasodilation
- Smooth muscle contraction and increase permeability
- Act with prostaglandins to induce pain
Clotting system is triggered by what?
Tissue injury/ infection
Collagen
Proteinase
Kallikrein
Plasmin
Bacterial endotoxins
What is the purpose of clotting cascade
Plug formation and to stop bleeding
Trap microorganisms and prevent spread
Framework to form repair and healing
In the clotting system of inflammatory response the fibrinopeptide do what?
Fibeinopeptides are Chemotatic, migration of neutrophils and
Increase vessel permeability
What is the function of fibrinogen in the inflammatory response?
1 Produce fibrin for blood clot
2. Release fibrinopeptides which cause migration of leukocytes(neutrophils) and increase permeability
Fibrinogen can enhance bradykinin formed from Kinin system, true or false
True
What are the 2 pathways is clotting cascade?
Intrinsic and extrinsic pathways
The extrinsic pathway is triggered by what?
Damage to the endothelial cells in the blood vessels triggers Tissue factor(TF) thromboplastin - extrinsic pathway and trigger factor VIIa
What triggers the intrinsic pathway?
Damage to the full vessel triggers contact activation( intrinsic pathway) and triggers Hageman factor (factor XII to XIIa or prekallikrein)
Both intrinsic and extrinsic pathway trigger what?
Both pathways converge at Factor Xa which is activated in to fibrin that polymerizes into fibrin clot