Innate Immunity Flashcards
What are the professional phagocytes?
Monocytes
Macrophages
Granulocytes
Dendritic cells
How long does the innate immune response take to activate?
0-4 hours
When the macrophage engulfs the pathogen, what is the pathogen encased in?
Phagosome
What does the phagosome fuse with?
Lysosome
What is inside the lysosome?
Chemicals and enzymes
What is a monocyte?
Immature macrophages
When monocytes become macrophages, where do they reside?
Tissue
What do you call the fraction of the pathogen which macrophages display in their cell surface?
Antigen
What do the macrophages displaying a pathogenic antigen on surface display it to?
mhc2 complex
What is the difference between MHC1 and MHC2?
MHC1 = cells with a nucleus and express as antigen on the MHC1
MHC2 = antibody response
What is the ,last abundant WBC?
Neutrophils
Compare neutrophil and macrophage
Neutrophils are not APC, just eat pathogen
What do NKC do?
Phagocytose cells
Do the NKC use the roll-stop-exit method?
Yes
What do the NKC secrete?
Perforin