Innate Immunity Flashcards

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adaptive response

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  • soluble receptors: antibodies

- cell receptors- B/T cells

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Innate response

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  • soluble: complement, pentraxins, collecting, fictions

- cell receptors: TLR, Nod-like etc

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3
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immunity requires

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recognition and elimination- containment

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4
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most of the mechanisms against infectious agents

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are provided by innate immune system

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5
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what recognise PAMPs

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Pattern Recognition receptors

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6
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innate responses are

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activated within hours of contact, but not signify increased by previous exposure

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7
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pathogens are capable of

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-colonising the cytoplasm, intracellular vesicles, intersistital spaces, blood, lymph and epithelial surfaces

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8
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first critical barrier is

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the skin- cuts, abrasions, burns expose body to bacterial, viral and fungal infections that can be fatal

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9
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main portals of entry for pathogens

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-mucosal epithelia of gastrointestinal, respiratory and urogenital tracts

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10
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cells of the innate and adaptive immune system are derived from

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pluripotent hematopoeitic stem cells

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immune cell differentiation process

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1) hematopoietic stem cells divide to produce a progenitor cell with the potential to give rise to all the hematopoietic lineages
2) generation of further progenitor cells committed to progressively narrower ranges of differentiated fates

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12
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both WBC and RBC are derived from

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hematopoietic stem cells via committed progenitors which give rise to erythroid, myeloid and lymphoid lineages

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13
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THE ERYTHROID LINEAGE

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gives rise to the erythrocytes and to megakaryocyes which shed fragments that form the platelets- that initiate blood clotting

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14
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THE MYELOID LINEAGE

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gives rise to phagocytes and inflammatory cells of innate immunity

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THE LYMPHOID LINEAGE

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gives rise to the T and B cells of the adaptive immune system

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16
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activation of innate immune system

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-invoked either directly by a pathogen, or by the adaptive immune response

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17
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indirect activation of the innate immune system

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a lymphocytes o te adaptive immune system produces antibodies whose variable regions recognise a surface component of the bacterium. A non-variable region of the antibody is then recognised by a receptor of the phagocyte, which in turn is activated to engulf it.
- in this way bacteria that have masked the conserved component can be recognised and destroyed by the innate immune system

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18
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opsonin

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a general term for soluble
components of the immune
system e.g. IgG1 that coat micro-organisms
and stimulate uptake by phagocytes

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19
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process of opsonisation

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1) binding of soluble opsonins to particle
2) particle binding via phagocytic receptor
3) particle engulfment with actin polymerisation
4) interlization
5) fusion of phagosome with primary, secondary granules and lysosomes–> destruction

20
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why are phagocytes important

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1) when they sense PAMPs they release cytokines and chemokines that amplify response to infection (e.g. increasing permeability of blood vessels and recruiting additional cells - inflammatory response)
2) they activate the adaptive immune system e.g. dendritic

21
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Ilya Mechnikov

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discovered phenomenon of phagocytosis

1) observed mobile cells in larvae of starfish
2) introduced small thorns rom tangerine tree which had been prepared as a christmas tree for his children
3) next morning he found the thorns surrounded by the mobile cells
4) he knew that when inflammation occurred in animals, with a vascular blood system- leucocytes escaped from their blood vessels
5) occurred to him that leucocytes might take up and digest the bacteria that get into the body

22
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three lineages of the Hematopoietic stem cell lineages

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  • myeloid
  • lymphoid
  • erythroid
23
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myeloid cells are

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innate

24
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name 8 myeloid cells

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  • mast
  • macrophage
  • dendritic
  • mast
  • neutrophil
  • eosinophil
  • basophil
25
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macrophages and their receptors

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display an extensive array of receptors that recognise conserve components of micro-organism as well as scavenger receptors that recognise particles released by dead or damage tissue

26
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macrophages also have receptors for

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complement and antibodies

27
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TLR2

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response to peptidoglycan

28
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TLR4

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response to LPS

29
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C-type lectin - DC-SIGN

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mostly dendritic cells- pathogen recognition. ICAM adhesion

30
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NK-like C-type lectin- Dectin -1

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B-glucan receptor

31
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SR-A - scavenger (collagenous)

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phagocytosis of bacteria

32
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CD36 (non-collagenous) CD36

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phagocytosis of apoptotic cells

33
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chemotaxis

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neutrophils are attracted to bacterial chemical products like peptide fMLP

34
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fluid matrices contain

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antibacterial peptides and toxic proteins

35
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antibacterial peptides and toxic proteins are..

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constitutively secreted and further induced in response to cell wall components such as LPS

36
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examples of antibacterial peptides found in the lungs and skin

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B-defensins

37
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examples of antibacterial peptides found in the Paneth cells of the intestinal tract

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a-defensins

38
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examples of antibacterial peptides found in the fluids bathing the cornea

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Lysoszyme

39
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what are cathelicidins

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(another group of antimicrobial defensives) which are produced by activated neutrophils and epithelial cells

40
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as well as their antimicrobial activity cathelicidins also …

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trigger signalling through the formyl peptide receptor

41
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the formyl peptide receptor

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an innate immune recognition element- which aids in the recruitment of neutrophils to the inflammatory site

42
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formyl-methionyl peptides are…

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bacterial peptides

43
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give an example of a formyl-methionyl peptide

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Formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP)

44
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fMLP

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Formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine

45
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where are fMLP derived from

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NH2-terminal extensions of newly synthesised

polypetides

46
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FMLP is

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is a potent polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) chemotactic factor and is also a macrophage activator.

47
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three roles of FMLP

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(a) released by tissue bacteria,
(b) attract and activate circulating blood leukocytes by binding to specific G protein coupled receptors on these cells, and
(c) thereby direct the inflammatory response to sites of bacterial invasion.