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L: 19 Immunological Tolerance and Autoimmunity Flashcards

1
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Where is Central Tolerance induced?

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In immature self-reactive lymphocytes in the primary lymphoid organs (thymus, bone marrow)

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Where is peripheral tolerance induced?

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Mature self reactive lymphocytes in peripheral sites

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Why is peripheral tolerance needed?

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To prevent activation of these potentially dangerous lymphocytes in the tissue

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What does central tolerance ensure?

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That mature lymphocytes are not reactive to self Ags.

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Unlike “nonspecific” immunosuppression tolerance is ?

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Ag specific

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6
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Immunological Tolerance is specific ___________ to an Ag

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Unresponsiveness

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What is the result of autoimmunity?

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Breakdown of self-tolerance

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Immature lymphocytes specific for self Ags may encounter these Ags in the generative lymphoid organs and are either?
What type of tolerance?

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  • Deleted
  • Change BCR specificity(B cells only)
  • Developed into Treg cells

Central Tolerance

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Mature self-reactive lymphocytes in peripheral tissues may be either?

What type of tolerance?

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  • Inactivated (anergy)
  • Deleted (apoptosis)
  • Suppressed by the Treg cells

Peripheral tolerance

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10
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The thymus has a special mechanism for expressing many protein Ags that are?

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Present only in certain peripheral tissues

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11
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TCR signaling in T cells triggers what?

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Mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis- negative selection

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What 2 things does recognition of self Ags by immature T cells in the thymus lead to?

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  1. Death of the cell by negative selection

2. Development of Treg cells that enter peripheral tissue

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13
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Where does Central Tolerance take place?

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Thymus

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14
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What happens to nonfunctioning thymocytes showing no affinity?

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Apoptosis

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What happens to strongly self-reactive thymocytes, and where is this determined?

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Determined my interaction with MHC self peptide complexes

They are deleted

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Thymocytes that are activated by MHC-self peptide complexes below a certain threshold are what?

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positively selected and migrate into the periphery as mature T-cells

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Most of the thymocytes that migrate into the periphery develop into what?

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Effector CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and mediate both cell- mediated and humoral immune response

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18
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What happens to only a small percentage of T cells that emigrate from the thymus?

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Express FOXP3 and develop into natural CD4+ CD25+ CTLA4+ Treg cells

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What happens to immature B cells that recognize self Ags in the bone marrow with high avidity?

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Die by apoptosis or undergo receptor editing and change specificity of BCRs

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Define receptor editing

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Rearrangement and replacement of the IgL-chain genes that occur until non-self recognizing receptors are produced or the cell dies

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What may lead to anergy of the B cells?

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Weak recognition of self Ags in bone marrow

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What are two major mechanisms mediating central tolerance?

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Clonal deletion

Anergy

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What happens when an immature B-cell reacts with high avidity?

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Apoptosis within 2-3 days

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What happens when an immature B-cell reacts with low avidity?

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induced unresponsiveness or anergy but allowed for migration into peripheral compartment

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There is one other mode of selection against autoreactive immature B cells called receptor editing. Describe receptor editing

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rearrangement program at the Ig light chain resulting i expression of a new light chain with the existing H chain to form a non-autoreactive BCR

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26
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What is the ration of kappa/lambda in peripheral B cells?

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3:2

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Receptor editing of the IgL chain generates cell-surface immunoglobulin that lack?

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Self-reactivity

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Deletion of self-reactive lymphocytes occur via what two pathways?

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Mitochondrial (intrinsic) pathway
Death receptor (extrinsic) pathway
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29
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Key mediator of peripheral tolerance?

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Treg cells

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Treg cells may inhibit T cell activation by _____ and inhibit T-cell differentiation into ____.

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APCs

CTLs

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31
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Treg cells may prevent T-cells from providing what?

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Help to B cells in the production of Abs

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32
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What are induced Treg cells?

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FOXP3+ Treg cells generated from peripheral mature T cells OUTSIDE the thymus

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33
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What cells can also acquire Treg phenotype and function?

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iTreg cells (induced) OUTSIDE THE THYMUS

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34
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Theree is a close relationship between iTreg and what cells?

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Th17

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35
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What needs to be present for FoxP3 expression in naive CD4+ cells in vitro?

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TGF-Beta

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What prevents FoxP3 expression

37
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What sparks Th17 cell differentiation?

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TGF-B + IL-6 prevents FoxP3 expression and induces retinoic acid receptors (RAR) and related orphan nuclear receptors therefore activating Th17 differentiation

38
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What do Treg cell suppress in peripheral tissues

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Activation of self-reactive lymphocytes

39
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Development and survival of regulatory Tcell requires?

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IL-2 and FoxP3

40
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Natural Treg cells are generated by?

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self Ag recognition in the thymus

41
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Inducible Treg cells are produced by Ag recognition where?

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Lymph nodes and GI tract

42
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What attenuates BCR signaling?

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CD22 inhibitory receptor is phosphorylated by Lyn and then recruits SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase

43
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Defects in what Lyn tyrosine kinase, SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase, and CD22 inhibitory receptor leads to what?

A

Autoimmunity

44
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The balance of what controls the outcome of peripheral tolerance

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BCR vs BAFF signaling controls

45
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AIRE deficiency causes?

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Failure of central tolerance causing Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome (APS)

46
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FoxP3 deficiency causes?

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Impaired production of regulatory T calls causing IPEX syndrome

47
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C1q and C4 deficiency causes?

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Decreased clearance and impaired tolerance induction by apoptotic cells

48
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CTLA-4 polymorphisms causes?

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Failure of anergy in CD4+ T cells causing Altered Immune Signaling thresholds

49
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Loss of self tolerance leads to what?

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Autoimmunity

50
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What does AIRE stand for?

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AutoImmune REgulator

51
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What has a key function as APCs and express large numbers of self-Ags that are presented to developing T-cells

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Medullary Thymic Epithelial Cells

52
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Mutations in AIRE proteins cause?

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breakdown of central tolerance by decreased expression of Self-Ags in the thymus

53
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AIRE regulates the expression of?

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Tissue-restricted Ags (TRAs)

54
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Peptide from what are displayed on the Medullary Thymic Epithelial cells

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Tissue restricted Ags (TRAs)

55
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The recognition of TRAs by T-cells leads to?

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Deletion of self-reactive T cells

56
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What happens in the absence of AIRE

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Self-reactive T-cells are not eliminated and can enter tissue and cause injury

57
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What is outcome of normal T-cell response?

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An Effector and Memory T cell

58
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T cell responses are induced when?

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  1. TCR recognizes an Ag presented by APC (signal 1)

2. CD28 recognizes B7 costimulators on the APCs (signal 2)

59
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If the T cell recognizes a self Ag without costimulation, the T cell becomes unresponsive to the Ag because of a block in signal from the TCR complex. What are three possible causes of the block?

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  1. Recruitment of phosphatase to TCR complex
  2. Activation of Ubiquitin Ligase that degrades signaling protein
  3. Engagement of inhibitory receptors CTLA-4
60
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What happens with an Anergic T-cell?

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Remains viable but unable to respond to the self Ag

61
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T cell activation is regulated by members what family of costimulatory molecules

62
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Homolog of CD28?

63
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what does CTLA-4 do?

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Inhibitory receptor that terminates immune responses and maintains self tolerance

64
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What two autoimmune diseases is caused by polymorphisms in CTLA-4?

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Type 1 diabetes and Graves disease

65
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Two important properties of CTLA-4

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  1. Expression is low on resting T-cell until cell is activated by Ag
  2. CTLA-4 terminates continuing activation of responding Regulatory T cells
66
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Explain CTLA-4 cell intrinsic inhibitory signal?

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Engagement of CTLA-4 on T cell delivers inhibitory signal that terminates further activation

67
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Explain Cell-extrinsic Action of CTLA-4

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CTLA-4 on Treg cell or responding T-cell binds to B7 on APC or makes unavailable to CD28 blocking T cell activation

68
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Where is CTLA-4 expressed?

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Regulatory T-cell and mediates the suppressive function of these cells by inhibiting the activation of naive T cells

69
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Natural Treg cells are ______ selected in the Thymus

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Positively

70
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Are Natural Treg cells eliminated by Apoptosis?

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No they produce an Anti-apoptotic molecule which protects them from negative selection in the thymus

71
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All Treg cells express______ transcriptional factor and are _____ _____ positive

A

FoxP3

CD4+ CD25+

72
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All Treg cell express high levels of _______

73
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What cytokine is critical for the survival and competence of all Treg cells

74
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Treg cells are endogenous ________ population of ________ T-cells

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Long Lived

Self-Ag-specific

75
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What does growth factor-B inhibit?

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Inhibits development of Th1 and Th2 subsets
Inhibits M1 macrophages
Inhibits proliferation of effector function of T-cell

76
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What does growth factor-B Promote?

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  • Th17 in cooperation with IL-1 and IL-6
  • Tissue repair/collogen synthesis
  • Stimulates production of IgA by inducing B cells to switch to this isotype
77
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What does Growth Factor-B regulate?

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Differentiation of induced FoxP3+Treg cells

78
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What is Autoimmunity essentially caused by?

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  • Activation of T cells and/or B-cells in the absence of an ongoing infection or discernible cause
  • Hypersensetive Immune System that causes one’s own immune system to attack itself
79
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What is immunologic ignorance?

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T cells are physically separated from their specific Ag and cannot become activated

80
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Describe the process known as deletion

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T-cells that express Fas (CD95) can recieve signal from cells that express FasL and undergo apoptosis

81
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Describe T-cell inhibition

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CTLA4 binds CD80 on APC inhibiting T cell activation

82
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Describe T-cell Suppression

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Regulatory T cells can inhibit through the production of inhibitory cytokines such as IL-10 and TGFbeta

83
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What is the underlying cause of all autoimmune disease?

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Failure of self-tolerance mechanism

84
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What is the first step in autoimmune development?

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Inflammation

85
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Genetically most autoimmune diseases are?

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Complex polygenic traits. The individual typically inherits multiple genetic polymorphisms that contribute to disease susceptibility

86
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What genes have strongest association to autoimmunity?

A

MCH genes*

Polymorphism in NON_HLA genes is also associated

87
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Microbial Ags can initiate autoimmune disorders through?

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  • molecular mimicry
  • polyclonal activation
  • release of previous sequestered Ag
88
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Who is more common to autoimmune disorders men or woman?

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Women. Estrogen exacerbates systemic lupus erythematous by altering B-cell repertoire

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