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Lecture 29. Overview of the Immune System Flashcards

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What are the key primary lymphoid organs of the immune system ?

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  1. Thymus

2. Bone marrow

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What are the secondary lymphatic tissues ?

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Spleen, tonsils, lymph vessels, lymph nodes, skin and liver

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Where do B-cells develop ?

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Bone marrow

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Where do t-cells develop ?

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Thymus

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What do immune cells use to travel through the body ?

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Lymphatic highway system

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What are some strategic locations where immune cells may be stored ?

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  1. Ln
  2. Tonsils
  3. Peyers patch
  4. Spleen
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What are the phagocytes ?

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  1. Macrophages
  2. Neutrophils
  3. Dendritic cells
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What do innate leukocytes include ?

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  1. Phagocytes
  2. Basophils
  3. Natural killer cells
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9
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What is the function of innate leukocytes ?

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Identify and eliminate pathogens and are important mediators in the activation of the adaptive immune system

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What do natural killer cells go after ?

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Tumor cells and viruses

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What is the function of perforin ?

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Perforates membrane

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12
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What is the function of granzyme ?

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Degrades membranes

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What is the function of natural killer cells ?

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Inserts granzymes and perforin into the cells that destroy tem

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What is the function of T-cells ?

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Destroy foreign or damaged cells

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What is the function of helper T-cells ?

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Regulate the attack of foreign and damaged cells

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What do killer T-cells do ?

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Carry out the attack on the foreign or damaged cells

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What do B-cells produce ?

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Antibodies

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18
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What are antibodies specific towards ?

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One antigen

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19
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What is an antigen ?

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A toxic or foreign substance

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What happens when the antibody binds to the antigen ?

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A signal for other cells and molecules of the immune systems to come and destroy the antigen

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What is one of the key differences between the adaptive and innate immune system ?

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Innate is rapid, the adaptive immune system takes longer to develop

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22
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How is an autoimmune disease caused ?

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The body sees its own cells as foreign and attacks them

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23
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What are two examples of an immune over reaction ?

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  1. Autoimmune problem

2. Allergic reaction

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What are two examples of an immune under reaction ?

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  1. Disease

2. Infection

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What is homeostatic inflammation used for ?

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A protective response

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26
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What happens everyday to the cells of the villi ?

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They shed and new ones are made by stem cells in the crypts

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27
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What are some results if the immune system in the gut goes wrong ?

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  1. Ulcerative colitis
  2. Crohns disease
  3. Coeliac disease
  4. Food allergy
  5. Colorectal cancer
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28
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How are RNA viruses recognised ?

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Via nucleic acid detection

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29
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What do RNA viruses drive ?

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Interferons

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30
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What type of RNAs are innate immune responses most reliant on the detection of ?

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dsRNA

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31
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What type of virus is covid ?

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Positive sense single stranded RNA

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32
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What type of RNA does covid generate ?

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Double stranded RNA

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How does covid replicate ?

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The replication of the positive sense ssRNA genome proceeds through double stranded RNA intermediates,

34
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What is the purpose of covid replication in membranous invaginations ?

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Avoidance of cellular response to the presence of dsRNA

35
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What is the function of oligo adenylate synthase ?

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Activates RNAase L

36
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What is the function of RNAase-L ?

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Degrade cytoplasmic RNA

37
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What do RNA viruses try to subvert ?

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Recognition via nucleic acid detection

38
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What does CoV mediated antagonism of innate immunity begin with ?

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The evasion of PRR sensing

39
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What do ssRNA form during replication ?

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dsRNA intermediates

40
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What can dsRNA be detected by in the endosome ?

41
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What can dsRNA be detected by in the cytosol ?

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  1. RIG-I
  2. MDA5
  3. PKR
42
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What can ssRNA be detected by ?

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  1. TLR7
  2. TLR8
  3. RIG-I
  4. PKR
43
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How can CoVs avoid PRR activation ?

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  1. Avoiding recognition

2. Antagonising PRR action

44
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How do dsRNAs evade PRR ?

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dsRNA is shielded by membrane bound compartments that form during viral replication of SARSCoV-1

45
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What is the structure of viral RNA ?

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Guanosine-capped and methylated at the 50 end by CoVs nonstructural proteins 10, 13, 14 and

46
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What does the structure of viral RNAs help ?

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Look more like self RNA

47
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What helps dsRNA avoid detection by MDA5 ?

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An endonuclease that cleaves off poly uridine

48
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What is hypoxemia ?

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Not enough oxygen in the circulating blood cells

49
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How does cancer occur ?

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When a normal cell goes out of control dividing and these cells express stress markers or produce antigens that normal cells dont produce

50
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What are activatory receptors ?

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Stress markers which become activated to kill

51
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What is the function of an activatory receptor ?

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How immune cells particularly innate immune cells kill

52
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What does a T-cell need to kill ?

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Two signals

53
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What is the function of the first signal of the T-cell ?

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Alert the immune cells

54
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What is the function of the second signal in T-cells ?

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A costimulatory molecule which gives a boost to activate the T-cell

55
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What is the most important costimulatory signal for a T-cell ?

56
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What does CD28 do ?

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Binds to B7 on the presenting cell

57
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What do immune cells also have ?

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Inhibitory receptors

58
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What are inhibitory receptors critical for ?

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Autoimmunity

59
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What are two examples of inhibitory receptors ?

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  1. PD1

2. CTLA

60
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What is CTLA4 ?

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A checkpoint that binds B7 - in competition with CD28

61
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What does PD bind to ?

62
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How does cancer hijack the immune system ?

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Cancer cells put the receptors for these checkpoints in their surface which inhibits immune response

63
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What does ipilimumab do ?

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An antibody which blocks CTLA4

64
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How does the immune system respond to fat ?

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Inflammatory response

65
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What happens when fat cells store excess fat ?

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They burst and release lipids into the body which is toxic to cells

66
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What is the function of macrophages and fat ?

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Engulf the lipids to try clean up and produce cytokines to helpp

67
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What is a characteristic of obesity ?

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Inflammation in the dat tissue

68
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What can TNF do ?

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Activate JNK signaling

69
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What does the activation of JNK signaling pathway do ?

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Phosphorylation of the insulin receptor and leads to insulin resistance

70
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What is the immune system in fat doing in healthy lean people ?

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Constantly fighting disorder to maintain homeostasis

71
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What is lean adipose tissue full of ?

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Innate T-cells

72
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What are ab T -cells ?

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They are CD4 or CD8 positive and recognise antigens presented in the context of MHC

73
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What is special about innate T-cells in fats ?

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They recognise lipids

74
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What are iNKT cells rich in ?

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Adipose tissue

75
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What is one of the things that iNKT cells do ?

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Produce anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10

76
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What activates iNKT cells ?

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Alpha GalCer

77
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What are iNKT important for ?

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Thermogenesis

78
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What are microglia ?

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Macrophage like cells

79
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What is alzheimers sensed by ?

80
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Are the brain and the immune system in constant communication ?

81
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What are the meninges of the brain packed with ?

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Immune cells

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