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Lecture 7 Flashcards

1
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Why do we need immuological tolerance?

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Many self reactive specificities would be produced, and autoimmune diseases would results from the immune system attacking urself

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What happens if we don’t have tolerance?

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Would lead to serious pathology

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What are the two types of bad tolerance for TCR?

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  1. T cells fail to recognise self MHC
  2. T cells recognise self MHC + peptide (autoreactive)
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4
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What is a useful type of T cell tolerance?

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Recognise self MHC + any other peptide not present in thymus

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What is negative selection of TCR tolerance?

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When the T cells recognise their own self-MHC

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6
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What is T cell survival and tolerance based on?

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TCR affinity

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7
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What is the best mechanism for T cell survival?

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A population with TCRs that have a medium affinity - capable of binding peptides derived from antigens NOT present in the thymus

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8
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Not all self antigen are expressed in thymus, what else can be?

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Insulin

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9
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What does AIRE stand for?

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Autoimmune regulator protein

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What is AIRE?

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A transcription factor

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11
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What is the job of AIRE?

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Allows lots of tissues specific genes to be expressed in the thymus at low levels

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12
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What is the reasons for insulin being expressed in the thymus?

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Deletes autoreactive T cells

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13
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What does a global transcription factor allow?

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Allows us to become tolerant as it controls expression

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14
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What is AIRE deficiency?

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When People have major autoimmune syndromes

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15
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What leads to b cell tolerance?

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Random Ig gene arrangements leads to self reactive BCRs

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16
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Where are autoreactive B cells negatively selected?

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In the bone marrow

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17
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What is different about b cells than T cells in tolerance?

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B cells get another change to re-arrange the self-reactive BCR

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18
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What is it called when self-reactive BCR can rearrange?

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Receptor editing

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19
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What is receptor editing?

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A new chain may remove self-reactivity changing the specific of the BCR

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20
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What does binding of self antigen by immature B cells lead to?

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Death or anergy

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21
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What happens in anergy?

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Sneak out the bone marrow by lowering the B cell receptor so they don’t get killed

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What are the levels of BCR like in a anergic B cell?

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Low levels of BCR become unresponsive

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23
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What happens when receptors encounter an AG that is not multivalent?

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They done regulate BCR and leave the bone marrow unresponsive

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Can T cells be made anergic?

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Yes - if a T cell encounters an Ag in the absence of co-stimulation becomes anergic

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What happens if a T cell only gets signal 1?

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The T cell will override and not work

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26
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What are some other mechanisms of tolerance?

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Immunological ignorance and privileged sites

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27
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What is immunological ignorance?

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When the T cells don’t get enough expression to drive signal 1 or 2

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28
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What are privileged sites?

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Stops immune cells going into the central nervous system with barriers

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29
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Where are the barriers in privileged sites?

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Eyes, testis, CNS

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30
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What do B cells hope in tolerance?

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They are dependent on T cell tolerance, they hope they will never get help from an autoreactive T cell

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31
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What are regulatory T cells?

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Subsets of cells which are there to portrol other cells

32
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What happens if you dont have regulatory T cells?

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You will have autoimmunity

33
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Where do Treg cells arise?

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In the thymus from T cells with high affinity receptors or self antigens

34
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What are induced Tregs (iTregs)?

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Cells that have come out of the thymus that have avoided negative selection

35
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What does IL-10 do?

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Turns off antigen presentation function

36
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What happens if a cell produces IL-10?

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It is turning off potentially self reactive cells

37
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What are Breg/10?

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They are crucial for preventing autoimmunity

38
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What is regulation of immune responses?

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To make that the response that is targeted towards the pathogen is pathogen specific and is controlled and regulated once it has done its job

39
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What are cytokines in TH2 (helper cells)

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IL-4,5 and 13

40
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What are cytokines in TH1 (helper cells)?

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Infrerferongamma

41
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What does interferongamma do?

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Activates macrophages

42
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Why is interferongamma good for TH1?

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If you have a bacteria infection then response will go to TH1 - macrophage will do its job better at engulfing the bacteria

43
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What are cytokines 4,5 and 13 good for TH2 if you have a parasitic worm?

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The recruitment of innate cells release things to kill large cellular parasites

44
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What do naive CD4+ T cell differentiate into?

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Effector T cells

45
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What do CD4+TH1 do?

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Activate macrophages, NK cells and cytotoxic T cells

46
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What do CDR4+Th2 do?

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Promote responses mediated by enosiophils and mast cells, antibody IgE

47
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What do CD4+Th17 do?

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Promote responses against fungi

48
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What do CD4+ Treg/Breg do?

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Suppress unwanted responses

49
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What do CD4+TFH do?

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Specialised Th found in GC to help B cells (GC - germinal centre)

50
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What can CD4+TH1 cells express?

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CD40L which binds to CD40 on macrophages

51
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What can CD4+TH1 kill?

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Chronically infected macrophages, bacteria

52
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What cells are involved in CD4+Treg? (Biomarkers)

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CD4+CD25+ and some CD8+ CELLS

53
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What is the function of Treg cells?

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To make anti inflammatory cytokines to suppress other T cell responses

54
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What cels do CD4+Treg cells suppress?

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TFG-beta and IL-10

55
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What does IL-10 inhibit?

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Antigen presenting cells

56
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What is the Th response influenced by (helper cells)?

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By signal 3 - influenced by cytokines that are present when T cells are activated

57
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Can cells go down TH1 and TH2?

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No only one route at a time

58
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What do cytokines do to T cells?

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They polarise them

59
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What is another cytokine in TH1?

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IL-12

60
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What is a key process in TH helper cells?

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Autocrine positive feed back loop

61
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What do PAMPS drive on dendritic cells?

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Il-12

62
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WHAT IS PAMPS recognised by?

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PRR

63
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What does pRR lead to?

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CD80/86

64
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WHAT IS SIGNAL 2 in th1 responses?

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CD86

65
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What is signal 3 in th1?

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IL-12 moves to TH1 to its effector cell

66
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What is signal 2 in TH2?

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Upregulates co-stimulator

67
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How does each route (TH1 and tH2) turn off the other route?

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They inhibit the opposite pathway

68
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What do TH1 cytokines inhibit?

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TH2 and TH17

69
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What do TH2 cytokines inhibit?

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TH1 an dTH17

70
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What do TH17 inhibit?

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Treg

71
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What do Treg inhibit?

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TH1,TH2,TH17

72
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What does Treg allow?

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A successful pregnancy

73
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How does Treg work in pregnancy?

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Prevents the mother from rejecting her unborn foetus

74
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What causes allergy?

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Excessive TH2

75
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What is a way viruses use to stop a mechanisms form happening?

A

To not infect APC but use cross presentation

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