Malignant Haematology Flashcards
What two categories are white blood cells broken down into?
Split into myeloid cells and lymphoid cells
Name some myeloid cells and are these granulocytes?
Neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils are all granulocytes
Monocytes are tissue macrophages and are not granulocytes
Name some lymphoid cells?
Natural killer cells
B lymphocytes
T lymphocytes
How many lobes do neutrophils normally have and are they common in adult blood?
Majority of mature myeloid cells in the body with three or 4 lobes.
How many lobes do hypersegmented neutrophils have?
Hypersegmented neutrophils are neutrophils with 5+ lobes.
Where are neutrophil precursors from?
Their precursors are normally only in bone marrow
What diseases are neutrophils important in?
Bacterial and fungal infections
What do chemotaxins do to neutrophils?
They direct them to the site of infection
What are some examples of chemotaxins?
Complements, leucocyte adhesion molecules
Neutrophils - What is phagocytosis?
The ability for neutrophils to ingest invading pathogens once they have been opsonized by complement.
How do neutrophils kill pathogens after creating the phagosome?
Reactive oxygen species and hydrolytic enzymes
What can neutrophils release that has antimicrobial properties?
Granules
What are NETS and what are they made of?
Neutrophil extracellular traps made of DNA
What does seeing myeloblasts make you concerned about and why?
These are really early neutrophil precursors and so you would worry about issues in the bone marrow not letting them form properly.
What do we mean by saying a blood film is left shifted?
You are seeing more immature cells
What do eosinophils have a special role in?
Allergic responses and parasitic defence
What do basophils contain?
Heparin (blood clotter) and histamine (inflammatory response)
What type of receptors do basophils have?
IgE
What do monocytes do?
Migrate to tissues and transforms into macrophages and dendritic cells
What do monocytes do during infection?
Phagocytose, antigen presentation and cytokine production
Where do monocytes reside?
Spleen
What is neutrophilia and what causes this?
Too many neutrophils and can be caused by pregnancy, inflammation, steroids, chemotherapy etc.
Benign Disorders - neutropenia - does this have ethnic variations?
Yes
Symptoms of neutropenia?
Recurrant infections, opportunistic and unusual infections
Can you get neutropenia where you have the correct number of neutrophils but they are non-functional?
Yes
lymphocytes - what part of the immune system are they in and what do they do?
innate immunity who identify known self antigens during antigen presentation
Where are lymphocytes produced?
Bone marrow
Where do t cells mature?
thymus
what are the secondary lymphoid organs lymphocytes circle round?
Lymph nodes and spleen
Do lymphocytes create memory cells?
yes
Plasma cells - what do these secrete?
Antibodies
What causes multiple myeloma?
Clonal proliferation of plasma cells
B lymphocytes - what receptors for antigen do they have?
Immunoglobin - IgM, IgG, IgA, IgE, IgD
What part of the B lymphocytes are variable for antigen specificity?
Fab region
Can B lymphocytes make memory B cells?
Yes
How do you identify a multiple myelonoma?
Detecting a monoclunal immunoglobulin fragment made by malignant plasma cells called a paraprotein
What can you find out about T cells from their receptor?
T-cell and you can work out if these all come from the one clone or several and adjuct reaction as needed.