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Module 2 Unit 1: Nonspecific and innate defense mechanisms Flashcards

1
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Defends the body against microbes during the first few hours or days after infection

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Innate Immunity

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Mediated by mechanisms that are in place even before infection and facilitate rapid responses to invading microbes

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Innate Immunity

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Cardinal feature of the adaptive immune system

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Memory

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TRUE or FALSE: The adaptive immune system does not remember prior encounters with microbes and resets to baseline after each encounter

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FALSE

Innate Immune System

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This type of immunity develops as a response to infection and adapts to the infection

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Adaptive Immunity

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6
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Recognizes and reacts to a large number of microbial and nonmicrobial substances (antigens)

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Adaptive Immunity

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7
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Phagocytes express receptors for bacterial endotoxin known as _______ and other receptors for ________, which are present in bacterial cell walls

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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), Peptidoglycans

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Phagocyte receptors also recognize ________ in bacterial glycoproteins

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Terminal mannose residues

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9
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Microbial molecules that stimulate innate immunity

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Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)

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10
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Receptors of innate immunity that recognize shared structures

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Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)

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TRUE or FALSE: The components of innate immunity have evolved to recognize structures of microbes that are often essential for the survival and infectivity of microbes

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True

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12
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These are molecules recognized by the innate immune system that are released from damaged or necrotic host cells

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Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs)

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13
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2 specific receptors in the adaptive immune system capable of recognizing millions of antigens

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Immunoglobulin (Ig)

T cell receptors (TCRs)

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14
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Cells capable of recognizing self-antigens in the adaptive immune system
* They die or are inactivated on encounter with self-antigens

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Lymphocytes

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15
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3 strategies done to deal with threats posed by microbes

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  1. Avoidance
  2. Resistance
  3. Tolerance
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16
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This mechanism prevents exposure to microbes and includes both anatomic barriers and behavior modifications

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Avoidance mechanism

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Aimed at reducing or eliminating pathogens

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Resistance

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18
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Molecular and cellular functions suited to resist diff. categories of pathogens

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Mediators or effector mechanisms

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19
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Responses that enhance a tissue’s capacity to resist damage induced by microbes

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Tolerance

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20
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Defenses provided by specialized cells that have the ability to recognize, sequester, and eliminate various types of organisms or harmful substances

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Cell-mediated immunity

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21
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Cell-free defenses provided by soluble macromolecules that circulate in the blood and extracellular fluid, and are inhospitable to foreign invaders

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Humoral immunity

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22
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Earliest defense mechanism active at the portals of entry, providing physical barriers and antimicrobial molecules and lymphoid cells

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Epithelia

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23
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Microbes that breach epithelia, as well as dead cells in tissues, are detected by

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Macrophages
Dendritic cells
Mast cells

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24
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Initiate the process of inflamm.

25
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These react against microbes and promote their destruction

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Plasma proteins

26
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These are produced by viruses; inhibit infection of other cells and the killing of infected cells by NK cells

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Interferons

27
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General Features of Innate Immunity

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Barrier defense
Complement activation
Pattern recognition
Inflammation
Phagocytosis
Target cell lysis
28
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These take action once invaders breach the barriers as a result of pattern recognition mediated by the binding of PRMs to PAMPs furnished by pathogens and to DAMPs emanating from damaged host cells

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Innate leukocytes

29
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PRMs expressed by innate leukocytes

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Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)

30
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PRRs are located in the _____ of an innate leukocyte, or are soluble molecules free in the leukocyte’s cytoplasm, or are fixed in the membranes of _____

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plasma membrane, endosomes

31
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These activate events responsible for the influx of innate and adaptive leukocytes into the site of injury or infection

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Proinflammatory cytokines

32
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TRUE or FALSE: Like acute inflammation, chronic inflammation is a normal process, so there is nothing to worry about and will reside on its own.

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False

Prolonged inflammation is immunopathic and undermines homeostasis

33
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Phagocytosis translates to

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“eating of cells”

34
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Phagocytosis is carried out by 3 types of PRR-expressing cells namely

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Neutrophils
Dendritic cells
Macrophages

35
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_____ and _____ engulf pathogens, dead host cells, cellular debris, and host macromolecules

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Macrophages, Dendritic cells

36
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Cells that carry out target cell lysis

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Neutrophils
Macrophages
NK cells

37
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Cancer cells and infected cells express these components on their surfaces that mark them as target cells for destruction

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DAMPs and/or PAMPs

38
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A phospholipid-based substance made in the lung that acts to trap microbes and can directly lyse bacteria

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Pulmonary surfactant

39
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A prominent enzyme in tears and saliva that breaks down peptidoglycan in the cell walls of gram-positive bacteria

40
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Lysozymes lack _____, making them a prototype of an innate immune protein since they do not affect host cells

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Peptidoglycan

41
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Lysozyme is made by

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epithelial cells, phagocytes, and Paneth cells

42
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An ancient form of defense because they are found in most species

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Antimicrobial peptides

43
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3 classes of antimicrobial peptides

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  1. Defensins
  2. Catelicidins
  3. Histatins
44
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Key property of defensins

* Underly their specificity for pathogenic membranes

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Amphipathicity

45
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30-40 amino acid peptides that have 3 disulfide bonds

46
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Alpha defensin produced by Paneth cells

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Cryptidins

47
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Neutrophils produce _____ and store them in primary granules

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alpha-defensins

48
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Type of defensin made in the urogenital and respiratory tracts, skin, and tongue

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beta-defensins

49
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Antimicrobial peptide class that lacks disulfide bonds in the alpha-defensins

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Cathelicidins

50
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Antimicrobial peptide class produced by epithelial cells, phagocytes, and keratinocytes

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Cathelicidins

51
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Antimicrobial peptide class produced in the parotid, sublingual, and submandibular glands in the oral cavity

52
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Histidine-rich and target fungal membranes

53
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A small protein of the S-100 family with potent antimicrobial activity against E. coli

54
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S-100 protein that kills S. aureus

* related to psoriasin

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Calprotectin

55
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Bind carbohydrates on bacterial cell walls, preventing them from contacting the intestinal epithelial cells; are also directly bactericidal

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RegIII proteins

56
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2 surfactant proteins that are members of a class of microbe-binding proteins (collections); present in the lungs and secretions of other mucosal epithelia

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SP-A & SP-D

57
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Prevent infection by blocking and modifying surface components and promoting pathogen clearance

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SP-A & SP-D

58
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Binds the complex polysaccharides coating many of the capsulated forms
* Klebsiella pneumoniae

59
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Binds the exposed cell wall lipopolysaccharide of the non-encapsulated form
* Klebsiella pneumoniae

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