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Non-Specific Immune Response Flashcards

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What do tears contain?

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An enzyme called lysozyme.

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How does Lysozyme kill bacteria?

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Lysozyme kills bacteria by breaking down their cell walls

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Where is the enzyme also found?

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In nasal secretions and saliva

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What is the purpose of Lysozyme?

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Protect body from harmful bacteria we breathe or the food we eat.

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What happens when someone sustains an injury?

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Microbes enter the body.

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What helps seal a wound?

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A blood clot.

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What is inflammation at the site called?

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An inflammatory response.

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What does an inflammatory response help do?

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Helps destroy invading microbes

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What do damaged WBC + mast cells release?

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Chemicals and Histamine

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What do the chemicals released by WBCs and mast cells do?

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Chemicals cause arterioles in the area to dilate, increasing blood flow in the capillaries at the infected site.

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What does Histamine do to the capillaries?

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Histamine increases the permeability of the capillaries: cells in the capillary walls separate slightly=vessels leak.

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What substances leak from vessels?

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Plasma fluid, WBC, antibodies leak from blood into the tissue.

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What does the leaking of plasma fluid, WBC and antibodies cause? What can this result in?

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Odema (swelling). Microbes can now be attacked by these intact white cells.

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What are Phagocytes?

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Phagocytes are WBC that, engulf bacteria + other foreign matter in blood + tissues

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What do Phagocytes include?

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Phagocytes include: neutrophils + macrophages

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Neutrophils

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  • Leave blood capillaries by squeezing the cells of capillary walls
    • Ingest + destroy bacteria
    • Last a few days
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Lymphocytes

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  • Two types: B cells + T cells
    • Involved in immune response: antibody production + immunity
    • Can survive for a few days or few years
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Monocytes

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  • Circulate in the blood for a day or two before they move into the tissue by squeezing between the cells of the capillary walls
    • Here they become macrophages + engulf bacteria

Present in: lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen + lymph nodes

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Other White Blood Cells

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Produce chemical histamine involved in the inflammatory response.

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WBC

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All contain a nucleus

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RBC

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No nucleus. Transport oxygen and some CO2

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Platelets

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Platelets: Cell fragments involved in blood clotting.

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ACTION AT THE INFECTED SITE: What do the chemicals released by bacteria and cells damaged attract?

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Phagocytic white cells.

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What white blood cell is first to arrive?What do they do?

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Neutrophils are first to arrive and engulf bacteria and become inactive and die.

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After the neutrophils die what is it then followed by?

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Macrophages which are larger and longer lived cells
They destroy more bacteria than neutrophils
Then ingest debris from damaged cells.

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Where is the ingested material enclosed? How is the lysosome involved?

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  1. Ingested material is enclosed in a vacuole
  2. Lysosome containing digestive enzymes fuse with the vacuole
  3. Enzymes are released + destroy bacteria
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Stages of Neutrophils/Macrophages destroying Bacteria

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  1. Bacteria with antigens on surface.
  2. Engulfed by neutrophil or macrophage
  3. Enclosed in vacuole
  4. Lysosomes fuse with vacuole, releasing enzymes that destroy foreign material.
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ACTION TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF INFECTION: Where do some bacteria go? How can it be stopped?

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Some bacteria get carried by the blood or the lymph

Spread of this bacteria can be stopped by the action of macrophages in the lymph nodes, spleen + liver

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What happens when the lymph system fails?

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When the lymph system fails the body goes into septic shock.

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Role of lymph nodes in the lymphatic system

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  1. Tissue fluid drains into the lymphatic vessels.
  2. Lymph (fluid) flows through lymph vessels + passes through lymph nodes: returns to blood via lymphatic + thoracic duct.
  3. As lymph passes through the lymph nodes, any pathogen present activate lymphocytes + macro phages then destroy the microbes.
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ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS (INTERFERON): What protein is the only non-specific defence against viruses?

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Interferon.

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Where is interferon produced?

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Virus infected cells produce this protein and it diffuses to the surrounding cells.

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What does interferon do?

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Prevents viruses from multiplying
Inhibits viral protein synthesis
Limits formation of new virus particles.

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