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PSIO Exam 3 Flashcards

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Lymphatic System Functions

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  • drain excess interstitial fluid
  • transport dietary lipids
  • carry out immune responses
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Primary Lymphatic Organs

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  • red bone marrow

- thymus

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Secondary Lymphatic Organs and Tissues

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  • lymph nodes
  • spleen
  • lymphatic nodules/follicles
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Lymphatic Vessels

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  • drain excess ISF and return it to the blood stream

- originate in “close ended” lymph capillaries, which lie adjacent to blood capillaries in the tissue space

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Lymphatic Capillaries

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  • slightly larger than blood capillaries

- have one way valves

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Lymph Nodes

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found at irregular intervals along the lymph vessels

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Non-Specific Resistance

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the body’s lines of defense against invasion by pathogen (ie. bacteria, viruses, fungi, and environmental hazards)

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Non-Specific defenses include:

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  • physical barriers (first line of defense)
  • fever
  • inflammation
  • cells and chemicals
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Physical Barriers to pathogenic invasion

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  • skin
  • mucus membranes
  • hairs and cilia
  • acid
  • tears
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Skin as a Physical Barrier

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sebaceous glands, sudoriferous glands (sweat glands), and lysosome

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Mucus Membranes as a Physical Barrier

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mucus is secreted by specialized epithelial cells called goblet cells

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Hairs and Cilia as a Physical Barrier

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mucus-coated hairs, cilia on specialized epithelial cells that line trachea

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Acid as a Physical Barrier

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the pH of the stomach is about 2.0

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Tears as a Physical Barrier

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also contain lysosome

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Fever

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  • abnormally high body temperature in response to invading microorganisms
  • the body’s thermostat is reset upwards in response to PYROGENS (chemicals secreted by leukocytes and macrophages exposed to bacteria and other foreign substances)
  • high fever is dangerous because it can denature enzymes
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How can moderate fever be beneficial

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  • the liver and spleen sequester iron and zinc (needed by microorganisms). The combination of raised fever and lowered iron inhibits bacterial growth.
  • an increase in the metabolic rate, which speeds up the repair of tissues
  • triggers production of interferons
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Inflammation

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The inflammatory response is triggered whenever body tissues are injured

  • prevents the spread of damaging agents to nearby tissues
  • disposes of cell debris and pathogens
  • sets the stage for repair processes
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4 Cardinal Signs

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  1. redness
  2. heat
  3. swelling
  4. pain
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Cells and Chemicals White Blood Cell Types

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  • eosinophils
  • basophils
  • neutrophils
  • lymphocytes
  • monocytes
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Cells and Chemicals White Blood Cells Function

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WBCs enhance the innate defenses by:

  • attacking microorganisms directly
  • hindering the ability of microorganisms to move, grow, reproduce, etc.
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Cells: Neutrophil Function

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  1. Fastest responders to bacteria
  2. Direct actions against bacteria
    - release lysosomes to digest bacterial cell walls
    - release defense proteins that act like antibiotics and form pores in bacterial cell membranes, destroying them
    - release strong oxidants (e.g. H2O2) that destroy bacteria
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Cells: Basophil Function

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Exit capillaries at sites of inflammation and play a role in allergic reactions
-release heparin, histamine, and serotonin which heighten the inflammatory response and can often contribute to hypersensitivity (allergic) reactions

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Cells: Eosinophils Function

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  • respond to and attack parasitic worms
  • enter ISF and releases histaminase (slows down inflammation caused by basophils)
  • able to phagocytize antibody-antigen complexes
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Cells: Lymphocyte Function

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  1. Most types involved in adaptive immunity
    - B lymphocytes
    - T lymphocytes
  2. Natural killer (NK) cells are involved in innate immunity
    - attack many different microbes directly
    - attack spontaneously arising tumor cells
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Cells: Monocyte Function

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Arrive later to sites of infection, but arrive in much larger numbers

  • destroy microbes and clean up dead tissue following an infection
  • become wandering macrophages in ISF
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Cells and Chemicals: Natural Killer (NK) Cells

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  1. NK cells are a specialized class of T-lymphocytes which perform generalized functions
    - kill tumor cells
    - kill some virus infected cells
  2. NK cells kill via CYTOLYSIS
    - secrete a chemical known as perforin, which perforates the cell membrane
  3. Reduces NK cell counts can be associated with HIV/AIDS
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Cells and Chemicals: Antimicrobial Proteins

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  1. Like WBCs, antimicrobial proteins enhance innate defenses
  2. Specifically, antimicrobial proteins:
    - (also) attack microorganisms directly
    - hinder the ability of some microorganisms to reproduce
  3. The two most important types of antimicrobial proteins are:
    - interferons
    - complement proteins
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Antimicrobial Proteins- Interferons

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  • interferons are proteins that are produced by virus-infected body cells, T lymphocytes, natural killer cells and macrophages
  • interferons and other chemical messengers that alter cellular activities are called cytokines
  • the action of interferons is non-specific, meaning that they work effectively against a large number of virus types
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The Complement System

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  • refers to over 30 specific proteins that “complement” or enhance the action of antibodies
  • complement proteins attach to antibody-antigen complexes
  • the end result of attachment is the formation of membrane attack complex (MAC) which punches holes in bacterial cell membranes (attraction of phagocytes, stimulation of phagocytosis, and inflammation are also the result of complement activation)
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C3 can be activated via:

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  1. classical pathway
  2. alternative pathway
  3. lectin pathway
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Innate Immunity (non-specific resistance to disease)

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Lines of defense against invasion of pathogens:

  1. physical barriers
  2. fever
  3. inflammation
  4. cells and chemicals
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Adaptive Immunity

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  • Body’s ability to recognize and defeat a specific invading agents such as bacteria, viruses and foreign tissues
  • Distinguished from innate immunity by two properties
    1. Specificity for particular foreign molecules (foreign antigens) and tolerance for self proteins
    2. Memory of previously-encountered foreign antigens so that the 2nd exposure prompts a more rapid and vigorous response
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Molecular Information in Residual Bodies:

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  1. things present in extracellular fluid

2. if what was destroyed is something truly foreign

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Peptide fragments >8 amino-acids in length

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human and bacterial protein sequences can be distinguished from each other

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MHC Proteins

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  • immune system’s ID and anti-privacy/surveillance system

- display information in the form of peptides (pieces of protein) to the immune system

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Function of MHC Class II Proteins

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  • present small fragments of protein called processed antigen to the cells of the immune system
  • presented antigen is from protein components of materials engulfed and digested by phagocytes (MHC II displays extracellular antigen)
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Helper T cells

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have T cell receptors whose job it is to interact with MHC II- presented antigen

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Random Sampling (every nucleated cell randomly samples the proteins in its cytoplasm and does the following)

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  1. digests the protein into small peptide fragments of 8-15 amino acids in length
  2. displays those fragments on MHC I
  3. as if to say “here is a sample of what proteins I am making”
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> 8 amino-acids in length

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human and bacterial protein sequences can be distinguished from each other

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Function of MHC I proteins

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  • present small fragments of protein called “processed antigens” to the cells of the immune system
  • presented antigen is from randomly-sampled proteins inside of cells (MHC I displays intracellular antigen)
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Cytotoxic T cells

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have T cell receptors whose job it is to interact with MHC presented antigen

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