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Tolerance and Autoimmunity Flashcards

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4 criteria for an autoimmune disease?

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Evidence of disease specific adaptive immune response in the affected target tissue/organ/blood

Passive transfer of auto reactive cells or antibodies replaces the disease

elimination of the autoimmune response eliminates the disease

history of autoimmune disease/MHC associations

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factors for autoimmune disease? (6)

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Microbiome
Stress
Diet
Sex
Infections
Genes
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effector mechanism of autoimmunity resembles which HS reactions?

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mechanisms resemble those of hypersensitivity reactions, types II, III, and IV

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What is the hygiene hypothesis? What evidence supports this?

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that if the immune system isn’t fighting infection it may begin to fight self

  • Incidence of autoimmune disease (and hypersensitivity) is increasing
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During pregnancy what happens to autoimmune diseases and why?

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  • During pregnancy there is a shift away from inflammatory responses to help protect the fetus, so often diseases go away during pregnancy then come back (e.g. arthritis)
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Some important autoimmune diseases? (5)

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RA
T1DM
MS
SLE
Autoimmune thyroid disease
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Example of a specific target autoimmune disease? (3)

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Graves’
T1DM
Pernicious anaemia

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Example of a nonspecific target autoimmune disease? (3)

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SLE/RA/Vasculitis

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What is a t2 HS reaction

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  • Antibody response to cell surface or insoluble extracellular matrix antigen (against insuluble antigen
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What is a t3 HS reaction

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  • Immune complex formed by antibody against soluble antigen that go into circulation
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What is a t4 HS reaction

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  • T-cell mediated disease (Delayed type hypersensitivity reaction,
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What is Goodpastures syndrome

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antibody binds to basement membranes in kidney- leads to complement activation and inflammation

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Summarise Graves disease

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antibodies against TSH receptor cause release of thyroid hormone w/o negative feedback

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Example of a T3 HS disease

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SLE

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3 examples of T4 HS diseases?

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Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
RA
MS

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Autoantigen and pathology and HS reaction type of:

RA

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T4
unknown synovial joint antigen
Joint inflammation and destruction

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Autoantigen and pathology and HS reaction type of:

MS

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Myelin basic protein, proteolipid protein

T4

Brain degeneration (demyelination) weakness and paralysis

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What do CD8+ cells recognise

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MHC Class I

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What do CD4+ cells recognise

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MHC Class II

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What is the dominant genetic factor affecting susceptibility to autoimmune disease?

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MHC class II

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What is tolerance defined as

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ACQUIRED INABILITY TO RESPOND TO AN ANTIGENIC STIMULUS

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2 types of tolerance?

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Central and peripheral

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What is central tolerance?

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The elimination of self-reactive lymphocytes during lymphocyte development

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What is peripheral tolerance

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Anergy, active suppression (by regulatory T cells), ignorance of antigen (non-exposure/ignorance to antigen)

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Where does central tolerance occur (2)

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THYMIC EPITHELIAL CELLS (TECs) and DENDRITIC CELLS (DCs)

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What 3 categories does the thymus separate lymphocytes into

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  1. Useless (can’t see MHC) die by apoptosis
  2. Useful (see MHC weakly) receive signal to survive- “Positive selection”
  3. Dangerous (see self strongly) receive signal to die by apoptosis- “Negative selection”
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What % of thymocytes survive thymus selection

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Which type of immune cell goes to the thymus

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pre T-cells

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Which type of immune cell matures in the bone marrow

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What happens to a B cell that has no self reaction in the bone marrow

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Migrates to periphery and matures

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What happens to a B cell that has a reaction to a multivalent self molecule in the bone marrow

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Clonal deletion or receptor editing leading to apoptosis

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What happens to a B cell that has a reaction to a soluble self molecule in the bone marrow

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Migrates to periphery and becomes anergic

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What happens to a B cell that has a reaction to a low-affinity-non-crosslinking self molecule in the bone marrow

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Migrates to periphery and becomes a mature clonal ignorant B cell

34
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What is apeced and what does it effect? (6)

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-	APECED is a rare autoimmune disease which affects the endocrine glands:
 Thyroid
 Kidneys
 Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
 Gonadal failure
 DM
 Pernicious anaemia
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What does failure of central tolerance result in

36
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What causes Apeced

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mutations in the transcription factor AIRE (autoimmune regulator) gene

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What is AIRE important in

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  • AIRE is important for the expression of ‘tissue-specific’ genes in the thymus
38
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Many of the genes that are implicated in genetic susceptibility to autoimmune diseases are involved in… (3)

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  1. induction of tolerance
  2. apoptosis
  3. clearance of antigen
39
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3 mechanisms for inducing and maintaining tolerance in the periphery?

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  1. Anergy
  2. Suppression by regulatory T cells
  3. (Ignorance of antigen)
40
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What do naive T cells need for full activation? Examples of what they need? (3)

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co-stimulation for full activation: CD80, CD86 and CD40 are examples of costimulatory molecules expressed on APC

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What does stimulation without a co-stimulatory molecule lead to

42
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How does anergy occur

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stimulation without a co-stimulatory molecule lead to

43
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When does immunological ignorance occur (2)

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when antigen concentration is too low in the periphery

and when relevant antigen presenting molecule is absent:

44
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Which MHC class are most cells in the periphery

45
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Where does immunological ignorance occur (3)

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immunologically privileged sites such as eye, testes and PNS

46
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Why might cells at immunologically privileged sites react against autoantigens

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They have never been tolerised

47
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What transcription factor is required for Treg development

48
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FOXP3 is required for what

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Treg development

49
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IPEX stands for what

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Immune dysregulation, Polyendocrinopathy, Enteropathy and X-linked inheritance syndrome

50
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Symptoms of IPEX? (5)

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  • Early onset insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
  • Severe enteropathy
  • Eczema
  • Variable autoimmune phenomena
  • Severe infections
51
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Symptoms of IPEX? (5)

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  • Early onset insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
  • Severe enteropathy
  • Eczema
  • Variable autoimmune phenomena
  • Severe infections
52
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Ways in which infections can cause autoimmunity? (5)

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  • Infections may carry out molecular mimicry of self-molecules
  • Induce changes in the expression and recognition of self-proteins
  • Induction of co-stimulatory molecules or inappropriate MHC class II expression: pro-inflammatory environment
  • Failure in regulation by effecting/infecting regulatory T-cells
  • Immune deviation shift in type of immune response e.g. Th1-Th2
  • Tissue damage at immunologically privileged sites

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