Tolerance, autoimmunity, transplantation Flashcards

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What is immunological tolerance?

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Immunological tolerance is a complex series of mechanisms that impair the immune system to mount responses against self antigens. Central tolerance occurs when immature lymphocytes encounter self antigens in the primary lymphoid organs, and consequently they die or become unreactive.

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How can immunological tolerance be breached?

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Tolerance can be broken naturally (as in autoimmune diseases) or artificially (as shown in experimental animals, by x-irradiation, certain drug treatments and by exposure to cross reactive antigens).

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What immunological responses and which components of the immune system are
involved in autoimmunity?

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Major risk factors for autoimmunity

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How are alloantigens from transplanted organs presented to the hosts T-cells?

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Why do we say that allograft rejection follows the rules of immune specificity and
memory?

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What are the causes/mechanisms of transplant rejection in MHC identical
transplantations?

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What is graft versus host disease?

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Tolerance

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prevention of an immune response against self structures

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Central Tolerance

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deletion or inactivation of self-reactive lymphocytes before they mature

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PLO

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Primary lymphoid organs

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Peripheral Tolerance

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It takes place in the immune periphery (after T and B cells egress from primary lymphoid organs). Its main purpose is to ensure that self-reactive T and B cells which escaped central tolerance do not cause autoimmune disease. Peripheral tolerance prevents immune response to harmless food antigens and allergens, too.

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Promotes peripheral tolerance:

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Route or timing of exposure (Oral exposure/ Early in life)
* High dose antigen/ long term antigen exposure
* Low levels of costimulation
* Immature antigen presenting cells (APC)

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Regulatory T cells (Treg )

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are a specialized subpopulation of T cells that act to suppress immune response, thereby maintaining homeostasis and self-tolerance. It has been shown that Tregs are able to inhibit T cell proliferation and cytokine production and play a critical role in preventing autoimmunity.
Natural Treg, (tTreg )
– Peripheral (Induced) Treg
Immunophenotype:
– CD4+, CD25++, FoxP3+,CTLA-4

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Autoimmunity

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an aberration in the body’s normal development such that the immune system mounts an attack against its own cells. The etiology behind autoimmune diseases is multifactorial, with genetic, hormonal, and environmental factors all playing a role.

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Autoantibodies

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Againstreceptors:Inhibitoryorstimulating
– Otherantigens:inflammation
– Fcmediatedphagocytosis
– Fc activation of neutrophils ,eosinophils,basophils,mastcells
– Immuncomplex
- circulation og deposition
– Complement
Membran Attac complex

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Graves disease

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is an autoimmune disorder that can cause hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid. The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland in the front of your neck. Thyroid hormones control the way your body uses energy, so they affect nearly every organ in your body, even the way your heart beats.

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Myastenia gravis

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Myasthenia gravis is a chronic autoimmune, neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles (the muscles that connect to your bones and contract to allow body movement in the arms and legs, and allow for breathing).

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Diabetes Mellitus

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is the scientific name for diabetes, but it is more commonly known simply as diabetes. It’s when your body can’t produce enough of a hormone called insulin, or the insulin it produces isn’t effective. There are two main types of diabetes mellitus: type 1 and type 2.

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Multiple Sclerosis – T helper cells activates the innate immune cells

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is a condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord, causing a wide range of potential symptoms, including problems with vision, arm or leg movement, sensation or balance. It’s a lifelong condition that can sometimes cause serious disability, although it can occasionally be mild.

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Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) – a MS model

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is an inflammatory, autoimmune demyelinating disease of the CNS in rodents, with pathologic and clinical similarities to human multiple sclerosis (MS).

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Genetic factors associated with Autoimmunity

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The proteins encoded by genes associated with autoimmune diseases are involved in several inflammatory mechanisms, such as antigen presentation, type I interferon, Toll-like receptor and NF-κB signaling, B-cell and T-cell function, apoptosis, and clearance of cellular debris and immune complexes

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Epitope spreading

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refers to the development of an immune response to epitopes distinct from, and noncross-reactive with, the disease-causing epitope. Diversification, or the ability of the immune system to attack multiple targets on a pathogen has obvious advantages.

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Molecular mimicry

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is defined as structural similarity between antigens coded by different genes. Molecular mimicry has long been implicated as a mechanism by which microbes can induce autoimmunity.

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Transplantation

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Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location.

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MHC compability

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determines the success of transplantation

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Rejection

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Normal immune response against foreign antigens
* Cellular and humoral
* Adaptive and innate
* Primary and secondary

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Hyperacute rejection

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Occurs within minutes of the kidney transplant, when the recipient’s antibodies immediately recognize the kidney as foreign and attack it. Hyperacute rejection usually cannot be treated and results in the loss of the kidney.
reformedantibodies (ABO and HLA)
– Destruction of capillaries of the graft

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Acute rejection

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occurs days to months after a transplant when the immune system identifies a grafted organ as foreign and attacks it. Acute transplant rejection is common and the prognosis is guarded.
Tcells(CD4+&CD8+),APC, cytokines, and antibodies)
– Sensitization and later effector stage

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Chronic rejection

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is the leading cause of organ transplant failure. The organ slowly loses its function and symptoms start to appear. This type of rejection cannot be effectively treated with medicines. Some people may need another transplant.
Cellularandhumoral(including ADCC)

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MHC matching

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HLA-compatibility
– Depending on immunosuppression
* HLA-identical–monozygotictwins * HLA-haploidentical
* HLA-1sharedhaplotype

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Bloodgroup matching

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The blood type of the donor must be compatible with the recipient. The rules for blood type in transplantation are the same as they are for blood transfusion.

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Cross-matching

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A crossmatch test is a test that determines the immunologic risk of a recipient with a potential donor by ensuring that there are no transplant-relevant circulating antibodies in the recipient directed against donor antigens.

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Graft vs Host-disease

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In case of Hemaetopoietic stemcell transplantation
* Foreign immune cells are transplanted
* Mature allogenic T cells (Graft) attack Host cells
GvHD means the graft reacts against the host. The graft is the marrow or stem cells from the donor. The host is the person having the transplant. GvHD happens when particular types of white blood cell (T cells) in the donated stem cells or bone marrow attack your own body cells.

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Pregnancy as an allograft

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From an immunologic viewpoint, the fetus with its paternal antigens may be considered a successful allograft in the maternal host. Understanding the basis of this host-allograft relationship remains a fundamental unsolved problem in transplantation immunobiology.

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Allograft

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The transplant of an organ, tissue, or cells from one individual to another individual of the same species who is not an identical twin.

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Immune suppression

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Antiinflammatory
* Cytotoxic
* Inhibitproliferation
* Inhibit T cell signalling
* Blockingco-stimulation
* Depletionofimmunecells

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Anti-inflammatory

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or antiphlogistic is the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation or swelling. Anti-inflammatory drugs, also called anti-inflammatories, make up about half of analgesics.
Corticosteroids
* anti-inflammatory drugs that alter the transcription of many genes
* Wide range of adverse effects

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T cell signaling

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It provides connection between T cell and the antigen-presenting cell (APC). TCRs activation promotes a number of signaling cascades that ultimately determine cell fate through regulating cytokine production, cell survival, proliferation, and differentiation.

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Monoclonal antibodies

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A type of protein that is made in the laboratory and can bind to certain targets in the body, such as antigens on the surface of cancer cells. There are many kinds of monoclonal antibodies, and each monoclonal antibody is made so that it binds to only one antigen.