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Topic 6.7 Response To Infection Flashcards

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1
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What does innate mean

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Non-specific

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What are three main ways pathogens can enter our tissues?

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Via our
- skin
- lungs
- intestines

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How does the skin protect the body against pathogens?

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  • sebum contains fatty acids, toxic to microbes
  • keratin stops bacterial growth
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How do lungs / respiratory system protect the body against pathogens?

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  • mucus made by goblet cells : trap pathogens/microorganisms (bcs sticky)
  • cilia, woft mucus, either spat out or destroy in stomach
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What is the non-specific inflammatory response?

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  • innate, same response whatever the pathogen
  • localised response of tissues to damage
    1. Triggered when mast cells release histamine and prostaglandins
  • histamine causes dilation of venules or arterioles,diapedesis
  • more tissue fluids (with phagocytes) go towards injured site, so phagocytes can engulf
  • prostaglandins increase blood flow
    2. Sensory neurons become more sensitive
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Why is prostaglandins useful in the inflammatory response?

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Increase blood pressure and flow
So more tissue fluids (including phagocytes) coming to the area

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What is diapedesis?

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capillaries become more permeable

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What is an erythrocyte

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Red blood cell

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How do you know it’s a neutrophil?

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It has a multi-lobe nucleus

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What shape nucleus do macrophages have

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Kidney shaped

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What do lymphocytes usually look like (their nucleus shape)

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Round nucleus

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2 types of phagocytes

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Neutrophils
Macrophages

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What’s the difference between neutrophils and macrophages?

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  • N come out of capillaries, engulf pathogens
  • N dominate infected simple early / M at later stages
  • M does that, and adds another step
    • live longer , larger
    • can present antigenic fragments to T lymphocytes after engulfing
  • N has multi-lobe nucleus / M is big and kidney shaped nucleus
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What is MHC

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Proteins every cell has them - markers
Diff tissues have varying MHCs
Help cells identify it’s a self cell, not foreign (so won’t attack)

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What’s an antigen presenting cell

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Antigen fragments bounded to MHC

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What are cytokines

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Cell signaling protein to recruit other cells

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What does chemokines do

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Induce chemitaxis
Recruit other phagocytes (macrophages)

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What are the 2 types of lymphocytes

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B or T

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What do B and T lymphocytes have

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Antigen-receptor molecules
Complementary to antigens
Each lymphocyte has only 1 type of antigen receptor (unique to cell types)

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What is the difference between B and T lymphocytes?

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B can release antigen receptor (aka antibodies) (also stays, does both) (become plasma cells)
T cannot, they only stay on cell

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What is the humoral response 1?

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  • macrophage and B lymphocytes engulf pathogen
  • present their antigens on MHC to become APCs
  • T helpers activated when binding with macrophage antigen-MHC complex, producing more T helpers and memory
  • more T helpers bind with B-lymphs, secrete cytokines and activate
  • mitose and produce B effector cells > differentiate into either B memory or plasma
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How do intestines / digestive system protect the body against pathogens?

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  • stomach acids
  • enzymes found in saliva, lysozymes
  • gut microbiomes (flora) outcompete pathogens
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What does histamine do?

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histamine causes dilation of venules or arterioles: diapedesis (capillaries become more permeable)
more tissue fluids (with phagocytes) go towards injured site, so phagocytes can engulf

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What do prostaglandins do?

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Increase blood flow to injured site

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Why would prostaglandins cause oedema?

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Because more tissue fluids are transported (?) to the injured site

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What are 2 things that mast cells release?

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  • histamines
  • prostaglandins
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What are 2 types of phagocytes?

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Macrophages and neutrophils

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What turns into an Antigen presenting cell (APC) in humoral 1?

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Macrophages and B-cell

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What can release antigen receptors

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B lymphocytes

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What activates the B cell in humoral 1?

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T helper cells using cytokines

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What happens with B cells after activation with T cells

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Divide (via mitosis)
Into B-memory cells
OR effector cells that further differentiate into plasma cells, that can release antigen receptors

32
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What does MHC stand for and made of?

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Major Histocompatibility Complex
Glycoproteins within phospholipids bilayer, highly variable

33
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What are complement proteins?

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In plasma, activated by presence of pathogens
Happens at the same time as phagocytosis happens (before humoral, during inflammation)
- attract more phagocytes (like cytokines)
- opsonins binds to surface of membrane of foreign cells, water enters pores via osmosis, lyse
- aid attachment of phagocytes

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What is the process of phagocytosis? (4 steps)

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  1. phagocytes are attracted to chemicals produced by pathogens (chemotaxis)
  2. Receptors on phagocyte membrane attach to pathogen
  3. phagocyte engulfs pathogen in vesicle (phagosome)
  4. lysosome fuses w phagosome = phagolysosome
  5. release hydrolytic enzymes to digest pathogen
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Where are B and T lymphocytes made and mature?

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B- made, stay and mature in bone marrows (B-B)
T- made in bone marrows, mature in Thymus (T-T)

36
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Can T lymphocytes bind directly to pathogens?

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No
Can only bind to antigen presenting cells (APCs)

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What’s the point of antibodies?

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  • enhance phagocytosis (opsonisation)
  • activate more complement proteins (so more lysis)
  • can bind to toxins and neutralise them
  • reduces number of infectious units to be dealt with (Agglutination) (GLUE things tgt)
38
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What are 2 types of toxins by bacteria

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Endotoxin
and exotoxin

39
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What’s opsonisation

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Enhance phagocytosis

40
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What is humor in humoral?

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Body fluids
Since Antibodies released to body fluids
B lymphocytes only involved

41
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Humoral response cannot take place when…

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Virus has already injected itself into host cell

42
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Change in MHC of a self cell is considered a ….
How does it happen

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An APC
Due to mutation or replicating antigens in protein synthesis (?)

43
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What does T lymphocytes divide into in cell mediated immune response?

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T killer (cytotoxic cell)
T memory
More t helper

44
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What are T helper cell receptors called

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CD4 receptors

45
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What is the cell mediated immune response?

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When pathogens are inside host cells , antibodies aren’t effective
T-helper cells bind to APC and become activated + release cytokines
Divide into 3 types of cells (T-killer, T-helper, T-memory)

46
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How do T-killer cells destroy body cells infected by viruses (APC)?

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Destroy cells changed by mutation to form cancer cells or cells transplanted organ using perforin

47
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Unnecessary usage of antibiotics is a …

A

A selection pressure

48
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Explain why agglutination could take longer at low and at high concentrations of sperm cells? (2 marks)

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  • Bcs at low conc the collision between antibody and antigen is less frequent
  • bcs at high concs there may be insufficient antibodies
49
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If mention of antibodies, immediately think…

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Humoral response

50
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Compare and contrast cell mediated vs humoral response

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  • both use T cells
  • both produce memory cells
  • both involve cytokines
  • both are ACTIVE forms of immunity
  • T killer involved in cell mediated / not h
  • antibodies invoked in H / not c
  • antigen presentation in H by B cells / infected host cell present antigens in C (only when host cell is infected)
51
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Why are cytokines released in cell mediated response?

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To recruit T killer cells

52
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How are monoclonal antibodies made?

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  • inject antigen into mouse
  • trigger humoral response of mouse
  • extract plasma cells (that release complementary antibodies)
  • fuse with myeloma cells
  • hybridoma cells produced > divide and secrete antibodies
  • purify antibodies
53
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What are uses of monoclonal antibodies?

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  • cancer treatments
  • vaccine
  • tests (covid, pregnancy)
  • identify cancerous cells or blood clots (PET scans)
54
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What are the issues with using monoclonal antibodies made by mice plasma cells (B-lymphocytes)?

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  • foreign proteins to humans (attack w humoral!)
55
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What is humanising antibodies and why is it beneficial?

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Put specific antigen binding sites of mice onto human antibodies
- less foreign so less likely to reject
- complementary to target antigens so only attached to them
- have less side effects

56
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What is monoclonal antibody therapy?

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Using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to bind to specific cells or proteins
Stimulate patients’ immune system to attack those cells

57
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What can you put in vaccines?

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  • antigens
  • inactivated pathogens
  • antibodies
  • mRNA (so protein synthesis, produce antigen after cell mediated response, present antigen on MHC, host cell becoming APC)
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Outline the process of cell mediated response.

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  • complementary T helper lymphocytes bind to foreign antigen on APC
  • rapid mitosis takes place, become memory cells or trigger humoral
  • T killer cells produced, secrete perforin to destroy infected cells
59
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What are antibodies?

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Proteins secreted by plasma cells
complementary Antigen receptors

60
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Types of vaccine?

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  • inactivated pathogens
  • live attenuated (chemically modified, so doesn’t cause disease)
  • toxoids (modified toxins)
  • genetically modified DNA/mRNA
  • administered either by injection or orally
61
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Why is genetically modified DNA/mRNA vaccines trigger cell mediated response, not humoral?

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Because it has DNA and mRNA has to be transcribed and reached host cell
Cell mediated tackles host cells that have been injected by pathogens

62
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What response is specific

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Humoral
Cell mediated

63
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What response is nonspecific?

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Inflammatory

64
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how does a macrophage become an antigen presenting cell? (2 marks)

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  • binding of antigen to receptor on T helper cell
  • antigen presented surface of MHC of macrophage
    EDIT: DOESNT MAKE SENSE???
65
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what is the definition of immunity?

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ability of the body to protect from infection and disease

66
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what is the definition of pathogen? and what could they be?

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a microorganism that causes disease
-virus/bacteria/protist/fungus

67
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what is the definition of infection?

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where pathogens have invaded the body cells or tissues

68
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what is the definition of antigen? what could they be made of?

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a glycoprotein/protein/polysaccharide
often found on outside of a cell that triggers an immune response

69
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what are the 2 types of non specific immune responses?

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phagocytosis
inflammatory

70
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what are the 2 types of specific immune responses?

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  • humoral
  • cell mediated
71
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what do lysosymes do?

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destroy bacteria by hydrolysing the peptidoglycan in their cell walls

72
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what is phagocytosis?

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engulfing pathogen (followed by digestion)
binding of pathogen/antigen to phagocytic cell
and engulfing in a vesicle (phagosome)

73
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where are phagosomes made?

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cell surface membrane of phagocytic cell

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