Topic 6.7 Response To Infection Flashcards
What does innate mean
Non-specific
What are three main ways pathogens can enter our tissues?
Via our
- skin
- lungs
- intestines
How does the skin protect the body against pathogens?
- sebum contains fatty acids, toxic to microbes
- keratin stops bacterial growth
How do lungs / respiratory system protect the body against pathogens?
- mucus made by goblet cells : trap pathogens/microorganisms (bcs sticky)
- cilia, woft mucus, either spat out or destroy in stomach
What is the non-specific inflammatory response?
- 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
Why is prostaglandins useful in the innate response?
Increase blood pressure and flow
So more tissue fluids (including phagocytes) coming to the area
What is diapedesis?
capillaries become more permeable
What is an erythrocyte
Red blood cell
How do you know it’s a neutrophil?
It has a multi-lobe nucleus
What shape nucleus do macrophages have
Kidney shaped
What do lymphocytes usually look like (their nucleus shape)
Round nucleus
2 types of phagocytes
Neutrophils
Macrophages
What’s the difference between neutrophils and macrophages?
- 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
What is MHC
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)
What’s an antigen presenting cell
Antigen fragments bounded to MHC
What are cytokines
Cell signaling protein to recruit other cells
What does chemokines do
Induce chemitaxis
Recruit other phagocytes (macrophages)
What are the 2 types of lymphocytes
B or T
What do B and T lymphocytes have
Antigen-receptor molecules
Complementary to antigens
Each lymphocyte has only 1 type of antigen receptor (unique to cell types)
What is the difference between B and T lymphocytes?
B can release antigen receptor (aka antibodies) (also stays, does both) (become plasma cells)
T cannot, they only stay on cell
What is the humoral response 1?
- 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
How do intestines / digestive system protect the body against pathogens?
- stomach acids
- enzymes found in saliva, lysozymes
- gut microbiomes (flora) outcompete pathogens
What does histamine do?
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
What do prostaglandins do?
Increase blood flow to injured site
Why would prostaglandins cause oedema?
Because more tissue fluids are transported (?) to the injured site