Types III and IV Hypersensitivity - Hunter Flashcards
What type of immune reactant is used in type 3?
IgG
What type of antigen is used in type 3?
soluble Ag
What is the effector mechanism of type 3?
Complement, phagocytes
What are two notable type 3 reactions?
serum sickness and arthus reaction
What is the most sensitive organ to immune complexes?
kidney
High dose intravenous ag will result in what three reactions?
Vasculitis, nephritis,k and arthritis. Immune complexes deposited in blood vessel walls, glomeruli, and joint spaces
Subcutaneous ag delivery will result in what reaction?
Arthus reaction, immune complex deposited in perivascular area
Inhaled ag delivery will result in what reaction?
Farmer’s lung; deposition in alveolar-capillary interface
What is the visible finding of small scale vascular damage? Large scale?
Petechia is small, purpura is large
Do you get immune complex disorders with Ab or Ag excess?
Ag excess
when in the course of an infection do you have Ag excess?
early on in the infection
why do the Ag complexes not fix C early in the infection?
they are numerous, but too small to fix C
Immune Complexes Bind to RBCs and are Cleared by (blank)
Mononuclear Phagocytes
C3b/C4b bound to immune complexes binds CR1 on (blank)
RBCs
Splenic macrophages and liver Kupffer cells have (blank) receptors that engage immune complexes on RBCs
Fc
T/F: The immune complexes are stripped and destroyed from RBCs in the spleen, then the intact RBCs return to the circulation
true
What event do you need to be able to deposit immune complexes in arterial walls?
turbulent flow
where do immune complexes like to deposit
renal glomeruli and small vasculature of skin and joints–hence purpura and vasculitis
Immune complexes deposit (between/on top of) endothelial cells
between
Complement is activated by immune complexes on vasculature by releasing (blank)
anaphylatoxins C3a andC5a
What cells are recruited to immune complex plaques?
neutrophils
What do the attracted neutrophils do that actually causes the vasculitis in immune complex deposition?
frustrated phagocytosis leading to granule exocytosis, causing inflammation and tissue destruction
Describe what happens when an immune complex binds to endothelium?
- Activate complement allowing C3b to opsonize the immune complex
- Release of anaphylatoxins C3a andC5a which chemoattract neutrophils
- Frustrated phagocytosis results in granule release
What clinical findings do we see when we have immune complex deposition in the glomerulus? Why?
Hematuria and proteinuria; frustrated phagocytosis broke down the glomerular integrity allowing protein and blood into the urine
What is the most common post-infecious acute proliferative nephritis?
Post-strep glomerulonephritis
Does Post-strep glomerulonephritis have a good or bad prognosis?
good
How do patients present with post-strep glom.?
hematuria and proteinuria, elevated specific gravity
Why does the glomerulus become hypercelluar in post-strep glom?
neutrophil infiltration and proliferation of intrinsic glomerular cells