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UNIT 4 - RESISTANCE & IMMUNITY Flashcards

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Granulocytes (3)

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  • Neutrophils
  • Eosinophils
  • Basophils
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Agranulocytes (2)

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  • Lymphocytes
  • Monocytes
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Importance of leucocyte count

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Each leucocyte has a definite purpose and seeing changes in specific types can help diagnose a problem

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Differential count

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Used in diagnosis of an infection/disease on basis of an increase or decrease in numbers of specific types of WBC

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Relative quantities of leucocytes in blood (5)

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  • Neutrophils (60-70%) - Lymphocytes (20-25%)
  • Monocytes (3-8%)
  • Eosinophils (2-4%)
  • Basophils (0.5-1%)
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Lymphatic system

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Group of organs, vessels, and tissues that protect us from infection and keeps a healthy balance of fluids throughout the body

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Plasma

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Fluid portion of blood

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Interstitial fluid

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Fluid between tissues and cells (bathes tissues)

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Lymph

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Fluid in lymphatic vessels (mostly interstitial fluid) that bring back fluid from body and drain into circulatory system through two ducts in neck region

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Lymph nodes

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Located in lymphatic vessels that contain WBC to filter and cleanse the lymph of pathogens and abnormal cells before returning to circulatory system

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Movement of lymphatic system (4)

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  • Interstitial fluid with the white blood cells enters lymphatic capillaries through small pores
  • Fluid inside lymphatic capillaries (lymph) flows through lymphatic vessels throughout body
  • Microbes and foreign particles present in circulating lymph encounter macrophages, dendritic cells, and lymphocytes that carry out various defensive actions within lymph nodes
  • Lymphatic vessels return lymph to the blood via 2 large ducts that drain into vein near neck/shoulders
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What happens to the majority of fluid that leaves the capillaries

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The majority of fluid that leaves the capillaries is returned to the circulatory system, but approximately 15% remain in tissues as part of interstitial fluid and blood volume in arteries is 15% more than veins

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What happens to this “lost fluid” and how is arterial volume restored

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Restored to the circulatory system through lymphatic system

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Functions of lymphatic system (4)

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  • Drains excess interstitial fluid to restore blood volume
  • Protects against invasion through immune responses
  • Transports dietary lipids and some vitamins from the gastrointestinal tract to the blood
  • Return tissue fluid back to circulatory system
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Drains excess interstitial fluid to restore blood volume

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One way transport system that drains fluid from all body tissues and returns it to the blood at the left and right subclavian veins

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Protects against invasion through immune responses

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Lymph pass through nodes that contain WBC and initiate defensive and immune responses

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Lymph

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Fluid in lymph vessels, mostly just interstitial fluid in lymphatic vessels that bring back fluid from body and drain into circulatory system through two ducts in neck region

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Nodes

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Oval/bean shaped swellings situated throughout lymphatic vessels to filter fluid within vessels

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2 ducts in neck region:

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  • Right lymphatic duct –> right subclavian vein
  • Thoracic duct –> left subclavian vein
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Structural characteristic of the circulatory system

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Moves as a circuit with a pump

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Structural characteristics of the lymphatic system

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One way system and has no pump. The movement of lymph is due to pressure differences aided by muscular action (smooth/skeletal) and forced through vessels

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Spleen

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Contains the largest amount of lymphoid tissue in body and controls the level of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets

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Tonsils

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Masses of lymphoid nodules in pharynx and functions in filtering and immunological role

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Thymus

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Small grainy lymphoid organ located behind sternum for maturating of certain WBC

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Resistance & immunity

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Refers to the body’s ability to protect itself from foreign substances and pathogens (avoid disease)

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2 major lines of defense of the immune system

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  • Innate (inherited) non specific resistance
  • Adaptive specific resistance
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Innate (inherited) non specific resistance

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First line of defense that provides protective mechanisms to all people and responds in the same way to all potential invaders

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Types of innate (inherited) non specific resistance:

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  • External defenses: skin & mucous membranes, body secretions
  • Internal defenses: antimicrobial proteins, phagocytosis, fever, inflammation
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Skin and mucous membrane

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Unbroken skin and mucous membranes act as mechanical barrier to bacteria and viruses

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Mucous

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Produced in respiratory tract to trap debris and germs swept out by cilia

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Gastric juice

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Acid and enzymes in the gut to kill off bacteria and virus

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Tears

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Flush the eyes to remove dirt and bacteria containing enzyme lysozyme

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Saliva

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Flushes inside of the mouth containing enzyme lysozyme and immunoglobin

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Sweat and oil

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Produced by the skin, where sweat flushes skin and deposits salt on skin surface and oil from sebaceous glands contain antimicrobial compounds

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Antimicrobial proteins

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Proteins present in plasma or produced by infected cells

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2 principle components of antimicrobial proteins

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  • Interferon
  • Complement
  • They are both also part of adaptive specific resistance
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Interferon

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Protein produced by infected cells that bind to surrounding non-infected cells and cause them to produce substances that interfere with viral replication

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Complement

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Protein produced by the liver found in plasma that bind to bacterial cells to attract phagocytes and cause holes in bacteria walls and consequent rupturing

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Phagocytosis

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Involves various white blood cells (macrophages, neutrophils, dendritic cells) that engulf foreign materials upon contact aided by complement proteins and fevers (phagocytes function better at high temperatures)

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Fever

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An abnormally high body temperature commonly occurring during infections

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Impact of a high temperature (4)

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  • Intensifies effect of interferon
  • Increases phagocytic action
  • Inhibits growth and multiplication of microbes
  • Speeds up bodies repair and resistance mechanisms
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Inflammation

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Response by the body to tissue damage due to injury and/or infection to prevent spread of infection and prepare the area for repair and destroy toxins

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Symptoms of inflammation (3)

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  • Localized pain
  • Swelling (caused by WBC releasing histamine, prostaglandin, complement, etc)
  • Redness/heat (caused by vasodilation and blood vessels more permeable so WBC move out quickly)
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Process of inflammation (3)

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  • Blood vessels dilate bringing increased blood flow to injury
  • Phagocytes migrate to the injury site and ingest microbes and other foreign substances
  • Lymphatic drainage removes dissolved poisonous substances for healing
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Antigen

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Something that is able to trigger an immune response if body is foreign to it (Create a defence)

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Antibodies

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Protein produced by immune system to fight against specific invaders (antigens) like bacteria or viruses

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2 characteristics of antigens:

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  • Immunogenicity
  • Reactivity
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Immunogenicity

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Ability to provoke immune response

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Reactivity

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Ability of antigen to react specifically with antibodies it provoked

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Epitope/antigen determinant

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Region/site on antigen that acts as unique identifying markers on antigens that the immune system uses to recognize and respond to foreign substances

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Adaptive specific resistance (4)

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  • Third line of defense that occurs in response to PARTICULAR pathogen that managed to get through all the non-specific defenses and unique to individual
  • Involves activation of immune system
  • Slower response as body must produce antibodies and active certain cells
  • Cannot get started without aid of nonspecific phagocytosis occurring in innate immune response
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Antigen presenting cells

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Phagocytic cells that initiate the process of adaptive specific resistance (eg. Dendritic cells, macrophages, activated B cells)

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Macrophages

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Produced through differentiation of monocytes and roam throughout the body particularly concentrated in skin, lungs, mucous membranes, and around the intestine (where pathogens are most likely to enter the body)

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Macrophages function (4)

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  • Phagocytose debris, foreign pathogens, dead/damaged cells
  • Release antimicrobial chemicals to attract leucocytes to site of infection
  • Present antigens to T cells and activate
  • Initiate inflammation by releasing molecules (cytokines) that activate other cells
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Immune response

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The production of specific cell types and antibodies

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Immunity

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Function of lymphocytes found mainly in lymphatic system + spleen, bone marrow, blood, gut, skin tissues

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2 categories of adaptive specific resistance

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Cell mediated and antibody mediated

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2 categories of lymphocytes

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B-lymphocytes (B-cells); humoral immunity and T-lymphocytes (T-cells); cellular immunity

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Humoral immunity (antibody-mediated)

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Involves production of antibodies (immunoglobins) that react with an antigen on invading organism, and works against extracellular pathogens in fluids outside cells

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Cellular immunity (cell-mediated)

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Production of cytotoxic T cells that directly attack the invading organisms, and are particularly effective against intracellular pathogens, some cancer cells and foreign tissue transplants

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B cells

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Develops in red bone marrow and produce antibodies found in general location but mostly in nodes and differentiates into plasma cells and memory cells

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Plasma cells

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Differentiated B cells capable of secreting immunoglobulin or antibodies by leaving lymph node and enter general circulation

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When is antibody production stopped

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When all foreign antigens are destroyed, the antibody production will slow and stop

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Memory B cells

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Can remember the recognized antigen to improve secondary response

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Are you forever immune if once infected

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No, immunity may decrease over time if the person is not challenged by that specific antigen

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Steps for antibodies to protect us from pathogens (5
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  1. Complement activation
  2. Ab dependant cell mediated toxicity
  3. Neutralization: antibody binds and blocks virus
  4. Agglutination: clumping of bacteria and reduces number of growth
  5. Opsonization: coats the antigen with antibodies to signal phagocyte (makes pathogen tasty)
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T cells

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Develops in red bone marrow, then migrate to Thymus and does not produce antibodies, but develops effector T helper cells and effector cytotoxic T cell

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Immunocompetence & immunotolerance

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Ability to carry out specific immune responses & distinguish “self” from “non-self”

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Cytotoxic T cell

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Direct killing of intracellular pathogens and elimination of mutated and cancerous cells

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Activation of cytotoxic T cell

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Activated when it recognizes an abnormal or infected cell/virus then kills it

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Helper T cell cells

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Directs by secreting, signalling proteins and activates

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Activation of helper T cells

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When macrophages eats an infected cell it presents a small amount of its antigen to signal and activate the helper T cell

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Memory T cells

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Can remember the recognized antigen to improve secondary response

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Cytokines

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Activates B cells, T cells, macrophages

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Interleukins

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Stimulates B & T cell reproduction

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Importance of cellular response (4)

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  • T cells recognize and respond to processed fragments of antigen displayed on surface of APC
  • Targets cells infected with viruses, bacteria, or intracellular parasites
  • Targets abnormal/cancerous cells
  • Targets cells of infused or transplanted foreign tissue
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Ways antibodies destroy/inactivate foreign substance in body (6)

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  • Direct opsonization
  • Indirect opsonization
  • Neutralizes
  • Complement system
  • Immobilizing bacteria
  • Activation of anaphylactic system
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Complement system

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Antibodies activate complement system consisting of blood proteins that help immune system

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Immobilizing bacteria

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Binds flagella making it harder for bacteria to spread

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Activation of anaphylactic system

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Allergic reaction involving IgE which helps to localize the invading agents by swelling tissue and attracting immune cells

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5 types of antibodies (6)

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  • IgG: Most common antibody in plasma
  • IgA: Most common antibody in mucous membrane
  • IgD: Has immunological functions
  • IgE: Killing of worm parasites and allergic reactions
  • IgM: Largest antibody and is the first to appear in response to initial exposure to antigen
  • Ig is short for immunoglobulin
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Immunization

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Process by which resistance to disease can be induced or augmented

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Induced

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Stimulating immunity of body to a specific disease that has not been encountered yet to prevent infection achieved through vaccinations (active immunization)

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Augmented

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Supplementing/boosting bodies own response to particular disease achieved through injection of specific antibodies (passive immunization)

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Types of active immunizations (3)

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  • Injection of dead organisms (eg, typhoid fever, diphtheria)
  • Injection of moified toxins (eg, tetanus, botulism)
  • Injection of live weakened organisms (Eg, measles, chicken pox)
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mRNA

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Teach our cells how to make a protein that triggers an immune response inside our bodies

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Immunological tolerance

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Ability for immune system to distinguish between self and non-self to prevents immune cells from attacking our own body’s proteins and tissues, generated during maturation of lymphocytes when B and T cells with reactivity to body’s own tissues die or inactivated

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Autoimmune disease

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Failure of the immunological tolerance

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Autoantibodies

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Antibodies that react with self-antigens (respond to body’s own proteins)

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Autoimmune disease general facts (3)

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  • Frequency 5% in North America, more common in females
  • Can be caused by production of autoantibodies (eg. Myasthenia gravis; targets neuromuscular junctions causing muscle weakness)
  • Activation of cytotoxic T cells (Type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, systematic lupus erythematosus)
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Rheumatoid arthritis

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Immune system attacks healthy cells in body by mistake and cause inflammation

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Addisons disease

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Immune system attacks adrenal glands and severely damage adrenal cortex which impacts production of steroid hormones cortisol and aldosterone

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AIDS (4)

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  • Prevalence of 38.4 million worldwide; 63,000 in Canada
  • HIV infects and kills helper T cells
  • After prolonged incubation period, opportunistic infections occur and cancer
  • Treatment is antiretroviral therapy
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Opportunistic infections

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Infections that occur more frequently and more severe in people with weakened immune systems (eg. Pneumonia)

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4 major types of blood in humans

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A, B, AB, O

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How is blood type determined (3)

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  • By the presence of specific proteins and attached carbohydrates
  • One group is attached to the RBC membrane: Antigen
  • Other group is found in the plasma: Antibodies/agglutinins
  • Antigens determine group group
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Type A blood

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A antigen, anti B antibody

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Type B blood

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B antigen, anti A antibody

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Type AB blood

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A & B antigen, no antibody

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Type O blood

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No antigen, Anti A & B antibody

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Agglutination and hemolysis

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Blood clotting that occurs if the RBC is placed into plasma that contains the opposite antibody and the destruction of RBC

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Blood transfusions:

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For any recipient to receive blood from a donor, there should be a direct match (A–>A, B–>B. O–>O. AB–>AB; preferable), or recipients plasma cannot contain the antibody that will cause the donor cells to agglutinate; in emergencies

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Recipient blood group A

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Possible donor is A or O

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Recipient blood group B

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Possible donor is B or O

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Recipient blood group AB

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Possible donor is AB, A, B, or O

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Recipient blood group O

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Possible donor is O

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Universal recipient

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Blood AB+

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Universal donor

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Blood O

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Rhesus (Rh) antigen

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Individuals with this antigen are Rh+, individuals without this antigen are Rh-. Most people are Rh+ and the Rh factor is important for pregnancy

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Do people have Rh antibodies

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No but if someone who is Rh- is exposed to Rh antigen, then the body will detect it as foreign and will make antibodies against it

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Rh factor in pregnancy (3)

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  • First pregnancy: Father is Rh+, mother is Rh-, baby is Rh+ (born fine). Prior to and during birth, some of the baby’s RBC leak into mothers circulation
  • Between pregnancy: Mother produces antibodies against Rh antigen from the baby
  • Second pregnancy: If baby is Rh+, antibodies from the mother cross the placenta and cause agglutination and destroy the RBC of baby = hemolytic disease of new born. However, if baby is Rh- (like mother) there is no problem
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Prevention of haemolytic disease of new born

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Giving the mother immunoglobulin treatment after 1st birth to prevent the antibody production

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A+

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Agglutination with Anti A and Anti Rh

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A-

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Agglutination with Anti A

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B+

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Agglutination with Anti B and Anti Rh

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B-

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Agglutination with Anti B

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AB+

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Agglutination with Anti A, Anti B and Anti Rh

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AB-

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Agglutination with Anti A and Anti B

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O+

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Agglutination with Anti Rh

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O-

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No agglutination

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