Week 4 - Immune System Flashcards
What is the function of the immune system?
Target and destroy pathogens
What is a pathogen?
Microbes + viruses that cause disease
What is a non-pathogenic microbe called
Commensal microbes
What is the microbiota
Non-pathogenic microbes of the body
What is innate immunity? Name an example
Defense in ALL animals
ex: Barrier defences, NK cells
What is the chitin exoskeleton?
Innate immunity of invertebrate. Protects against intruding microorganisms
What are hemocytes?
Phagocytic cells that recognize pathogens on their cell surface.
Then hemocyte fuses with a vacuole that has enzymes in it. Then it’s exported out by exocytosis
What is an antimicrobial peptide?
Released by some hemocytes. Can poke through plasma membrane of pathogens and cause them to lyse.
What is lyse?
Contents of the cell spill out
Name the two main innate defences of invertebrates
Chitin exoskeleton, hemocytes
What do lymph vessels do?
Link body tissues with organs associated to immune system.
MAMMALS
How do lymphatic vessels work?
Blunt ends pick up the interstitial fluid AND pathogens. One-way valves move everything unidirectionally. Lymph nodes clear the fluid of pathogens and then it drains back into the circulatory system
Where does the fluid from the top right quarter of the body go
Right subclavanian vein
Where does the fluid from the top left and bottom half of the body go
Left subclavanian vein
Name primary tissues of the immune systems. Why are they primary?
Bone marrow, thymus.
This is where cells of the immune system develop and mature
Name secondary tissues of the immune system
Adenoid gland, tonsils, spleen, appendix, large intestine, peyer’s patch
Name barrier defences of vertebrates
Skin, mucus membranes of different tracts, secretions from glands
What is the mucus elevator?
In respiratory tract, beating cillia of cells move up pathogens up to the pharynx to be swallowed. This prevents pathogens from reaching the alveoli
What are TLR (toll-like receptors)?
Recognize the proteins, lipids, etc that are on the cell surface of pathogenetic microbes
What happens after TLR recognizes a pathogen?
They are phagocytized and destroyed
What does toll mean? (TLR)
Amazing
What are leukocytes?
White blood cells
Which cells are leukocytes derived from?
Stem cells in bone marrow
Name the leukocytes
Neutrophils
Monocytes
Basophils
Lymphocytes
Eosinophils