Week 7 - Exam prep

Question 1

Monocytes and Macrophages

Answer 1

circulate in blood for 24 hours
long lived - mitochondria
1st to respond – orchestrates a response
chronic inflammation

Question 2

Neutrophils

Answer 2

short lived - 5 days
WBC
Major in acute inflammation
killing pyogenic bacteria and fungi

Question 3

Eosinophills

Answer 3

Allergic disease - release histamine
some phagocytic activity

Question 4

Basophils and Mast cells

Answer 4

release granules when binds to C3a and C5a
causes adverse symptoms of allergy
acute inflammation

Question 5

Natural killer cells

Answer 5

non-phagocytic
target virally infected and tumour cells

Question 6

Mediators

Answer 6

Question 7

Lymphocytes - B cells

Answer 7

Responsible for making antibodies
Present antigen

Question 8

Helper T cells

Answer 8

enhance the production of antibodies by B cells.
Recruits macrophages

Question 9

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes

Answer 9

kill virus and tumour cells

Question 10

regulatory t cells

Answer 10

required for immunological tolerance,
shut down T cell mediated imunity towards the end of a reaction to restore homeostasis