Ch 14 Innate Immune Response – Flashcards

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What type of immunity is nonspecific, and 1st & 2nd line of defense?
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Innate immunity
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What is acquired immunity?
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3rd line of defense, specific
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What are the three types of first line defense?
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Mechanical, chemical, and normal flora factors.
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The skin, mucous membrane, and glands make up which factor of 1st line defense?
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Mechanical
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The Epidermis consists of tightly packed cells and is covered in what protective protein?
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Keratin
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What is the ciliary escalator?
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Part of the mucous membrane, Microbes trapped in mucous and transported away from the lungs
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What flows out of the mucous membrane?
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Urine and vaginal secretions
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What two glands aid in mechanical factors of defense?
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Lacrimal apparatus (wash eye) and saliva (wash microbes off)
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What do the sebaceous glands of the skin secrete?
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Sebum: fatty acids with a pH of 3-5
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What is the pH of the gastric juices of the stomach?
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acidic pH of 1.2-3
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What does perspiration, tears, saliva, and tissue fluids secrete?
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Lysozymes and peroxidase enzymes
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What two things compete for the binding of iron? (chemical factors)
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Transferrins in blood compete with bacteria
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What inhibits ATP production of bacteria?
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Nitric Oxide (NO)
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What is Normal Flora?
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Microorganisms found growing on or in the body of a healthy individual
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Name the 3 types of symbiotic relationships between microbes and a host.
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synergism(mutualism)-both organisms benefit
commensalism-one benefits, the other is unharmed
antagonism(parasitism)-one benefits at the others expense
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Name the four main components of the second-line defense of the body.
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White blood cells
phagocytosis
other blood components
lymphatic system
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What white blood cells play a role in 2nd line defense?
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Granulocytes, mononuclear phagocytes(monocytes), lymphocytes
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inflammation, fever, and the complement system make up what portion of 2nd line defense?
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Other blood components
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What is the highest population of WBC what role do they play?
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Neutrophils, 60-70% phagocytic, first responders to the damage
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What makes up the lowest population of WBC what is their role?
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Basophils, .5-1% Produce histamine, send signals
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Which white blood cell makes up 2-4% what do they do?
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Eosinophils. Toxic to parasites, allergic reactions, some phagocytosis
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Which WBC is phagocytic when mature, can be wondering or fixed, and makes up 3-8% of the population?
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Monocytes
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Describe lymphocytes.
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Involved in specific immunity, 20-25% of WBC's
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What do macrophages do?
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antigen presenting cells
-produce cytokines
-interact with T-helper cells
-help form granulomas
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What is the first step in the process of phagocytosis?
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Cells are recruited to the infection
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What happens during recognition/attachment? (step 2)
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receptors bind microbes
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What happens during engulfment? (step 3)
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cell "eats" microbe forming phagosome
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what is the last step in the process of phagocytosis?
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exocytosis: phagocyte expels digested material to external environment
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What step involves the microbe killed due to lack of oxygen and decreased pH?
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Destruction and digestion
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What is phagosome lysosome fusion? (step 4)
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Phagosome binds lysosome, forming phagolysosome
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What do red blood cells and platelets do?
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Important role in inflammatory response and blood clotting
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What proteins make up plasma and serum?
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albumin and globulin(gamma portion contains antibodies)
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What two things are a part of the complement system and are interferons(glycoproteins)?
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Plasma and serum
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What are the cardinal signals of inflammation?
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Redness, pain, heat, swelling(edema),
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Microbial products trigger what?
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Toll-like receptors of macrophages. (listen to damaged cells)
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What can the microbial cell surface trigger?
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Complement cascade
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What allows blood to get to places faster and is caused by histamine, kinins, prostaglandins, and leukotrienes?
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Vasodilation
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What happens during inflammation as a result of positive chemotaxis?
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margination and emigration of WBC's
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What does histamine do?
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Vasodilation, increased permeability of blood vessels
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What does kinkins do?
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Vasodilation, increased permeability of blood vessels, and chemotaxis
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Which hormone intensifies histamine and kinkin effects?
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Prostaglandins
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Which hormone causes increased permeability of blood vessels and phagocytic attachment?
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Leukotrienes
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What is apoptosis?
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Programmed CELL death - destroys the cell without eliciting inflammatory response
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What is a physiological response to infections?
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Fever
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Pyrogens can be endogenous and exogenous. Describe both types.
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-Endogenous are produced by our bodies and are fever inducing cytokines
-exogenous are caused by bacteria, bacterial endotoxins
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What part of the brain controls temperature?
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Hypothalamus
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What is released to reset the hypothalamus to a high body temperature?
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prostaglandins
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The body increases the rate of metabolism and shivering to?
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raise body temperature and cause cells to be more efficient
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What effect does 1 degree Celsius change have on metabolic activity?
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Becomes 10% more efficient
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What does a high temperature inhibit?
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Pathogen growth
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What is the complement system?
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Series of inactive proteins (C1-C9) circulating in blood and fluids that strengthens activities of adaptive immunity.
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What initiates the cascade of enzymatic reactions?
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stimulation of inactive proteins. Results in rapid activation of components
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What are the three pathways of activation?
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classical, alternative, lectin
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Which pathway requires antibodies for activation?
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Classical
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What occurs during classical pathway activation?
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Antibodies interact with complement C1 which activates protein and leads to activation of all complex proteins
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Which pathway of activation is the most efficient?
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classical
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Which pathway of activation is quickly and easily initiated and relies on binding of complement protein C3b to cell surface and what does this allow?
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alternative pathway, allows formation of complement complex
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C3b is always circulating in the blood T or F
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True
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What does the lectin pathway require to activate?
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mannan-binding lectins (MBL)
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The lectin pathway has a pattern recognition molecules that detect mannan which is a
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polymer of mannose found in microbial cells
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How does the lectin pathway activate complement proteins?
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MBL attaches to surface
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What do Alpha and Beta interferons (IFNs) cause?
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Cells to produce antiviral proteins that inhibit viral replication
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What type of IFN causes neutrophils and macrophages to phagocytize bacteria?
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Gamma IFN
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