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1
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What is innate immunity?

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Nonspecific

2
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Why do many diseases that affect animals, e.g., hog cholera, cattle plague, distemper, etc., do not affect man.

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Innate immunity

3
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Acquired immunity is a special immune system response that, after the first invasion will do what?

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will produce cells and substances attack and destroy the organism or toxin

4
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It may be humoral (antibodies), cell mediated (sensitized lymphocytes), or interferon (a hormone like messenger that has anti-viral effects). Are examples of A)Acquired immunity B)Innate immunity.

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Acquired immunity

5
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The body has the ability to resist almost all types of what?

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organisms or toxins that tend to damage the tissues and organs.

6
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By complex recognition mechanisms, which discriminate between?

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“self” and “Non-self” on the basis of chemical structure

7
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By complex recognition mechanisms, which discriminate between “self” and “Non-self” on the basis of chemical structure, the immune process generates what?

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cellular mediated immunity-CMI and Ab and interferon to bind and destroy the alien.

8
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The foreign substance that invades the body is called ?

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antigen (Ag)

9
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What is termed the immune response?

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Antigen and the generation of defender cells (CMI) and molecules (Ab) and interferon (IF)

10
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Antigens are usually proteins that are?

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free floating or attached to the surface of infectious agents.

11
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What elicit a specific immune response?

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Antigens

12
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Antigenicity depends on what?

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regularly recurring molecular groups, called epitopes, on the surface of large molecule.

13
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Antigens can elicit the production of ?

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a) Humoral (Ab)
b) Cell Mediated Immunity (CMI)
c) Immunologic unresponsiveness (Tolerance) to ones own Ag

14
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A complete Ag will do what?

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(1) stimulate Ab or CMI and/or interferon (2) react with Ab

15
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T & B lymphocytes Have their origin in a common what?

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hematopoietic stem cell in the bone marrow that differentiate to form lymphocytes

16
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Before distribution to lymphatic tissue, T-lymphocytes are processed?

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in mammals in the thymus gland.

17
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For B-lymphocytes before distribution to tissue is process where?

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the sites are the fetal liver, spleen, and bone marrow

18
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Which lymphocyte is Involved in cellular mediated immunity?

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T- lymphocytes

19
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Formation of large number of T- lymphocytes to do what?

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destroy the foreign substances (antigen).

20
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There are four types of T lymphocytes:

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Helper cells; most numerous (75%)
Cytotoxic T cells (killer cells)
Suppressor T cells
Memory T cells

21
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Cytotoxic T cells are also called what?

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Killer Cells

22
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Which T-Lymphocyte is most numerous?

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Helper Cells

23
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There are two subclasses of Helper T-Cells and they are?

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1 and 2) of helper T cells .

24
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TH1 is concerned with?

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cellular immunity

25
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TH2 interact mainly with?

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B-lymphocytes.

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Why do TH2 interact mainly with B-Lymphocytes?

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To enhance B-cell and T-cell activity.

27
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although B cells can produce antibodies in the absence of T- cells, there is usually cooperation with which cells?

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cooperation with T- cells

28
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Helper T cells are involved in the recognition of _______ and in the stimulation of ________ to produce antibodies.

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antigens, B lymphocytes

29
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Helper T Cells produce IL2, which serves as what?

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a lymphocytic growth factor and modulates immune responses

30
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Suppressor T cells (tolerance) suppress which responses?

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both humoral and cellular-immune responses.

31
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Suppressor T-Cells regulate the activity?

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of helper , killer T cells and also regulate the production of antibodies by B cells.

32
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Suppressor T-Cells prevent the immune system from doing what?

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attacking its own body tissues (autoimmune disease)

33
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Cytotoxic T-cells (killer cells) have receptors that bind where?

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bind to specific antigen

34
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What happens when Cytotoxic T-Cells bind on to a specific antigen?

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cytotoxic substances are released into the foreign cells

35
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How do Killer cells kill foreign invaders?

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by producing H2O2 from their lysosomal enzymes (peroxidases, phosphotases, and oxygenases), as the macrophages do.

36
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The cytotoxic T cells also attack cells of transplanted what?

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organs or other cells foreign to the body

37
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The body‘s immune system recognizes when a cell ?

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changes from its normal self to a neoplastic (cancerous)

38
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Cytotoxic T cells attack and destroy what kind of cells?

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cancer cells.

39
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Memory T- cells (and B- cells) help in retaining what?

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the capacity of T & B cells to respond to the same antigen in producing antibodies when exposed at a later date.

40
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Early lymphocyte progenitor cell which migrates out of the what to do what?

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bone marrow to populate peripheral lymphoid tissue

41
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What upon proper stimulation produces B-lymphocytes?

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Early lymphocyte progenitor cell.

42
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Concerned with humoral immunity. B-cell produce what kind of cells and what are they known for?

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plasma cells (short lived)

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What do plasma cells produce?

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antibodies against extracellular bacteria and viruses.

44
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B-Lymphocytes Differentiate into 2 types of cells?

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plasma cells (produce antibodies) and B memory cells

45
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Antibodies inactivate antigens by what?

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  • agglutination
  • precipitation
  • neutralization by covering toxic sites
  • and lysis, causing rupture of the cells of the foreign invader.
46
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Complement system enhance B-cell’s ability to do what?

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fight foreign invaders.

47
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What is Opsonization:

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Antigen is covered with antibody and become a target for neutrophils and macrophages

48
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What is hemotaxis:

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complement products attract neutrophils and macrophages

49
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Agglutination, lysis and activation of basophils and mast cells are examples of what?

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humoral immunity

50
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A third type of lymphocyte found in the body ?

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the natural killer cell (NK cell)

51
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What differ from B & T cells?

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NK Cell

52
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NK cell are specific or non specific?

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They are non-specific killer cells.

53
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They are large lymphocytes that makeup 10-15% of the circulating mononuclear cells. What are they?

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NK-Cell

54
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NK cells are the First line of defense against viral infections, combating the spread of disease while the more specific what are activated?

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T and B cell responses are activated. They are part of innate immunity

55
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What are Cytokines ?

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are soluble substances produced by cells and which have various effects on other cells.

56
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Substances produced by one type of leukocyte and which affect other leukocytes are interleukins are what?

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Cytokines

57
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Lymphokines are what?

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(the soluble products) produced by lymphocytes

58
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monokines are produced by?

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monocytes/macrophages.

59
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For activation of T cells the antigen must be what?

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presented by other cells such As macrophages and even B cells.

60
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These accessory or antigen-presenting cells (APC) play a crucial role in what?

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processing a polypeptide-breaking it down intracellularly to smaller peptide fragments

61
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As a consequence of T-cell activation what happens?

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many different cytokines are produced.

62
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These cytokines have profound effects not only on the proliferation and differentiation of T-cell, but also where?

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also on the activation and growth of many different cell types.

63
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B-cell activation results in the release of what?

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release of the antigen-specific receptor Ig, which binds to free antigen.

64
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Binding of the B-cell receptor to antigen is not sufficient to do what?

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activate the B cell; other factors appear to be necessary for activation

65
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Two factors in particular, IL-4 and IL-5, secreted by _____ _ ___, are involved in the further what?

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activated T cells, proliferation of B cells and their differentiation into antibody-secreting plasma cells

66
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Interferon-gamma (IFN-g): Synthesized by ?

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activated T cells.

67
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IFN-g activates what kind of cells?

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killer T cells,natural killer (NK) cells, and macrophages.

68
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What is interferon ?

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is a hormone like messenger that has anti-viral effects.

69
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What is Agranulocytosis:

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Inability of bone marrow to produce WBC (drug poisoning or irradiation). Body is left unprotected (such as respiratory infection)

70
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What is Leukemia:

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cancerous production of WBCs.

71
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How many types of leukemia are there?

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Lymphogenous and mylogenous

72
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What is lymphogenous?

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( excessive production of lymphocytes ),

73
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What is Myelogenous?

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(excessive production of WBCs other than Lymphocytes)

74
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Cancerous cells invade tissues causing pain. They grow at the expense of tissue or cells and cause what?

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( Severe anemia and bleeding tendency)