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Nonspecific Host Defenses
Test Four
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 3
03/13/2013

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What must be compromised if bugs were to enter?
Definition
skin and mucous membranes
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What line of defense is specific?
Definition
third ( first and second are nonspecific )
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TF Nonspecific will attack with the same intensity every time it attacks
Definition
T
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What are the nonspecific host defense mechanisms? 6
Definition
mechanical/physical barriers, chemical factors, microbial antagonism by normal flora, fever, inflammatory response, phagocytic white blood cells
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What is the first line of defense?
Definition
skin and mucous membranes
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What are the chemical factors of skin and mucous membranes?
Definition
dryness, acidity, fatty acids, perspiration, and mucous
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What do you find in mucous membranes?
Definition
tons of antibacterials (lysozyme, lactoferrin, lactoperoxidases
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what are all the "first line of defense"
Definition
skin and mucous membranes, respiratory system, digestive system, GI tract, microbial antagonism
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What structures in the respiratory system help it to be a first line of defense
Definition
hair, mucous membranes, sinuses, cilia, phagocytes, lysozymes
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What helps the stomach be a first line of defense? 4 things
Definition
digestive enzymes, acidity of stomach, alkalinity of intestines, bile
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What helps the GI trat be a first line of defense
Definition
flushing by urine, acidity of vagina
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What does microbial antagonism do?
Definition
prevents the colonization of new arrivals
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What does microbial antagonism create?
Definition
competition for colonization sites
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What produces bateriocins?
Definition
microbial antagonism
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Define second line of defense (still nonspecific immunity)
Definition
cellular, chemical responses
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What can be a symptom of the second line of defense?
Definition
fever
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When are interferons produced? and what are they
Definition
second line of defense, they are a class of molecules that all tissue can produce for defense
Term
When is the complement system activated?
Definition
second line of defense
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When does inflammation occur?
Definition
second line of defense
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When do phagocytes undergo chemotaxis?
Definition
second line of defense
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When does phagocytosis occur?
Definition
second line of defense
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What synthesizes transferrin?
Definition
the liver
Term
What stores and delivers iron to cells?
Definition
transferrin
Term
What hold iron hostage and deprives pathogen of it?
Definition
transferrin
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What stimulates fever?
Definition
pyrogens
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What stimulates activity of WBCs
Definition
pyrogens ( or fever )
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What reduces plasma iron?
Definition
pyrogens ( or fever )
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What is interleukin-1
Definition
chemical messengers that coordinates immune response that tells there is a problem
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What slows down and kills pathogens?
Definition
fever
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What causes the achey feeling when you're sick?
Definition
interferons
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Define interferons
Definition
small, antiviral proteins (made in response to a viral cell)
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What produces interferons?
Definition
virus-infected cells
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What two things do interferons prevent?
Definition
virus replication in non-infected cells and the spread of the virus
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What is the complement system?
Definition
a group of ~30 proteins in blood plasma that complements specific activity of the immune system
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What is the complement cascade?
Definition
The interaction of the 30 proteins occurs in a stepwise manner
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What are the major consequences of the complement system?
Definition
initiation and amplification of inflammation, attraction of phagocytes to sites where they are needed, activation of leukocytes, lysis of bacteria and other foreign cells, increaesd phagocytosis by phagocytic cells
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Where do you find acute phase proteins
Definition
in plasma
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What do acute phase proteins do?
Definition
enhance resistance to infection. They increase in response to infection, inflammation, tissue damage
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What do acute phase proteins promote?
Definition
tissue repair
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What is C-reactive protein
Definition
It helps to intensify the preparation process
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What do cytokines do?
Definition
help to coordinate the response of the immune system
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Define cytokines
Definition
chemical messengers released from many types of cells
Term
What allows cells to communicate?
Definition
cytokines
Term
What causes some type of response in the cell sensing the it?
Definition
cytokines
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What is inflammation?
Definition
response to local injury, irritation, microbial invasion, or bacterial toxins
Term
What are the three major events of inflammation?
Definition
increase in capillary diameter, increased permeability of capillaries, egress of leukocytes
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What helps to keep infection localized
Definition
inflammation
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What prevents the spread of microbial invaders?
Definition
inflammation
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What neutralizes toxins?
Definition
inflammation
Term
what aids in tissue repair
Definition
inflammaion
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What is phagocytosis?
Definition
surrounding and ingesting foreign material
Term
What are the 3 granulocytes?
Definition
neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils
Term
What are macrophages
Definition
Really agressive, they do better than PMNs.
Term
What are the 4 steps to phagocytosis?
Definition
chemotaxis, attachment, ingestion, digestion
Term
Leukocidin
Definition
will kill off phagocytes
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What are the 5 ways to avoid phagocytosis?
Definition
capsules, leukocidin, waxes in cell walls, inactivate phagolysosome, prevent fusion of lysosome and phagosome
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