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What must be compromised if bugs were to enter? |
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skin and mucous membranes |
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What line of defense is specific? |
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third ( first and second are nonspecific ) |
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TF Nonspecific will attack with the same intensity every time it attacks |
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What are the nonspecific host defense mechanisms? 6 |
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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? |
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skin and mucous membranes |
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What are the chemical factors of skin and mucous membranes? |
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dryness, acidity, fatty acids, perspiration, and mucous |
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What do you find in mucous membranes? |
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tons of antibacterials (lysozyme, lactoferrin, lactoperoxidases |
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what are all the "first line of defense" |
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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 |
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hair, mucous membranes, sinuses, cilia, phagocytes, lysozymes |
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What helps the stomach be a first line of defense? 4 things |
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digestive enzymes, acidity of stomach, alkalinity of intestines, bile |
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What helps the GI trat be a first line of defense |
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flushing by urine, acidity of vagina |
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What does microbial antagonism do? |
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prevents the colonization of new arrivals |
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What does microbial antagonism create? |
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competition for colonization sites |
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What produces bateriocins? |
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Define second line of defense (still nonspecific immunity) |
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cellular, chemical responses |
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What can be a symptom of the second line of defense? |
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When are interferons produced? and what are they |
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second line of defense, they are a class of molecules that all tissue can produce for defense |
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When is the complement system activated? |
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When does inflammation occur? |
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When do phagocytes undergo chemotaxis? |
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When does phagocytosis occur? |
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What synthesizes transferrin? |
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What stores and delivers iron to cells? |
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What hold iron hostage and deprives pathogen of it? |
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What stimulates activity of WBCs |
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What reduces plasma iron? |
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chemical messengers that coordinates immune response that tells there is a problem |
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What slows down and kills pathogens? |
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What causes the achey feeling when you're sick? |
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small, antiviral proteins (made in response to a viral cell) |
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What produces interferons? |
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What two things do interferons prevent? |
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virus replication in non-infected cells and the spread of the virus |
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What is the complement system? |
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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? |
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The interaction of the 30 proteins occurs in a stepwise manner |
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What are the major consequences of the complement system? |
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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 |
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What do acute phase proteins do? |
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enhance resistance to infection. They increase in response to infection, inflammation, tissue damage |
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What do acute phase proteins promote? |
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What is C-reactive protein |
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It helps to intensify the preparation process |
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help to coordinate the response of the immune system |
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chemical messengers released from many types of cells |
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What allows cells to communicate? |
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What causes some type of response in the cell sensing the it? |
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response to local injury, irritation, microbial invasion, or bacterial toxins |
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What are the three major events of inflammation? |
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increase in capillary diameter, increased permeability of capillaries, egress of leukocytes |
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What helps to keep infection localized |
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What prevents the spread of microbial invaders? |
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what aids in tissue repair |
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surrounding and ingesting foreign material |
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What are the 3 granulocytes? |
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neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils |
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Really agressive, they do better than PMNs. |
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What are the 4 steps to phagocytosis? |
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chemotaxis, attachment, ingestion, digestion |
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What are the 5 ways to avoid phagocytosis? |
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capsules, leukocidin, waxes in cell walls, inactivate phagolysosome, prevent fusion of lysosome and phagosome |
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