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Lymphatics and Immune System

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Lymphatic System

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network of vessels and various lymphoid tissues and organs scattered throughout body

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Major Components of the Lymphatic System

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1. Lymph
2. Lymphatic Vessels
3. Lymphatic/Lymphoid Tissues
4. Lymphoid Organs

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Lymph

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Protein-containing interstitial fluid/extra cellular fluid that has entered the lymphatic vessels

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Lymphatic Vessels

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System of drainage vessels that collects excess protein-containing interstitial fluid & returns to blood stream

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Lymphatic/Lymphoid Tissues

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Aggregates of lymphocytes (white blood cells) and macrophages interspersed throughout the body

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Lymphoid Follicles

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Densely-packed reticular elements & cells

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Lymphoid Organs

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Produce and/or house immune system cells (lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, tonsils, others)

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Functions of Lymphatic Systems

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1. Fluid Recovery
2. Immune System Function
3. Lipid Absorption

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Fluid Recovery

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Returns fluid filtered from blood capillaries to blood stream

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Immune System Function

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Houses immune system cells that monitor body fluids for foreign or abnormal substances

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Lipid Absorption

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Special lymph vessels absorb lipids from digest system

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Lymphatic Ducts

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Receive lymph from covering lymphatic trunks

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Right Lymphatic Duct

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Drains lymph from upper arm, right side of head, right thorax and empties into right subclavian vein

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Thoracic Duct

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Drains lymph from rest of body and empties into left subclavian vein

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Lymphoid Tissue

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Provides residence and sit of proliferation for lymphocytes and allows immune surveillance of infusing lymph by lymphocytes and macrophages

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Tonsils

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In pharyngeal region; have crypts to trap and survey incoming material

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Thymus

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In thorax, most active during youth; strinks to fibrous mass in adults and maturation of lymphocytes

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Spleen

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Curves around left side of stomach; red blood cell graveyard and fetal red blood cell production

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Peyer's Patches & Appendix

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Limit/control bacterial growth

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What are the two intrinsic defense systems to provide immunity?

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Innate (Nonspecific) Defense System & Adaptive (Specific) Defense System

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Innate Defense System

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Defense against all foreign substances.

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Adaptive Defense System

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Mounts defensive responses specific against specific foreign substances. Takes Longer to enact but has memory.

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Innate & Adaptive Defense System

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Both worth independently and together to protect body from infectious microorganisms, cancer cells, transplanted organs, mismatched blood.

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Surface Barriers

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Skin & Mucosea. Physical barriers to keep pathogens out of body. Secretions of these barriers also resist pathogens:
1. acidity of secretions of skin, vagina
2. HCl and digestive enzymes of stomach mucosa
3. Lysozyme of saliva and tears
4. Mucous and defensin proteins of mucosae

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Internal Defenses

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Cells, Inflammation, Antimicrobial Proteins, Fever.

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Phagocytes

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Cells that engulf and digest foreign particles. Macrophages and Neutrophils

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Macrophages

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"Big Eaters" derived from monocytes

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Phagocytosis

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Mechanism of engulfment of large foreign particle. Key is initial adherence/recognition/binding. Enhanced by opsinization.

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Opinization

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Coating with marker (i.e. antibody)

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Steps of Phagocytosis

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1. Phagocyte adheres to microbe.
2. Phagocyte forms pseudopods that eventually engulf the particle.
3. Phagocytic vesicle is fused with a lysosome.
4. Microbe in fused vesicle is killed and digested by lysosomal enzymes within the phagolysosome, leaving residual body.
5. Indigestible and residual material is removed by exocytosis.

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Natural Killer Cells

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Subset of lymphocytes. Contact cells and check their identity, lyse and kill cancer cells or virus-infected cells, and induce apoptosis in target cells.

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Eosinophils

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Release killing substance from cytoplasmic granules onto invading parasites (worms).

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Inflammation

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Tissue response to injury or infection. Caused by blow, heat, chemicals, bacteria, virus, fungi, allergic reaction.

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4 Signs of Inflammation

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Redness, heat, swelling, & pain

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Inflammatory Chemical Release

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Inflammatory process begins with the release of inflammatory chemicals: cytokines, histamine, kinins, prostaglandins, complement.

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Local Vasodilation

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Fluid, antibodies, clotting factors leak from nearby capillaries and forms a gel-like mesh to limit spread of infection.

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Phagocyte Mobilization

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White blood cells attracted to place of infection

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Phagocyte Mobilization Process

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1. Leukocytosis
2. Margination
3. Diapedsis
4. Chemotaxis

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Leukocytosis

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Injured cells release factors that cause neutrophils to be released from bone marrow into blood.

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Margination

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In inflamed area, endothelial cells of blood vessels display cell adhesion molecule (CAMs) on surface. Bind to complementary CAMs on neutrophils. Neutrophils cling to vessel walls here.

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Diapedesis

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Neutrophils squeeze through capillary or venule wall out into inflamed tissue

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Chemotaxis

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Neutrophils continue to follow source of chemical signal to sites of infection to phagocytose foreign sustances and cellular debris.

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Fever

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Increase body temperature in response to pyrogens secreted by white blood cells and macrophages exposed to foreign substances

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Fevers increases metabolism which ________.

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Speeds healing

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Fevers causes liver & spleen to sequester iron & zinc which _____.

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Prevents bacteria from growing

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General Characteristics of Adaptive Immune Defenses

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Specificity, Systemic, & Memory

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Specificity

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Recognizes and responds against particular pathogens or foreign substances

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Systemic

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Immunity not restricted to infection site only

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Memory

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After initial exposure, adpative defense system mounts quicker, stronger attacks on previously-encountered pathogens.

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What are the major arms of adaptive immune defenses?

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Humoral and cellular immunity

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Humoral Immunity

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antibody-based that binds to foreign substances

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Cellular Immunity

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White blood cells themselves attack foreign invaders

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Antigens

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Substances that provoke an immune response; provoke antibody production.

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What can act as an antigen?

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Almost any foreign molecule, especially proteins.

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Clonal Selection and Differentiation of B cells

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Proliferation/ Clone formation -> plasma cells & memory cells

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Humoral Responses

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Immunological Memory; Primary & Secondary Responses

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Primary Response

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Clonal Selection and differentiation upon first exposure to particular antigen
-usually lag of 3-6 days (few B cells multiply & differentiate to plasma cells)
-Antibody level peak at about day 10 then decline
-sets up immunological memory

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Secondary Response

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Re-exposure to same antigen that stimulates more memory cells.
-faster, stronger, prolonged, more effective
-Antibody levels remain high weeks-months

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Antibody Actions

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Neutralization, precipitation, opsinization, complement fixation

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Neutralization

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Antibodies binds/masks dangerous parts of a molecule. Antigens lose toxic properties.

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Precipitation

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Antigen become insoluable

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Opsinization

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Alters antigen cell membranes so cells are more susceptible to phagocytosis

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Complement Fixation

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Help activate complement (20 proteins) that establish membrane attack complex (MAC)

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Cell-mediated Immune Response

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Essential for when pathogens (virus) invades host cells (not accessible to antibodies)

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T cells

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Carry out cellular-mediated immunity

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What are the two major types of T cells.

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Helper T Cells & Cytotoxic T Cells

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Helper T Cells

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Have CD4 glycoprotein receptors

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Cytotoxic T Cells

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Killer T Cells & Have CD8 glycoprotein receptors

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Contact killing involves _________.

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Perforin & Granzyme

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Perforin

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Protein that establishes water pores in target cell. Swelling & bursting.

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Granzyme

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Protease that enters target cell via pores. Degrades protein inside.

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Apoptosis

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Programmed cell death

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Immunodeficiencies

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Abnormal behavior of immune cells, phagocytes, or complement protein complex. Can be congenital or acquired.

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SCID

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Genetic defects producing deficit of B cells and T cells. Little or no protection against disease-causing organism.

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Hodgkins Lymphoma

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Cancer of B cells; symptoms of swollen lymph glands

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AIDS

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caused by HIV, which kills Helper T cells; impairs immune system. Virus has high mutation rate, very difficult to treat/combat, and uses a reverse transcriptase to produce DNA from its own RNA code, which then gets incorporated into host cell genome to produce more virus.

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Autoimmune Disease

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Immune system fails to distinguish self from nonself and attacks own body cells

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Multiple Sclerosis

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Destroys white matter in brain and spinal cord- attacking myelin sheath

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Destroys joints

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Hypersensitivities

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Immune system causes tissue damage as it fights perceived threat, usually harmless to body