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Soluble
Factors
oF
Innate
Immune
System
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Cellular
Factors
of
Innate
System
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Subclassification
of
Adaptive
immunity
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B
lymphocytes
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T
Lymphocytes
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Soluble
Factors
of
Adaptive
System
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B
Lymphocytes
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Type
I
(immediate)
Hypersensitivity
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Type
II
(Antibody
Mediated)
Hypersensitivity
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Type
III
(Immune
Complex-‐Mediated)
Hypersensitivity
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Type
IV
(cell
mediated)
Hypersensitivity
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Delayed
Type
Hypersensitivity
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T
Cell
Mediated
Cytotoxicity
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Types
of
Rejection
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Immunity
• Innate =
o mechanisms present & already synthesised prior to infection
o physical, biochemical & cellular factors (limited)
o static resistance, no memory
! specifically good at working against microbes
• Adaptive (aka acquired):
o = microbes stimulate mechanisms which are capable of recognising non-microbial substances eg
antigens
o more powerful, 2nd line defense
o memory, with subsequent enhanced response
o immune response refers to adaptive
Innate Immunity
• 1st line defence
• main components:
o Physical defences:
! epithelial barriers
! commensural flora, gastric fluid acididy, fever, lung surfactant
o biochemical defences:
! soluble factors:
• lysosumes
• acute phase reactants eg CRP
• complement
• fibronectin
• interferon
o cellular:
! phagocytic cells eg neutrophil & MPs
! NK (natural killer) cells
Soluble
Factors
oF
Innate
Immune
System
1. Lysozymes
• Distributed widely in many secretions
• Act by cleaving bacterial cell wall proteoglycans
2. Fibronectin
• Family of closely related glycoproteins
• Synthesised by endothelial cells & fibroblasts
• Actions:
o Non specific opsonisation
o Facilitation of phagocytosis
o Wound healing & tissue repair
• Levels ↓ed by: major burns, surgery, trauma, DIC
3. Complement
• see separate section below
4. Interferons
• From virally infected cells & malignant cells
• Transmit information to adjacent cells
• Activate NK cells ⇒ ↑cytotoxic action
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5. Acute Phase Reactants
• Eg CRP:
o Recognises & binds wade variety of bacteria & fungi
o Acts as an opsonin ie ↑phagocytosis & complements action
Cellular
Factors
of
Innate
System
Natural Killer Cells
• =10-15% blood lymphocytes
• non thymic
• aka large granular lymphoctytes
• don’t have TLRs (no antigenic surface markers of T/B cells)
• part of innate immune system – but are regulated by T cells ∴ also role in adaptive immunity
• Different cytokines/interferons regulate NK cells – proliferate or kill
• role to kill with no presensitisation:
o tumour cells
o virally infected cells
o some normal cells
• activity mediated by balance of activating & inhibitory receptors:
o inhibition by recognition of self class I MHC molecules
! = killer inhibitory receptors
• all nucleated normal cells express class I MHC
! virally infected cells ↓s expression of class I MHC ⇒ NK cell lysis (in conjunction with
activating receptors
• NKs also secrete cytokines:
o IFN-y ⇒
! activate macrophague
! differentiate CD4+ cells ⇒ TH1 cells
o TNF
o Granulocyte macrophague colong stim factor (GM-CSF)
Neutrophils
• 80-90% of circulating polymorphs
• contain: lysozymes, phagosomes, ingested organisms, phagolysozomes
• are able to penetrate endothelial surface under influence of chemotactic factors
Esinophils
• can phagocytose
• can degranulate adjacent large foreign bodies (which too large for phagocytosis) eg worms
• attracted by eosinophil chemotactic factor
• attach to Ig’s & foreign particles
• release:
o major basic protein
o eosinophil cationic protein
o anti-inflam enzymes
• may have role in immune down regulation
Basophils & Mast Cells
• limited no in circulation
• predominantly assoc with epithelial cells esp mast cells
• may play role in immunity to parasitic infections ie ↑ed response
Phagocytes
• Phagocytes recruited to site of infection ⇒ inflam
• Phagocytes recognise microbes by receptors for:
o mannose residues not produced by host
cells
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