Lecture 19

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What are our primary lymphoid organs? (2)
Thymus, bone marrow
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What are our secondary lymphoid organs? (6)
Adenoids, tonsils, spleen, peyer's patches, appendix, lymph nodes
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Where does central tolerance take place? (2)
Thymus, bone marrow
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Where does peripheral tolerance take place?
Secondary lymphoid tissue
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What happens to immune cells negatively selected in central tolerance? (3)
Apoptosis, receptor editing, become Tregs
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What happens to immune cells in peripheral tolerance? (3)
Anergy, apoptosis, suppression
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What must T cells bind to mount an immune response? (2)
Peptide and MHC
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How do 80% of T cells die by neglect during selection?
Failure to bind to MHC
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Whow do 20% T cells die by apoptosis during selection?
Bind too strongly
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What mediates suppression?
Treg cells
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What causes anergy?
Lack of co-stimulation
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Where does ignorance occur?
Immune privileged sites
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What drives peripheral B cell tolerance?
T cells
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How does Th cell activity cause B cell anergy?
= Anergised Th cells => naive B cell => anergy
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What are the requirements for autoimmune disease?
Escape from central tolerance, encounter self antigen, peripheral tolerance failure, autoreactive tissue damage
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What are the mechanisms for autoimmune disease?
Genetic susceptibility, infection/injury, self reactive lymphocyte influx, activation of autoreactive disease
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What is an autoimmune disease caused by trauma of immune privilege sites?
Sympathetic ophthalmia 
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What is molecular mimicry?
When a protein peptide of bacteria is similar to self protein peptides
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What are diseases resulting from molecular mimicry?
Rheumatic fever, multiple sclerosis
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What are the peptide epitopes in rheumatic fever?
Human myosin peptide in heart, streptococcus cell wall protein peptide
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What are the origins of peptides in multiple sclerosis?
Human myelin protein, Epstein-Barr virus protein
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What is the progression of multiple sclerosis?
Auto immune attack on myelin sheath, damage to nerve axons, sensory and somatic dysfunction
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What is damaged in Type I diabetes?
Beta cells of islet of langerhan
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What is the disease mechanism in rheumatoid arthritis?
Autoimmune attack on synovial tissue and cartilage
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Which disease is entirely treated with diet?
Coeliac disease
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What influences susceptibility?= = More than one gene (polygenic), environmental factors
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Which autoimmune disease is more common in women?
Rheumatoid arthritus
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What are the common drugs for autoimmune disease?
NSAIDS, corticosteroids, DMARDs, TNF antagonists
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What is the drawback of using immune suppressive drugs?
Disruption of the immune system, susceptibility to infection