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The Immune System Function • The immune system functions to provide protection from disease causing agents in the one’s environment • Pathogens include viruses, bacteria, fungi, protistans, and various parasitic animals Lines of Defense Innate Immunity – non-specific through a variety of mechanisms 1. Surface Barriers 2. Internal Defense Acquired Immunity – specific through special lymphocytes 1. Humoral Response – B Cells 2. Cell Mediated Response – T Cells Innate Immunity: Surface Barriers • Skin with low moisture, low pH, thick layers of dead cells, and resident bacterial fauna • Mucous membranes with low pH, lysozyme, and flushing action of secretions Innate Immunity: Internal Defense • 1. 2. 3. 4. The internal defense mechanisms of the innate immune response has a number of components, that may act in concert to defeat the foreign pathogen. Phagocytic cells Complement proteins Inflammation Natural Killer Cells http://www.muhealth.org/~pharm204/inflammation.mov Inflammation In reaction to tissue damage or cell death mast cells release histamine which induces dilation in the surrounding capillaries and indirectly the four symptoms of inflammation: 1. Swelling 2. Reddness 3. Warmth 4. Pain Phagocytic Cells There are a variety of phagocytic cells that include: • Neutrophils • Eosinophils • Basophils • Macrophages Compliment Proteins • Actived plasma proteins create a Cascade of other proteins to form that produce pore complexes that induces lysis and death in cellular pathogens • Bound complexes also promote phagocytosis Acquired Immunity • Becomes activated as physical barriers and inflammation fail. Phagocytic cells produce cytokines that initiate the acquired immune response. • Specialized lymphocytes called B and T-cells initiate the humoral and cellmediated responses, respectively. General Mechanism Pathogens stimulate the mitotic production of: Effector cells that reduce the pathogen • Helper T Cells • Cytotoxic T Cells • B Cells Memory cells that remain in prepared for later infections by the same pathogen Antigen Presentation In this process macrophages 1. engulf, 2. process, and 3. presents the pathogens antigens in their MHC markers (surface proteins) to the immune system. Helper T-Cells • Antigen presentation activates Helper TCells which subsequently are involved in activating Cytotoxic T-Cells and BCells. Cytotoxic T-Cells: Cell Mediated Response • T-cells mature in the Thymus and take residence in the lymphatic system at maturity • Effector Cytotoxic Tcells secrete 1. Perforins (pore producing chemical) and 2. Apoptosis inducing chemicals B-Cells: Antibody Response • B-cells mature in the bone marrow • Effector B-cells secrete a diversity of “Y” shaped proteins called antibodies binding • Antibodies bond to antigens and set them up for destruction by macrophages