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Microbe Sheet
1. What is a PRR? What is a PAMP? Do we have PRRs or PAMPs?
2. What is the structure present on a Gram-positive bacterium? Is this a PRR or
PAMP?
3. What is the structure present on a Gram-negative bacterium? Is this a PRR
or PAMP?
4. What are the examples of Gram-negative bacteria?
5. What are the examples of Gram-positive bacteria?
6. What are some examples of viruses?
Chapter 1
7. What is the “model” that we use for intracellular microbes? What about
extracellular microbes?
8. What is the lag time for the primary immune response?
9. Select the right option: The first/second infection is the most dangerous.
10.Disease can be prevented by prior exposure from a ____________.
11.Who is considered the Father of Immunology? What did he do?
12.What is the only eradicated (human) pathogen?
13.Any organism with potential to cause disease is a _______________.
14.What is an opportunistic pathogen?
15.What are the four types of pathogens?
16.Select the right options: Commensal bacteria are/are not harmful and
can/cannot be killed from a round of antibiotics.
17.What are the physical barriers that we have against infection?
18.What are the two parts of the innate response?
19.What are the four parts of inflammation?
20.Determine if the following statements refers to innate immunity or adaptive
immunity.
a. Highly specific for antigens g. First line of defense
b. Includes B and T cells
c. Works rapidly
d. Remembers a previous
microbe
e. Give rise to acute
inflammatory response
f. Uses one type of receptor to
recognize different
pathogens
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, 21.T or F: Innate immune system activates and aids in the adaptive immune
response.
22.T or F: A single lymphocyte will have a receptor with a single specificity.
23.What is clonal selection? What is clonal expansion?
24.Are we more likely to survive if we lose our innate immune system or
adaptive immune system?
25.What are leukocytes? What are the cells of the immune system?
26.Are all lymphocytes leukocytes?
27.Where does hematopoiesis occur?
28.Hematopoietic stem cells give rise to other cells through _______________,
becoming more mature stem cells that commit to different lineages.
29.What does the lymphoid lineage differentiate into?
30.What does the myeloid lineage differentiate into?
31.What does the erythroid lineage differentiate into?
32.What are the granulocytes? What do they stain
33.What is the most abundant leukocyte? What is the second most abundant?
34.What are the lymphocytes?
35.Are all leukocytes lymphocytes?
36.What do we call resting lymphocytes that have not been activated or
interacted with an antigen?
37._______________ are lymphocytes that have interacted with antigen and
proliferate and ______________ ______ are lymphocytes that eliminate the
antigen.
38.Natural killer (NK) cells are _____________ lymphocytes found mainly in
_____________. They secrete ______________ to prevent viruses and activate
cell-mediated immunity.
39.Which of the following is NOT true regarding neutrophils?
a. They are short-lived and die at the site of infection.
b. They are pyogenic.
c. They are important lymphocytes with phagocytic ability.
d. They are a type of granulocyte.
e. All of the above are true.
40.Monocytes circulate in the _________ for about 8 hours, then migrate into the
_________ to become _________________. Both are phagocytic.
41.What is the role of a dendritic cell?
42.What is a follicular dendritic cell?
43.Mast cells release mediators such as _____________ which can cause
vasodilation and attract leukocytes.
44.Match the following:
A. Basophils 1. Allergic reactions, lowest WBCs in
circulation
B. Neutrophils 2. Responsible for fighting parasites
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