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What are the primary adaptive immune cells? - Answer -B and T cells

What cells are lymphocytes? - Answer -NK, B, and T cells

What does the red pulp of the spleen do? - Answer -erythrocyte (RBC) filtration

What does the white pulp of the spleen do? - Answer -leukocyte (WBC) filtration

inactivation by Factor H and I results in an opsonin
-NOT a convertase


this is what C - Answer -ic3b

DAF stands for - Answer -decay accelerating factor

MCP stands for - Answer -membrane cofactor protein

inhibit the activity of bacterial proteases - Answer -alpha2-macroglobulins

are the human version of MAC complex, which creates pores/holes in pathogenic
surfaces - Answer -defensins

What cell makes up the highest concentration of leukocytes? - Answer -neutrophils

pus forming - Answer -pyogenic

fever inducing pyogenic or pyrogenic - Answer -pyrogenic

CR1 binds to - Answer -C3b

CR2 binds to - Answer -C3d

CR3 binds to - Answer -iC3b

CR4 binds to what on G bacteria - Answer -LPS on G- bacteria

TLR-3 binds to what virsus - Answer -dsRNA viruses

TLR-4 binds to what on bacteria - Answer -LPS on G- bacteria

TLR-5 binds to - Answer -Flagellin

,TLR-7 binds to virsus - Answer -ssRNA viruses

recognize bacterial cell components 2 N - Answer -NOD-1/NOD-2

a form of cytokine that directs leukocyte traff - Answer -chemokines

cytokines

proinflammotory
IL-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12, CX, and T
name the 5 hint:IL-1 - Answer -proinflammatory mediators ( IL-1, IL-6, IL-12, CXCL8,
and TNF-alpha)

What cells are NOT in germline configuration? - Answer -mature B and mature T cells

-first Ab produced - Answer -IgM

Pentameric - Answer -IgM

activateis complement

which IG ? 2 - Answer -Igm IgG

can cross mucosal cell via polyg Ig recepor - Answer -IgM and dimeric IgA

-highest concentration in blood - Answer -IgG

-good for neutralization/opsonization - Answer -IgG

crosses placenta via the FcRn/FcRB/Brambell receptor - Answer -IgG

can be monomeric or dimeric

where are they found? - Answer -IgA

monomeric=circulation
dimeric=gut

-most abundant in the body

which Ig - Answer -IgA

-involved in allergic reactions and parasites - Answer -IgE

-present in serum in low levels: IgG,A,M,E - Answer -IgE

, high affinity for FCeRII found on mast cells, basophils, and activated eosinophils -
Answer -IgE

-found on the surface of mature, naive B cells (along with IgM) - Answer -IgD

-complementary determining region and hypervariable loop are synonymous - Answer -
CDR-X/HV-X

What is the most diverse CDR and HV? - Answer -CDR3/HV3

Somatic recombination occurs in what2 lymphotcyes? - Answer -B and T lymphocytes

Somatic hypermutation occurs in what lymphoctye? - Answer -B lymphocytes

recombination signal sequences are the "launching pad" for RAG-1 and RAG-2 during
somatic recombination - Answer -RSS

12/23 or 1/2 turn rule - Answer -one RAG complex binds to a 23bp spacer (2 turns)
while another RAG complex binds to a 12bp spacer (1 turn) and they are brought
together

-terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase
-adds N nucleotides to generate junctional diversity - Answer -TdT

Heavy chain (B cell) and
beta chain (T cell) rearrangement - Answer --D→ J
-DJ→ V

What are the different isotypes of heavy chain?
GAMED - Answer --Alpha: 1 and 2
-Delta
-Gamma: 1, 2, 3, 4
-Epsilon
-Mu

Light chain (B cell)
and alpha chain (T cell) rearrangement - Answer -V→ J

What are the different isotypes of light chain? - Answer --Kappa
-Lambda

What is the goal of somatic hypermutation?
increase what?
by rearranging what regions - Answer -While in a germinal center located inside of a
secondary lymphoid tissue, to increase affinity of B lymphocytes by rearranging the V
regions

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