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What is the purpose of inflammation in immunology?
What are the cardinal signs of inflammation?
What specifically triggers the immune response?
Name the groups of chemicals that act as mediators of inflammation
State the cytokines involved in inflammation
State the auxiliary cell mediators involved in inflammation
State the anaphylatoxins involved in inflammation
Outline the process of leukocytes moving out of blood vessels
How would you summarise innate immunity?
State the properties of innate immunity
Give examples of external barrier that make up the immune system
How do commensal organisms perform their innate immunity function?
How does lung surfactant carry out its innate immunity function?
In terms of immunity, what is chemotaxis?
Define Opsonisation
What do mast cells release?
What do platelets secrete?
Define cytokines
Run through the list of interleukins
What are acute phase proteins?
Name two cytotoxic cells involved in the non-specific response
What are the ways in which a phagocyte can bind to a pathogen?
What are the two ways in which phagocytes can kill? Give some examples
What are PAMPs and how do they work?
What are the functions of antibodies?
What are the 4 ways in which a phagocyte can bind to a pathogen?
What is cytokine storm?
Describe and outline the structure of an antibody
What determines the class of the antibody?
Describe the structure of IgA
Describe the structure of IgM
Which of the antibodies are monomers?
Define Antibody Isotype
Define Antibody Allotype
Define Antibody Idiotype
How do immune cells bind to antibody?
Describe the process of microbe defence in secretions such as mucous, tears and saliva
How many antigen binding sites does IgM have and why does this not happen in reality?
Which is the first antibody produced in the immune response?
When and what is the second antibody produced?
Which antibody is found in mucosal secretions?
What does IgE do and how does it work?
Which is the only antibody that can protect the foetus by crossing the placenta?
Define Antibody Affinity
Define antibody avidity
What are immune complexes?
What does the formation of an immune complex do?
Which complement protein works to make immune complexes more soluble so that they are more easily removed?
Describe the process of transporting immune complexes
Describe how an immune complex will struggle to be cleared and what the consequences are
