WEEK 1

INNATE IMMUNITY AND INFLAMMATION

Objectives:

1. Understand innate immunity and how it works to protect the body.

2. Describe the inflammatory response.

3. Explain the complement system.

Vocabulary:

· Adaptive immunity

· Agranulocyte

· Anaphylatoxin

· Arachidonic acid

· Bacteriocin

· Candida albicans

· Clostridium difficile

· Complement system (3 pathways)

· COX enzyme

· Cytokines

· DAMP

· Defensins

· Dust cells

· Exudate

· Granulocyte

· Histamine

· Five cardinal signs

· IgA

· IL1

· Innate immunity

· Kupffer cell

· Lactobacillus acidophilus

· Langerhans cell

· Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD)

· Leukotrienes

· Lysozyme

· Microglial cell

· Mucociliary escalator system

· Natural killer (NK) cell

· Normal flora

· NSAIDs

· Opsonin

· PAMP

· Phospholipase A2

· Prostaglandin

· Pseudomonas aeruginosa

· TNF-alpha

Innate ImmunityThe First Line of DefenseThe Second Line of Defense – Inflammation and Complement SystemCharacteristics of InflammationThe Inflammatory ResponseDrugs for Inflammation and Dietary ContributionsThe Complement System

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