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BARRIERS AND IMMUNE SYSTEM

Yessika Andrea Orea Yañez

Created on January 30, 2024

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BODY DEFENSES AGAINS INFECTIONS

IMMUNE SYSTEM

With pathogens all around us, it might seem amazing that most of us aren’t sick most of the time…….!

DESTROY

CONTAIN

DETECT

Coughing sneezing, and physical contact. Many bacteria and viruses that infect the throat, nose, or respiratory tract are spread by indirect contact. ​ Exchange body fluids. Some pathogens require specific kinds of direct contact to be transferred host by host. Contaminated water or food. Many pathogens that infect the digestive tract are spread through water contaminated with feces from infected people or animals.

innate immune system adaptative immune system

Defense lines

FIRST LINE: Act against a wide range of biological agents.​ First defense reaction Barriers to entry​.

Defense lines

SECOND LINE:​ Inflammatory Reaction​ Protective Proteins​ Innate immune cells

Defense lines

THIRD LINE:​ Adaptative immunity Effective against a particular infectious agents

innate immune system

Barriers (physical, chemical, microbiological), cells, complement system ​

We are born with it Non-specific responses All cells except lymphocytes ​

FIRST DEFENSE LINE

Barriers to entry​

PHYSICAL BARRIERS

Epithelial tissue

  • Skin and hair
  • Mucosas

Hair and skin can stop microbes

Cilia can trap microbes

CHEMICAL BARRIERS

Tears​Sweat​ Sebum Saliva​ Mucus Urine​

Acids Urine​ Ear wax

enzimes to attack microbes

MICROBIOLOGICAL BARRIERS

Microbiome ​

friendly microbes

Tears wash away irritating substances and microbes.​ Mucus traps organisms.​ Saliva, tears, and mucus contain Lysozyme: an enzyme that kills microbes ​ In the stomach gastric acids kill organisms​ Vaginal acid pH can kill microbes

second DEFENSE LINE

Inflammation, innate immune system​

THE MICROBE

scapes your first line
If the pathogens make it into the body, let's say through a cut in the skin, the second line of defense swings into action.

OUR SOLDIERS

phagocytosiskilling sick cells

Phagocitosis

eating the microbe: macrophages

Killing

killing sick cells by cell suicide: natural killers

adaptative immune system

Lymphocytes T and B, antibodies ​

We acquire it Highly specific Diverse Stimulated by vaccines ​

T CELLS

B CELLS

B Lymphocytes​ Bone Marrow Produce antibodies

T Lymphocytes​Thymus Gland Directly attack cells

antigen antibody

pathogen

iMmune cells

vaccines