Interferon-alpha2b is a cytokine produced in a laboratory using recombinant DNA technology and is used in the treatment of malignant melanoma. Dendritic cells are antigen-presenting cells APCs. Antigen is combined with major histocompatibility complex and presented on a dendritic cell to active T and B lymphocytes.
An eosinophil is a type of immune cell leukocyte, or white blood cell. They help fight infection or cause inflammation. Granulocytes including eosinophils, neutrophils and basophils are a type of white blood cell that releases toxic materials, such as antimicrobial agents, enzymes, nitrogen oxides and other proteins, during an attack from a pathogen. The primary effector cell of innate immunity; the first responders of the immune system. They interact with signals from other cells activating and inhibitory.
Type of white blood cell that is involved with the immune system. T lymphocytes mature in the thymus and differentiate into cytotoxic, memory, helper and regulatory T cells.
The T cells are grown and modified in a lab to include special receptors chimeric antigen receptor that can recognize and attack cancer cells. Activated cytotoxic T cells can migrate through blood vessel walls and non-lymphoid tissues.
They can also travel across the blood brain barrier. Derived from activated cytotoxic T cells, memory T cells are long-lived and antigen-experienced. One memory T cell can produce multiple cytotoxic T cells. After activated cytotoxic T cells attack the pathogen, the memory T cells hang around to mitigate any recurrence. Helper T cells secrete cytokines that help B cells differentiate into plasma cells. These cells also help to activate cytotoxic T cells and macrophages. Lymphocytes are immune cells found in the blood and lymph tissue.
T and B lymphocytes are the two main types. Macrophages are large white blood cells that reside in tissues that specialize in engulfing and digesting cellular debris, pathogens and other foreign substances in the body.
Large white blood cells that reside in the blood stream that specialize in engulfing and digesting cellular debris, pathogens and other foreign substances in the body.
Monocytes become macrophages. When immature myeloid cells cannot differentiate into mature myeloid cells, due to conditions like cancer, expansion of myeloid-derived suppressor cells occurs, and the T-cell response can be suppressed.
A type of white blood cell, granulocyte, and phagocyte that aids in fighting infection. Neutrophils kill pathogens by ingesting them. Phagocytes eat up pathogens by attaching to and wrapping around the pathogen to engulf it. Once the pathogen is trapped inside the phagocyte, it is in a compartment called a phagosome. The phagosome will then merge with a lysosome or granule to form a phagolysosome, where the pathogen is killed by toxic materials, such as antimicrobial agents, enzymes, nitrogen oxides or other proteins.
Tell us what you think about Healio. Begin your journey with Learn Immuno-Oncology. Test your knowledge and determine where to start. Combination Immunotherapies References. Visit Healio. Your Module Progress. Module 1. Module Content. Thank you for participating in this module. So this is why we call it the specific immune system. Now we said, what does that helper T cell do at that point? He said, hey, I happen to be the one helper T cell that can bond to this guy, this antigen that's presented.
It becomes activated. And I won't go into the details, but in general, dendritic cells are the best ones at activating it, especially a naive T cell. In general, when we talk about a naive B cell or a naive helper T cell, these are cells that are non-memory, non-effector, that have never been touched by-- they've never been activated, in the case of a B cell. They've never been activated by something binding to their membrane bound antibody-- or a naive helper T cell is a non-effector, non-memory helper T cell that's never had anything bound to it.
So if this guy is naive and then he finally has a reaction with this antigen presenting cell, he becomes non-naive. He becomes activated and when activated, two things happen. Well, just like with B cells, he proliferates many, many, many copies of himself and some subset of those copies differentiate into effector cells.
And effector just means it does something. It does something now instead of saving the memory. And then some subset of them become memory helper T cells after getting activated. Now the memory T cells, just like memory B cells-- now you have more copies of this. So in 10 years in the future, if something like this happens, this interaction's going to be more likely to happen. These guys have the same T cell receptor as their parent.
It's just that the memory T cells-- or actually even the memory B cells-- they last longer. They don't kill themselves. They'll last for years so that if 10 years later, something like this starts presenting itself, you're going to have more of these guys around to bump into this guy so that you can raise the alarm bells.
This guy's also going to have the same chain right there. So you're saying, fine. I have these memory cells. They're going to stick around so that this reaction can happen in the future, but I still haven't answered the question, what does the effector T cell do? What the effector T cell does is it raises the alarm.
So there's an effector T cell. It has been activated. Remember, this is very particular. Only this version of T cells, but once it got activated, it produced many copies of itself because it says, hey, I'm responding to a particular type of pathogen.
So that this is a helper T cell. This is an effector. And what these do is they start releasing these molecules called cytokines. So they start releasing cytokines. There are many, many different types of cytokines and I'm not going to go into detail on all that, but what cytokines do is that they really raise the alarm.
So if you have other activated lymphatic cells or other activated immunological cells-- when the cytokines enter those cells-- remember, cytokines are really just proteins. When the cytokines enter-- or polypeptides-- when they enter those cells, it makes them get in gear. It makes them multiply more often or it makes them get more active in their immune response.
So what this does-- these cytokines you can view as chemical alarm bells chemical or peptide alarm bells alarm bells it it tells everyone to get in gear. So that's one role, and so you can see this is actually a very central role and it'll tell both activated cytotoxic T cells to get in gear, which we haven't talked about yet.
And it'll also tell B cells to keep proliferating. So when an activated B cell gets some of-- so this is an activated B cell. When it gets some of these cytokines, that maybe come from a local helper T cell, it'll tell it, hey no, divide more often. Divide more often. Only if you've been activated already. And we'll talk more about why it has to be that case, because you don't want all the B cells to be activated.
And the other thing that the effector T cell does-- in the B cell discussion, I said, OK, if I have a B cell, and it has its membrane bound antibody, has its membrane bound antibody.
And remember, this is a particular version, it has its particular variable chain right here. And this guy binds to a pathogen. So this binds to a pathogen. Maybe it's a virus right there. Up to now, I've been saying that this guy's activated. And he's going to-- well, when he binds to the pathogen he'll take this in and he'll take part of the pathogen and cut it up and place it on an MHC II molecule.
And we said, then he'll be activated. He'll proliferate and he'll differentiate into memory and effector B cells-- but that's not quite true. This first stage happens. This guy bonds.
This B cell happened to be specific to this virus. Cuts up the virus. Puts parts of the virus on its surface and presents parts of the antigen.
But in most cases, this B cell isn't yet activated. You can kind of view it as in its resting state, ready to be activated, but it hasn't started proliferating and differentiating into effector and memory molecules yet. And in order for that to happen, an activated helper T cell that is also specific to this very same virus-- so you could imagine someplace else in the cell-- this virus was eaten by a dendritic cell. So this exact same virus, this exact same species of virus, is eaten by that dendritic cell and so the dendritic cell eats it up, it cuts it up, and then it presents it-- it's antigen presenting so it presents it just like that.
Then this will activate a very specific T cell, maybe that one. So a very specific T cell will come and bump into it. Memory cells are unique because they remember pathogens and infectious cells faster than others allowing them to fight off bacteria and viruses quickly. Memory T cells are the reason vaccines can create immunities in the body. T cells are an essential part of the medical research field and could pave the way to many breakthroughs in the near future.
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