Social Development
GUIDELINES
IN IMMUNOLOGY for the 3-d year students
KURSK 2010
Authors: Head of the immunology and allergology department professor S.M. Yudina Associated professor A.V. Arkhipova Teacher T.A. Lykina
CONTENTS
Recommended literature 1. Structure and functions of immune system. 2. Antigens and Antibodies. 3. Major Histocompatibility Complex. 4. T-lymphocytes. 5. B-cell immunity. 6. Mononuclear phagocytic system. Antigen-Presenting cells. 7. Mediators of immune system. 8. Adaptive and Innate Immunity. 9. Cytotoxic reactions. 10. Transplantation immunity. 11. Immunology of blood transfusion. 12. Immune system development. 13. Antitumor immunity. 14. The questions for credit-test.
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GENERAL COMMENTS Immunology is associated with many clinical problems. This discipline is a theoretical basis of Medicine. The main purpose of Immunology is to give knowledge in development, individual variability, adaptation to changing function, defensive and pathological mechanisms of the human organism. The aim of the course is teaching the basic principles of theoretical and practical approaches to immunopathologies, clinical thinking development necessary for diagnostics and therapy of immunopathologies.
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. S. M. Yudina, A. V. Arkhipova Immunology. The educational manual for the students on actual questions of theoretical Immunology, Kursk, 2004, 72 pp. ( ) 2. Basic immunology, clinical immunology and allergology. S.M. Yudina, A.V. Arkhipova, T.A. Lykina, T.S. Rusanova. Kursk, 2008, 196 pp. ( ) 3. Hyde, R.M. Immunology, 3-rd ed. New Delhi: B.I. Waverly PVT LTD, 1997 316 pp. 4. Khaitov, R.M. Immunology: textbook. M.- 2008. - 256p.:il ( CD) 5. I. Roitt, J. Brostoff, D. Male. Immunology, St.Louis:Mosby, 1993, 362 pp. 6. Immunology/ D. Male. J. Brostoff, D. Roitt, Canada, 2006, 552 pp. 7. HIV infection and AIDS Ed. L.Deodhar, 2-nd ed. Bombay: VORA Medical Publications, 1996 - 150 pp. 8. Leonard C. Altman. Clinical allergy and immunology, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984, 491 pp. 9. Sharon J. Basic Immunology, Baltimore: Williamse & Wilkins, 1999 303 pp. 10. C. A. Janeway, P. Travers, M. Walport, J.D. Carpa Immunol-
ogy: The Immune system in health and disease, 4-th ed. Churchill Livingstone, 1999 - 635 pp.
Activity B: draw the scheme of hemopoiesis. Activity C: draw the scheme of lymphopoiesis.
17. Functions of the variable and constant regions. 18. Definition of domains, their functions. 19. Characteristics of the major antibodies properties. 20. Types of antigen-antibody interaction. 21. Principles of the main methods of antibodies identification.
Task-based activities. Activity A: Draw the scheme of antibody structure. Activity B: Draw the scheme of ELISA.
Practical skills due: 1. A student must be able to determinate the antibodies concentration with Mancini method. 2. A student should learn to detect the level of antigens and antibodies with ELISA.
4. Genetic organization of the MHC. 5. Polymorphisms of class I and class II loci. 6. Structure of the MHC class I antigens. 7. Cells, expressing the MHC class I antigens. 8. Functions of the class I molecules. 9. Structure of the MHC class II antigens. 10. Cells, expressing the MHC class II molecules. 11. Functions of the class II molecules. 12. Characteristics of the MHC class III. 13. Serologic assays for HLA typing. 14. Mixed lymphocyte reaction for HLA-typing. 15. Uses of HLA- typing. 16. Diseases, associated with MHC-alleles. 17. The role of the MHC antigens in transplantation.
Task-based Activities. Activity A: Draw the scheme of the MHC class II molecules structure. Activity B: Draw the scheme of the mixed lymphocyte reaction.
Practical skills due: A student must be know the indication to HLA- typing.
Topic: T-lymphocytes.
Aim: to study the main stages of the T-lymphocytes development, their receptors and markers, to be aware of the T-cell subsets and their functions, to know the types of the T-cell pathology. Motivation section: T-lymphocytes are the leaders among the immune cells with their quantity and quality characteristics. They take part in all immune reactions, according to their effector function. The studying of T-cell functions
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and peculiarities is necessary for understanding of the immune reactions in normal and pathological states.
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Task based activities Activity A: Draw the scheme of the T-lymphocyte ontogenesis. Activity B: Draw the scheme of the TCR receptor.
Practical skills due: A student must be able to count the quantity of T-cells through light microscope.
11. Characteristics of IgA and its types. 12. Characteristics of IgG. 13. Characteristics of IgM. 14. Characteristics of IgD, IgE. 15. Definition of isotypes, allotypes, idiotypes. 16. B-cell immunity pathologies. 17. Main methods of lymphocyte identification. 18. Functional assays for lymphocytes. 19. Clinical application of lymphocyte assays.
Task-based activities. Activity A: Draw the scheme of the B-lymphocytes ontogenesis. Activity B: Draw the scheme of the B-lymphocyte activation. Activity C: Draw the scheme of immune fluorescence analysis.
Practical skills due: A student must be able to count the quantity of B-cells through light microscope.
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Task based Activities: Activity A. Draw the scheme of phagocytosis. Activity B. Draw the scheme of antigen processing.
Practical skills due: A student must be able to count the phagocytises using light microscope.
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A student must be able to count the Formosanpositive cells using light microscope.
16. Characteristics of IL-8. 17. IL-1, IL-6, TNF- and other are called the cytokines, promoting inflammatory processes. Explain the reasons. 18. IL-4, IL-10, IL-13 and other are called antiinflammatory cytokines. Explain their action. 19. TNF: cells of production, effects on immune and non-immune cells. 20. TNF- is called cachexin. Explain the reason. 21. Characteristics of interferon family, types, functions. 22. Mechanism of cytokine interaction with cells. 23. Inhibitors of cytokine production. 24. Cytokines assays in blood and biological fluids. Clinical application. 25. Use of cytokine drugs in clinical practice.
Task based activities. Activity A: Draw the scheme of hemopoiesis regulating with cytokines. Activity B: Explain the scheme, which you have drawn.
Practical skills due A student should learn to determine the cytokine concentration in serum using ELISA.
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protection of the organism of all foreign agents. The disturbance of it is the reason of different diseases (infections, tumours, allergy, autoimmune diseases).
Task-Based Activities Activity A: Draw the scheme of the cell-mediated immunity. Activity B: Draw the scheme of the thymus dependent humoral immunity. Activity C: Draw the scheme of antibodies production in primary and secondary immune response. Activity D: Draw the scheme of the cytokine regulation of the immune response.
11. Characteristics of Oxygen-dependent and Oxygen-independent killing mechanism, mediators. 12. Characteristics of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. 13. Characteristics of the main components of complement. 14. Main pathways of C3 activation. 15. Biological effects of complement activation. 16. Formation of membrane attack complex. 17. Cell lysis by complement. 18. The pathogenesis of many diseases is associated with cytotoxic reactions. Enumerate the diseases and explain, why?
Task based activities. Activity A: Draw the scheme of complement activation. Activity B: Draw the scheme of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity.
6. Definition of Allograft. 7. Definition of Xenograft. 8. Classification of transplantation antigens. 9. The characteristic of transplantation antigens. 10. Stages of immune response in Grafts rejection. 11. Types of Grafts rejection, their characteristic. 12. Classification of Allograft Rejection. 13. Types of Host versus graft reaction (HVGR). 14. Cause and characteristic of Hyperacute rejection HVGR. 15. Characteristic and mechanisms of Acute rejection HVGR. 16. Characteristic and mechanisms of Chronic rejection HVGR. 17. Cause and characteristic of Graft versus host reaction. 18. Prevention of graft rejection. 19. Principles of donor and recipient selection. 20. Main principles of immunosuppressive therapy.
Task-based activities. Activity A: Draw the scheme of the Acute rejection HVGR. Activity B: Draw the scheme of the Graft versus host reaction.
Practical skills due A student should know the principles of donor and the recipient selection. A student should know the principles of graft rejection prevention.
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Motivation section: Blood transfusion is an important clinical procedure for any doctor. Knowledge of blood antigens and immune mechanisms allows to prevent blood transfusion reactions and hemolytic disease of the newborn.
Task-based activities. Activity A: Write the table of permitted variants of blood transfusion. Activity B: Draw the scheme of the Rh conflict of the newborn.
Practical skills due A student should be able to detect the patients blood group. A student should know the principles of donor and the recipient selection.
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Task-based activities. Activity A: umbilical blood of newborn contains Ig M to cytomegalovirus. Explain, what does it mean? Activity B: umbilical blood of newborn contains Ig G to herpes virus. Explain, what does it mean?
16. Explain principles of cell therapy. 17. Explain the advantage of immunotherapy by monoclonal antibodies to tumor antigens.
Task-based activities. Activity A: Draw the scheme of antitumor immunity. Activity B: Write the immunogramm in patient with cancer.
Practical skills due A student should know main principles of immune diagnostics and immunotherapy of cancer.
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24. The characteristics of the most importent cytokines, IL-1, IL-2, IL-3, TNF-, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8 (cell sources, main cell targets, main actions). 25. The characteristics of the interferons (cell sources, main cell targets, main actions). 26. Definition of innate and adaptive immunity. 27. Classification and characteristics of the protecting constitutional factors. 28. Peculiarities of adaptive immunity. 29. Phases of humoral immune response. 30. Characteristics of the primary and secondary immune response. 31. Dynamics of antibody production in immune response. 32. Peculiarities of cell mediated immunity. 33. Definition of the immunological memory. 34. Characteristics of the thymus-independent immune response, its peculiarities. 35. Classification of cytotoxic reactions. 36. Properties of NK-cells and killer cells. 37. Cytotoxicity by macrophages: classification, mediators. 38. Characteristics of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. 39. Characteristics of the main components of complement. 40. Main pathways of C3 activation and biological effects of complement activation. 41. B-cell immunity pathologies. 42. Pathologies of T-cell immunity. 43. Definition of transplantation immunity. 44. Classification and characteristic of grafts types. 45. Classification and characteristic of transplantation antigens. 46. Types of grafts rejection, there characteristic. 47. Classification of allograft rejection, there characteristic. 48. Reason and characteristic of graft versus host reaction.
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49. Prevention of graft rejection. 50. Characteristic of ABO blood group system. 51. Characteristic of Rhesus (Rh) system. 52. Classification and characteristic of blood transfusions sources. 53. Indications for blood transfusion. 54. Classification of blood transfusion complications. 55. Prevention of blood transfusion reactions. 56. Permitted variants of blood transfusion. 57. Principles of Rh incompatibility treatment. 58. The immune system development in embryogenesis. 59. Characteristic of critical period of babys Immune system development. 60. Definition of passive immunity. 61. Preventive mechanisms for babys protection from developing diseases and infections. 62. Peculiarities of babys Immune system development. 63. Characteristic of immune theories of old age. 64. Normal changes in immune system that occurs in elderly. 65. Pathologies in elderly. 66. Effector mechanisms in tumor immunity. 67. Classification and characteristic of tumor-specific antigens. 68. Tumor evasion of the Immune system. 69. Characteristic of tumor cell. 70. Immune disorders in tumor. 71. Modern methods of immunotherapy in tumor.
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