Notes in Allergy & Hypersensitivity🦠 LECTURE 9

To Subscribe, use this Key


Status Last Update Fields
Published 01/07/2025 What is an Allergy?
Published 01/07/2025 What is the following definition reffering to?Damaging immune response by the body to a substance (e.g. food, pollen, fur, dust) t…
Published 01/07/2025 What does allergy unnecessarily trigger?- increase in what 2 things?
Published 01/07/2025 What are the two types of allergic response?
Published 01/07/2025 What is a local allergic response?
Published 01/07/2025 What is a systemwide allergic response?
Published 01/07/2025 What are examples of local allergic responses?(3)
Published 01/07/2025 What is an example of a systemwide allergy?
Published 01/07/2025 What is hypersensitivity?
Published 01/07/2025 What does hypersensitivity result from?
Published 01/07/2025 The following defintion is reffering to what?An immune disorder caused by an inappropriate response to antigens that are not necessarily pat…
Published 01/07/2025 Hypersensitivites are divided into 3 categories, how do these categories differ?
Published 01/07/2025 Allergy is an example of a {{c1::hypersensitivity}} disorder, and the substances (antigens) that cause allergies are known as {{c1::allergens}}.
Published 01/07/2025 What are allergens?
Published 01/07/2025 Antigens that cause allergyWhat is this definition referring to?
Published 01/07/2025 When are antigens more likely to cause bad allergy?
Published 01/07/2025 What are the 4 categories of hypersensitivity?
Published 01/07/2025 Describe type I: antibody mediated hypersensitvity(4)- caused by which antibodies?- this antibody binds to variable regions on? that then binds to whi…
Published 01/07/2025 What type of hypersensitivity is an allergy?
Published 01/07/2025 When do healthy individuals generally produce IgE antibodies?
Published 01/07/2025 What is one requirement the allergen must have to be able to cause cross-linking?Give an example of a structure that is perfect for this. 
Published 01/07/2025 What is atopy?what type of disposition leading to production of elevated levels of which antibody?
Published 01/07/2025 What is the following definition reffering to?Genetic disposition to develop an allergic reaction and produce elevated levels of IgE in response to an…
Published 01/07/2025 What happens on first exposure of allergen? And then re-exposure to the same allergen.After first exposure to antigen allergen: - production of w…
Published 01/07/2025 As degranulation occurs and vasoactive amines are released, what does the inflammatory response entail that eventually results in disease?(6)
Published 01/07/2025 Describe the asthmatic response (4) 
Published 01/07/2025 During the asthmatic response, what is contraction of bronchial and smooth muscle mediated by?
Published 01/07/2025 During the asthmatic response, histamine binds to a H1 receptor where?
Published 01/07/2025 In the asthmatic response: when an individual feels a congested feeling in the nose/throat, why is this ?
Published 01/07/2025 Upon degranulation, what is the name of the enzyme that intiates enzymatic breakdown of p________ in the plasma membrane?
Published 01/07/2025 Give 2 inflammatory mediators that are 1000X more active than histamine.
Published 01/07/2025 Why do some responses in asthma take longer to develop? (5)
Published 01/07/2025 Describe the type II: cytotoxic hypersensitivity response:- which antibodies are involved?-  which 3 adaptive immune responses trigger destructio…
Published 01/07/2025 How can transfuse reactions result in hypersensitivity disorder?
Published 01/07/2025 What is haemolytic disease of the newborn? (3)
Published 01/07/2025 What happens in malaria?
Published 01/07/2025 What is drug-induced haemolytic anaemia?
Published 01/07/2025 Describe type III: Immune-complex mediated hypersensitivity disorder(4)- degranulation of? triggered by activation of which system? activation of whic…
Published 01/07/2025 In healthy individuals, immune complexes of antibody and antigens are usually cleared by what?
Published 01/07/2025 Where can immune complexes be deposited?
Published 01/07/2025 Desposition of immune complexes in kidney can lead to what?
Published 01/07/2025 Describe type IV: cell-mediated hypersensitivity- mediated by which cells?- requires these cells to be what to antigen? what phase does this happen in…
Published 01/07/2025 After how long do type IV hypersensitivity symptoms appear?
Published 01/07/2025 What are the effects of macrophage activation?(4)
Published 01/07/2025 What are examples of serious conditions that can include a cough?
Published 01/07/2025 What could trigger coughing?(3)
Published 01/07/2025 What are the red flags associated with coughing? (10)
Published 01/07/2025 In humans, what are leukotrienes thought to contribute to?
Published 01/07/2025 What is the following definition reffering to?Red blood cells that become coated in metabolites trigger immune responses that cause a breakdown of tho…
Published 01/07/2025 In type III hypersensitivity, what triggers degranulation?
Published 01/07/2025 What is type IV (cell mediated) hypersensitivity also known as?DTH is purely _____ mediated
Published 01/07/2025 Describe the sensitisation phase in type IV hypersensitivity:what is triggered during initial contact with antigen presented by an APCWhat is secreted…
Published 01/07/2025 what does the effector phase involve in type IV hypersensitivity:what does the sensitised T cell produce upon re-exposure to the antigen?what does thi…
Published 01/07/2025 what are the inducers of type IV hypersensitivity?
Published 01/07/2025 what are the diseases resulting from type III hypersensitivity?
Published 01/07/2025 87214aaf8f61425fa15fc45ae7ac1699-ao-1
Published 01/07/2025 d0013913c30947c2b4ddbb122d3ed502-ao-1
Published 01/07/2025 What are the allergens associated with type I hypersensitivity?
Published 01/07/2025 51df99f3e31040df83054c58a1bd8df7-ao-1
Status Last Update Fields