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This video is about Hypersensitivity and its classification.
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Hypersensitivity reactions occur when the immune system responds excessively to an antigen, leading to tissue damage.
Occurs when IgE antibodies on mast cells trigger anaphylactic shock.
Genetic predisposition plays a role in allergic hypersensitivity.
Involves IgG or IgM antibodies targeting cell surface antigens.
Immune complexes (antigen-antibody complexes) form and deposit in tissues, causing inflammation.
Involves Th1 and T-cytotoxic (T-cyt) cells triggering local inflammation.
Introduction
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hello again this video is going to be
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about hypersensitivity imagine there’s
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the sky which gets infected by bacteria
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or virus the adaptive immune response
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provides a specific protection against
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infections with bacteria viruses
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parasites or even fungi some immune
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responses however give rise to an
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excessive or inappropriate reaction this
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is usually referred to as
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hypersensitivity the term
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hypersensitivity evolved about 100 years
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ago where they would sensitize an animal
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with antigens like that so the animal
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would produce antibodies against an
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antigen then they would expose this pre
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senseless animal with a systemic antigen
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the resulting outcome was called
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anaphylaxis and became the term that
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described the immediate hypersensitivity
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reaction Coombs and gel in 1963 came up
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with a way to classify the different
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types of hypersensitivity we have they
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came up with four different types type
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one was termed immediate
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hypersensitivity reaction and is
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characterized by the production of IgE
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antibodies against foreign proteins that
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are commonly present in the environment
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like Pollan for example these usually
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sit on mast cells type 2 was called
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antibody mediated hypersensitivity
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responses and that occurs when IgM more
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IgG antibodies are produced taking
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surface antigens on the cells of the
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body
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type 3 is immune complex diseases and
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that involves formation of immune
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complex in the industry regulation and
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then the last one is type 4 and that one
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was called cell mediated reactions where
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T says toxic cell and T helper cell 1
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at the main cause of that so now let’s
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start with type 1 and then work our way
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down from there so type 1
Type 1 – Immediate Hypersensitivity Responses
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hypersensitivity as mentioned is also
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called IgE mediated hypersensitivity
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since reaction typically rely on IgE
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antibody which is nearly always gonna be
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found on the surface of mast cells or
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basophils even which in terms make sense
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since the typical reactions of type 1
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hypersensitivity
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leads to an effect
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shock caused by an activation of these
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cells this is the most common type of
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allergy so there are a couple of ways to
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induce a type 1 hypersensitivity
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reaction one of them is inhaling it
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could be different types of pollen for
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example or even particles from animals
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for example other include foods like
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fish or dreams like milk or even the
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physical contact could induce an
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allergic reaction having an IgE mediated
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reaction against the things that
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normally don’t trigger the immune
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response now having an IgE mediated
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reaction against things that normally
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don’t trigger the immune system it’s
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usually mostly because that person has a
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genetic predisposition towards
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developing a certain allergic
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hypersensitivity so let’s see what
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happens so let’s say there’s a person
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that has never been exposed to Poland
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before right but that person has a
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genetic predisposition towards
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developing an allergic hyper sensitivity
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towards pollen so let’s say this person
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breathed in a little bit of pollen for
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the first time now let’s take a look at
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the surface of the lungs of this person
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to see what happens beneath the surface
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there are going to be cells like
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dendritic cells or macrophages now as
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the person breathe in poem the antigen
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presenting cells will find it foreign
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and phagocytose it and then presented an
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MHC class 2 molecule and then it will go
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to the lymph nodes through the efferent
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lymph vessels and remember the efferent
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lymph vessels is gonna drain the
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interstitial fluid from different
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tissues in your body right so both the
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poem and the dendritic cell is going to
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go through the efferent lymph vessels to
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the lymph node and the lymph node looks
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like this right or looks sort of like
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this it’s gonna have
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efferent lymphatic vessels and efferent
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thematic vessels it’s also going to have
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medulla it’s going to have the power
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cortex or the T cell zone where the T
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cells are and in outer cortex where the
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B cells are which are composed of
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primary and secondary follicle now when
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they reach length what happens remember
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that the body reacts to
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paalam the same way as it reacts to any
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type of microorganisms so it’s going to
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produce antibodies against that pole so
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we need T helper cell to to make
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antibodies right so the professional
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antigen presenting cell will present the
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phone to a naive T helper cell using MSE
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– which will bind to a t-cell receptor
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where the cd4 will dock to the MHC 2
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molecule which will cause the cd3 to
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induce a signal internally inside the
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cell this complex of TCR MHC 2 is the
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first activation signal to activate the
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naive T helper cell now remember there
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are three activation signals required to
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activate the or to differentiate the
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naive T helper cell all right
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the second activation signal is through
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cd28 and b7 molecule and then the third
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thing knows when it receives into the
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kin for from other T helper 2 cells or
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mast cells or even buzz opiates can also
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release interleukin 4 and then it will
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release interacting – which will bind to
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its own surface this is called an
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autocrine function and this causes the
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cell to proliferate and differentiate
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into effector T helper cell 2 which will
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express cd40 ligand and will also
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release interlockings
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interlock intent suppresses the
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activation of T helper cell 1 remember
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that T helper cell – and he helped set
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one kind of works against each other one
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of them proliferate the other one is
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suppressed interlocking four five and
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six acts on B cells and I’ll show you
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how in a second so while this is
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happening a naive B cell that happens to
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have a receptor on surface that matches
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the poem undergoes a b-cell receptor
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mediated endocytosis and expresses it on
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MHC type 2 right and then it’s going to
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travel to the secondary follicle and
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then it’s going to go as close to the
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para cortex as possible to get some help
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by the T helper cell to to proliferate
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and differentiate you can find it going
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into the actual Parker Texas
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well in some cases so now the naive
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b-cell expresses the poll on MHC type 2
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right it expresses it to our th2 cell
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that initially got activated by an
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antigen-presenting cell that presented
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the same type of pollen now keep in mind
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that D cells are also professional
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antigen presenting cells and can help
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differentiate naive T helper cells as
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well so now remember in the lymph node
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cd40 ligand binds to cd4 T this is the
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second activation signal for the B cell
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the first being when the B cell actually
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binds to the pole so when the B cell
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binds the poll has the first activation
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signal when the cd4 t binds to see the
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for ligand as the second activation
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signal the third activation signal for
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the B sub to start proliferating that is
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receiving intelligence from the T helper
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cells and the T helper cell can release
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interlocking for release in 2005 in 11:6
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and ended up in ten or even receive
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interlocking two or in different gamma
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from th one cell to differentiate into a
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plasma cell that secretes antibodies and
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two memory cells now keep in mind that
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it doesn’t receive all of those
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interactions together it actually
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receives a specific interlocking
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according to what antibodies we need so
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let’s say we need more IgA for instance
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then we would receive more interlocking
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v if we need AGG we would get in
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different gamma or even interlocking for
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King gets us a subtype of IgG as well
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our GM is produced without the help of T
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cells and our Gd as well since they are
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part of b cell development but if we
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need a GE remember IgE is going to be a
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part of the type 1 hypersensitivity we
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get them by receiving interlocking for
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and they have a really high affinity to
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sit on the surface of mast cells and
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basophils
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this stage of hypersensitivity is called
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a sensitization stage and that stage is
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when you actually produce the antibodies
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right so now this guy is sensitized
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right that means we’ve made antibodies
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against
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the poll on this stage of being
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sensitized usually last from six months
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to five years meaning that it is
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possible to lose the antibodies we
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actually produced for the problem if we
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don’t get exposed to pole
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within that period within six months to
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five years and after that after the
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period we’re done with sensitization
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stage if we have walked around for a
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long time without being exposed to
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pollen we will lose the antibodies and
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then we’ll go back to not being
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sensitized and then after that once
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you’re exposed to pollen again you will
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then go through the sensitization stage
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again so that’s mainly how a
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sensitization functions so now the
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second stage is the second exposure
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remember we will already have mast cells
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with IgE type antibodies against pollen
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right now when this person breathes in
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Poland again usually requires more than
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this one it triggers the mast cells into
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releasing and mediators like histamine
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which causes vasodilation for example
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and also increases the permeability for
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water and cells to go out from from the
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blood to the interstellar space in the
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area where the mast cells are this is
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usually good if you have an infection of
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certain type of micro organisms but when
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in this case when the case is only
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pollen which really isn’t that dangerous
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for the body it’s very bad because it
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causes unnecessary damage to your
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tissues what also could happen is that
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it increases the permeability of blood
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vessels and that causes more water to
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flow in and you get more interstitial
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fluid than normal and that could cause
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edema for example it also causes
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bronchial constriction so the person
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can’t really breathe too well other
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mediators are heparin and trypsin they
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have a sort of the same function also it
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secretes out interleukin 5 which
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activates a Arsenal fails and get IgA
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and also to Myrna Craig factory which
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promotes inflammation and cause fever so
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that’s mostly how type 1
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hypersensitivity works it it’s called an
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immediate hypersensitive response
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because once you’re sensitized and you
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breathe in that
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you breathe in Poland you see all of
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those things that happen they happen
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instantly because you already have
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antibodies against Paul so that’s type
Type 2 – Antibody Mediated Hypersensitivity Responses
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one now over to type two type two is
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what we call antibody mediated immune
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response against antigens on the surface
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of your cells and they’re either IgM or
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IgG now remember normally you don’t
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really have that because you just don’t
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want your body attacking your own cells
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and there are possible reasons for this
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one of them is if you’re infected by
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complex viruses imagine a cell right and
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the cell gets infected by a complex
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virus and complex viruses usually gets
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out from the set once they replicate
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they usually get out of the cell by what
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we call viral budding right so when they
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integrate their own DNA into our own
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genome to produce their proteins and
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these proteins are usually attached on
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the surface of the cell and the membrane
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to prepare for viral budding when they
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when the virus actually fuses with the
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cell membrane to get out and as a result
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from that you tend to have antigens on
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the surfaces cell yet what can happen is
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that antibodies can can actually form a
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complex on the surface of the cell and
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what they have now now we have type 2
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antibody mediated hypersensitive
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response because you see antibodies on
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the surface of the cell other possible
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reasons are draw colleges if you take
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and it’s also drug penicillin for
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example these drugs has a tendency to
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also sit on the surface of the cell if
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that happens and you’re allergic to
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drugs
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you also get secondary immune response
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other types are transfusion reaction so
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imagine a person a having blood type A
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meaning if they have a antigens on the
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surface of the red blood cells and
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another person a person B has a blood
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type B which has B antigens on the
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surface of the red blood cells but they
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also have
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and tea a so antibodies against a
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antigens so if person B is in need of
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blood and for some reason receives blood
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from person a what then is gonna happen
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that an ta is going to react to the
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person a red blood cells and now we also
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have type 2 hypersensitivity the fourth
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way is the apt to immune reactions for
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example where we need to look at t-cell
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tolerance T cells get controlled so that
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they don’t react to our own cells and T
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cell tolerance happens to places it
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could be central tolerance that happens
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in the thymus where immature T cells are
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exposed to self antigen and is killed if
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they do react to our own antigen but
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this process isn’t perfect though and
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some can actually escape to the
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periphery today to the secondary
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lymphoid organs where the peripheral
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tolerance happens here T regulatory
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cells and direct inactivation happen if
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it escapes from here to we then get out
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to human disease now what could happen
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if an antibody binds to the surface of a
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cell one thing is that the classical
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pathway could happen where the c1 binds
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to the FC part of the antibody remember
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this these are usually IgG type
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antibodies now c1 can cleave c4 into c4
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BC for a and C one can cleave C to the C
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to B and C to a and these to C 2 C 4 BC
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to be work as a c3 convertase which
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cleaves c3 into c through a and C
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through be either it binds to the t3
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convertase and come c5 convertase or it
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binds to the surface of the cell itself
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and and works in absanon now c5 can get
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cleaved now what can happen
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you see those c2 AAC for a c3 and c5 a
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these guys worked as chemotaxis and
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remember these had tax in their name so
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they lead the way for white blood cells
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to come this is a neutral field for
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example they can bind to the c3 be that
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works at an optional
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and also or they can bind to the
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antibody directed the complement system
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never happened
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now this neutrophil can either take a
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site this cell or if it if the cell is
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too big or if it can’t focus at the cell
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it gets frustrated and releases
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mediators like proteases and peroxidase
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to kill the cell
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another way is you know c5 b c6 can bind
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t7 c8 and c9 and now we get a structure
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called membrane attack complex and that
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can can make a lot of holes on the cell
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that ruins the environ ternal
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environment of the cell and that can
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cause the cell to die other things that
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could happen is you know instead of a
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neutrophil maybe a a natural killer cell
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can come natural killer cell also have
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receptor for c3 B and also receptors for
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the FC region of an IgG you know they
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can also release you know granzymes and
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and preference to kill the cell
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so you see type 2 antibody mediated
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hypersensitivity response is is more or
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less the it targets your own cells by a
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lot of reasons
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so that was mainly type 2
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hypersensitivity type 3 is what we call
Type 3 – Immune Complex Diseases
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immune complex disease where immune
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complexes like these are formed in our
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blood
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notice type 2 and type 3 are exactly the
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same the only difference is is that type
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2 is related to antibodies that are
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bound on the server of cells type 3
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however is with antibodies bind to
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free-floating antigens usually in the
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blood so if it’s in the blood it usually
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causes a systemic response or it could
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be local if you in your lungs for
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example so let’s say this is a blood
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vessel right with some immune complexes
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in it normally your liver and spleen
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gets rid of these once they arrive to
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either one of them but some may never
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even reach them some may may get stuck
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on the walls of the blood vessel right
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somewhat like like this for example now
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what can happen the complement system
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can bind just like shortly before and
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they can release chemotaxis like
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neutrophil
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could could bind and release local
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granules that cause tissue damage and
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local inflammation and that local
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inflammation Peaks usually in 6 to 12
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hours even bakso fields can even bind
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and they can release granules and
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vasoactive amines and even platelets can
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come along and they can aggregate as a
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result from it I don’t know if you’re
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familiar with the physiology of
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platelets but they usually tend to
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aggregate on rough areas and that’s
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exactly what the immune complexes are
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once they’re stuck so that’s why they
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aggregate on them they could even
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activate mast cells in area that can
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release histamine all of this mess right
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here is termed archers reaction by
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nicholas maurice arthur who discovered
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all of this for the type 3
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hypersensitivity the other type of
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reaction of type 3 hypersensitivity is
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well called serum sickness disease so
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imagine you’re out walking and then
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unfortunately a snake comes in by to you
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and it secretes its venom into your
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bloodstream and if you’re quick enough
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and reach the closest healthcare and
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they luckily has an antidote they can
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inject the anti snake venom which you’ll
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have new blood stream so now immune cup
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free immune complexes or are also for in
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your blood so that is also type 3
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hypersensitivity immune complex disease
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so that was type 3 now last one is type
Type 4 – Cell Mediated Reactions
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4 hypersensitivity also known as cell
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mediated reactions where T helper cell 1
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and T set toxic cell are involved mainly
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and can cause a lot of inflammation in
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the skin one famous example is the
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tuberculin skin test or the among dose
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test this test is to check if you’ve
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been infected with the Mycobacterium
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tuberculosis before and these bacterias
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release a protein called tuberculin and
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if we’ve been infected with this
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bacteria before we should react
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tuberculin fast so let’s say you’ve
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never been infected with this bacteria
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right where’s where sensitization stage
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and the second exposure still still
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counts
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this test start off by injecting a
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Tibetan into the skin Langerhans cells
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which is a skin dendritic cell will flag
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aside it and then run off to your
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afferent lymphatic vessels so now
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Langerhans cells has phagocytosed the
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tobacco Lin right and then it’s going to
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present it on an MHC type 2 molecule and
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then it’s going to travel to the lymph
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node to present it to a naive T helper
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cell a naive T helper cells gonna use
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its cd4 to to kind of dock to the MHC
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type 2 molecule and then C D 3 which is
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also a part of the T cell receptor is
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going to send a positive signal to the
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cell nucleus internally so that is the
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first signal to activate in
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differentiate the T helper cell the
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second signals between b7 and cd28
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Langerhans cells only expresses b7 once
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it’s reached the lymph node keep that in
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mind and then it’s going to release
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interlocking 12 that’s a third signal
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remember look at the name it’s called
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cell mediated reaction that’s why we
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need T helper cell 1 because T helper
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cell 1 help activate macrophages to
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induce inflammation but they also help
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activate T cytotoxic cell which is a
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part of the cell marriage reactions
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alright so we need T helper cell 1 so
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now after interlocking 12 has bound to
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the surface of the 90 helper cell it’s
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going to release interlocking 2 which is
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going to bind on its own surface that is
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called an outer cream function and
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that’s going to help it grow and
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differentiate and undergo clonal
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expansion so now the th1 cell it’s an
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inflammatory t-cell that activates
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macrophages by releasing interferon
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gamma which also causes production of
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IgG and also decreases the th to
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production to focus more on the th one
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it’s also going to release interleukin 2
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which helps B and T cells to grow so a
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dendritic cell is very good at cross
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presentation keep that in mind because
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then drilling cells are very big and
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they have these processes which can
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reach to a lot of cells and activate
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them as Immelt
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so that’s what it usually does it’s also
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going to present the a part of the table
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clean on the MHC class 1 which is going
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to attach to the tea set of toxic t-cell
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receptor because remember they have cd8
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they don’t have cd4 and cd8 helps dock
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to the MHC class 1 model so that’s also
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going to induce a signal to the cd3
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that’s the first activation signal the
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second activation signal is b7 and cd28
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and then the effector T helper cell 1 is
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going to release interacting 2 and
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interferon gamma they both are going to
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help the T cytotoxic cell become an
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effector T cell toxic cell which is
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going to express what is called fast
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ligands and you know any type of cells
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that are infected is going to express
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FAS and that’s exactly why the T
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cytotoxic cell has FAS ligand because
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it’s gonna bind to FAS the receptor and
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in and release preference which pervades
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the the membrane of the cell and
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granzymes which usually fragments the
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DNA of the cell and causes it to die now
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remember that th 1 and T so toxic cells
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also becomes memory cells and memory
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cells are the ones that can give you a
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reaction really fast right so now we’ve
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done with the sensitization stage and if
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we get exposed to tobacco again after
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some time about 28 days for example so
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it gets in right so let’s say Langerhans
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cells gets its most probably longer than
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cells it’s gonna mediate the first time
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because in the skin you get a you can
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have a lot of drunken cells which is the
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skin dendritic cells but this time
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though it doesn’t really need to go to
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the lymph node because a naive T helper
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cell the ninetieth boxing cells have
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already been been presented and now we
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have memory cells of to berkeley and
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these memory cells can either be
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scattered around your skin for example
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or they can be in the in the lymph nodes
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now all this dendritic cells need to do
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is to present birth cling to the own
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image
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to the memory t-cells th one gets
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activated and releases interferon gamma
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that activates macrophages which is
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specialized in inflammation so this one
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is going to release interleukin one like
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in sixth and terminal critical for alpha
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which acts as pro-inflammatory meaning
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they’re going to increase the
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permeability of the blood vessel that
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causes water and also white blood cells
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to to flow in and cause edema which is a
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swelling due to too much fluid in the
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interstitial space another thing that
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could happen is that it could get inside
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the cell or even between the cells and
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that could cause the effector T
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cytotoxic cell to actually kill the cell
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that are infected with the tuberculin so
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I hope this video at least helped you a
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little bit to understand the
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hypersensitivity and I hope this was
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helpful
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