Immune system acquired immunity

Local infection of a plant will stimulate the development of natural defense mechanisms often resulting in an immune reaction toward a variety of pathogens. Certain chemicals can also trigger the same biochemical reactions in plants. Among the chemicals found to induce this systemic acquired resistance (SAR) are thieno[2,3-rf [ 1,2,3]-thiadiazoles 195 <1999JPR341>. 

Impla.nta.ble Ports. The safest method of accessing the vascular system is by means of a vascular access device (VAD) or port. Older VAD designs protmded through the skin. The totally implanted ports are designed for convenience, near absence of infection, and ease of implantation. Ports allow dmgs and fluids to be deUvered directiy into the bloodstream without repeated insertion of needles into a vein. The primary recipients of totally implanted ports are patients receiving chemotherapy, bolus infusions of vesicants, parenteral nutrition, antibiotics, analgesics, and acquired immune disease syndrome (AIDS) medications. 

Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Human immunodeficiency vims (HIV) causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which has no cure. HIV infects the cells of the human immune system, such as T-lymphocytes, monocytes, and macrophages. After a long period of latency and persistent infection, it results in the progressive decline of the immune system, and leads to full-blown AIDS, resulting in death. 

AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is the final stage of disease caused by infection with HIV. In this stage, the vims infection has severely affected the immune system, causing a depletion of CD4+ T-helper cells. AIDS is characterized by the manifestation of typical diseases caused by opportunistic infections (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, CMV retinitis, candidiasis of the esophagus, cerebral toxoplasmosis), neurological manifestations, cachexia, or certain tumors (Kaposi sarcoma of the skin, B-cell lymphoma). 

However, several situations can be anticipated in which support of the immune system is required. These include congenital defects in the immune repertoire, acquired immune deficiencies such as in HIV infection, but also situations in which the immune system is compromised after treatment of patients, e.g., after radiation or chemotherapy. 

These disorders are all acquired conditions with no evidence of an hereditary basis. Most of them involve inflammation of the skeletal muscle itself (myositis) (Figure 17), though this may sometimes occur because of initial targeting of the muscle vasculature or connective tissue. Many instances of myositis are classed as idiopathic disorders, in that the precise mechanisms of muscle degeneration are not known, but is widely accepted that these syndromes are associated with abnormal function of the immune system. The syndromes of polymyositis (PM) and derma-... 

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Infection with a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1 and HIV-2 see Chapter 3) can cause the destruction of the TH cell, which is the eritieal eell of the immune system. This leads to the condition known as acquired immune deficieney syndrome (AIDS). At present, it is still not known why, in some cases, infection with HIV leaves the immune system intact whereas in others it is irreversibly destroyed, giving rise to AIDS. 

The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized in 1981, and described in a cohort of young homosexual men with significant immune deficiency. Since then, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has been clearly identified as the major cause of AIDS.1 HIV-2 is much less prevalent than HIV-1, but also causes AIDS. HIV primarily targets CD4+ lymphocytes, which are critical to proper immune system function. If left untreated, patients experience a prolonged asymptomatic period followed by rapid, progressive immunodeficiency. Therefore, most complications experienced by patients with AIDS involve opportunistic infections and cancers. 

Inflammation is the normal host response to infection or injury that mediates immune elimination of pathogens and tissue repair. Inflammatory processes include increased production of cytokines, chemokines, nitric oxide, and eicosanoids by the innate immune system in conjunction with altered leukocyte homing, all of which greatly impact acquired immunity. Aberrant inflammatory responses evoke both acute injury such... 

Rodent and human immunology has served to guide our understanding of the mammalian immune system, where the highly conserved innate immune system, and the more complex acquired or adaptive immune system, interact to protect the host from infection. 

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