FDA Regulations
Immune System
Wound Healing &
Thrombosis
Cells/Organ Transplant
Complement
100

Two qualifications that define biocompatibility

What are efficacy and safety?

100

This cell is a lymphocyte that kills any cells expressing the wrong self marker or no self marker

What is a natural killer cell?

100

A scenario where you would want to induce thrombosis

What is...

- an aneurysm?

- hemorrhage?

- wound healing?

100

Somatic cells reprogrammed into a embryonic stem-cell like state

What are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)?

100

Product of all complement pathways that functions in cell lysis OR cleavage. 

What is the MAC complex?

Bonus: What is C3 convertase?

200

The organization(s) that test new medical devices

What are manufacturers?

200

The class of MHC found only on antigen presenting cells

What is MHC II?

200

These processes occur at Stage II of hemostasis 

What are coagulation and fibrin web formation?

200

Number of MHC I mismatches acceptable for organ or tissue transplants

What is 0-2?

200
The complement pathways activated by membrane / surface interactions and hydrolysis

What is the alternative pathway?

300

Type of testing that measures the harmful effects of single or multiple exposures in a <24 hour period

What is acute systemic toxicity?

300

The process that generates random diversity in T and B cell receptors

What is somatic recombination?

300

The three factors that influence thrombosis

What are stagnant / slow blood flow, hypercoagulability, and surface thrombogenicity?
300

The creation of a permanent physical barrier between transplanted cells and the host

What is immunoisolation?

300

This protein labels pathogens for phagocytosis in opsonization

What is C3b?

400

Conditions resulting in a Class 2 FDA recall

What are temporary or low severity health problems?

400

Two differences between T cell receptors and antibodies

What are...

- membrane bound vs. membrane bound and secreted

- recognize MHCs vs. bound and free targets

- monovalent vs. bivalent

- no affinity maturation

- no class switching

400

Wound healing process where myofibroblasts attach to the extracellular matrix of a wound and pull the tissue together

What is wound contraction?

400

The treatment that depletes bone marrow cells in preparation for hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) therapy

What is myeloablative conditioning?

400

Consequences of enhanced inflammation by complement

What are...

- inflammatory cytokine release?

- smooth muscle contraction?

- neutrophil recruitment?

- increased vessel permeability?

anaphalyactic shock!!

500

FDA center that would likely evaluate a new vaccine

What is the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)?

500

This is how CD4+ Th1 cells and macrophages are related (and specific examples). 

What is CD4 Th1 cells secreting/binding cytokines that recruit and activate macrophages? What are IFN-gamma/CD40 (activation), TNF-alpha and LT-alpha (extravasation), CXCL2 (recruitment). 

500

The positive feedback loop involved in wound healing.

What is a platelet plug, where release of platelet factors (ADP & serotonin) lead to formation of plug and recruitment of more platelets. 

500

These are the three kinds of organ transplant rejection and why they happen. 

What are: hyperacute rejection due to pre-existing complement-activating antibodies, acute rejection due to recipient T-cell activity, and chronic rejection due to low-grade B-cell production of donor-specific antibodies.

500

3 ways the complement system can be regulated

What are...

  1. C1 inhibition

  2. hydrolysis of unbound C4b

  3. degradation of C4b2a (C3 convertase)

  4. inhibition of C3b, hydrolysis of unbound C3b

  5. inhibition of MAC.

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