シャドーイング練習: Innate Immune System: Simple Overview (Classification, General Factors) - Immunology - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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Hello and welcome to another video.
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This video is mainly going to be about the innate immune system.
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Now, your immune system uses two main strategies to defeat any type of unwanted invaders.
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One of the strategies is called the innate immune system and the other one is called the acquired immune system.
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The innate immune system is mainly present since birth and is therefore sometimes also called the natural immune system.
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While the acquired, however, forms during a person's lifetime and is therefore sometimes also called the adaptive.
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Now just remember that the baby also has some type of acquired immune system.
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I just put the baby there to show you that you've always had the innate immune system ever since you were born.
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So now let's put this to practice.
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Imagine we have three different types of bacteria, right?
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The innate immune system is what we call non-specific because it actually works against any type of agents equally.
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The adaptive however works very specific as you see right here.
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And not only that, upon defeating the bacteria, you gain some kind of immunological memory,
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which usually becomes enhanced upon repeated exposure to the same agents.
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The innate immunity doesn't really have that.
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And so let's see how that works.
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We mainly classify the innate immune system into three different types.
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The first is what we call general factors.
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And we've got the cellular factors and also factors and humoral factors.
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The general factors include physiological barriers at the portal of entry like the skin and mucous membranes.
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And they're usually, analogically enough, the first line of defense.
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Next we have the pyrogenic reactions.
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Now don't get scared if you haven't heard this term before.
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I'll get more into this later when I talk about the macrophages mainly.
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pyrogenic reactions often referred to as fever.
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Some viruses and bacterias cannot really replicate optimally because the body changes its temperature.
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So that's why we called it the general factors because it works generally by increasing the temperature.
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Another general factors are secretion.
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You know, secretion of different enzymes, fatty acids.
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The cellular Some of the factors are your own microbiota fighting for space in food.
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Phagocytosis by cells like neutrophils and macrophages.
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They do that by the different receptors they have on the surface.
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We also got natural killer cells.
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They're really important for the antiviral immune response.
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These cells can bind to the surface of antigens by using toll-like receptors, which usually lead to inflammatory response.
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Humeral factors which include the complement system and the interference.
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Now I know this seems a lot but trust me it all gets logical once you understand the concepts.
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In my opinion
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if you want to learn immunology properly you need to understand
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the different parts individually before you can understand the whole concept together in a system.
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And that's what I'm aiming to show you, everything individually first and then put them all together and show you how this works in a system system.
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Alright, so in this video I'm mainly going to focus on the general factors
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because those are really important factors to start with when you want to understand immunology.
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Now imagine these are your epithelial cells.
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Let's say this is your skin for example.
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The first one includes physical barrier where bacteria cannot really enter because of the tight junctions these cells really have.
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Another mechanism is when the bacteria can't enter because of secreted products,
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could be free fatty acids released by your gastrointestinal tract or enzymes released at the mucous membrane.
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So let's do it like that.
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In the saliva, sweat glands and tears we have something called lysozyme
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which once secreted out they break down the peptidoglycan layer of the bacterial cell wall.
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Next you know the gastrointestinal tract?
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You got some cells in the walls of your stomach called parietal and chief cells.
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Chief cells can release pepsin which breaks down the proteins of certain bacteria.
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And parietal cells mainly release hydrochloric acid for lowering the pH.
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We can also have defensins in the gastrointestinal tract.
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The list goes on and on.
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The point is that we secrete out quite a lot of substances as a part of our general innate immunity.
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Some bacteria can actually get through all of this mess without even getting hurt, and those are the bacteria that usually make us sick.
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Alright, so what else do we have?
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You know the normal microbiota you have in your body?
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They actually protect you by making a hard environment for the foreign bacteria to grow in, by taking up space in food for example.
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So that's mainly the general factors I wanted to talk about.
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Now from the cellular factors, we've already talked about the microbiota, limiting the pathogenic bacteria from growing.
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In my next video we will look at what toleric receptors are and how phagocytosis happens in details and steps in inflammation.
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Natural killer cells has a cytotoxic mechanism
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and I feel like it's more logical to talk about it later
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when I talk about the cellular immune response as it kind of fits more there.
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Alright, so let's look at these.

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覚えておきたい単語とフレーズ

  • Innate immune system:自然免疫系。「生まれつき備わっている免疫システム」と説明されています。
  • Acquired immune system:獲得免疫系。「生涯で形成される免疫システム」のことで、adapted(適応した)とも言い換えられます。
  • Nonspecific:非特異的。「どんな侵入者にも同じように働く」という意味で使われています。
  • Immunological memory:免疫記憶。「一度戦った病原体を覚えておく能力」を指します。

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