A patient has come to the emergency room in the middle of su…
A patient has come to the emergency room in the middle of summer, complaining of pain after playing a baseball game with his friends at the park. He told the nurse that he has Sickle Cell anemia. Which factors below can increase the patient’s risk for developing a sickle cell crisis? (Select all that apply)
Read DetailsQ60. The first FDA-approved humanized monoclonal antibody, a…
Q60. The first FDA-approved humanized monoclonal antibody, adalimumab (Humira), resulted in a ∼ 12% incidence of a therapeutic problem in a small percentage of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The problem was that they developed anti-therapeutic antibodies (ATA). This problem was subsequently reduced to ∼2–3% for patients receiving methotrexate which is a non-steroid anti-inflammatory and a mild immunosuppressant. What type of difference most likely led to the ATA response?
Read DetailsQ45. A Golden retriever (photo ‘A’) has cutaneous histiocyto…
Q45. A Golden retriever (photo ‘A’) has cutaneous histiocytosis, an inflammatory Lymphohistiocytic proliferative disorder that primarily involves skin and subcutis. Lesions may disappear spontaneously or regress and appear at new sites simultaneously. A biopsy of the skin (see photomicrograph ‘B’) reveals cells that are on IHC and express CD1, CD11c, MHC class II, CD4, and CD90. On transmission EM (see photomicrograph ‘C’), the tumor cells contain Birbeck granules comprised of antigen-bound Langerin (Langerin is a c-type lectin). Which of the following types of immune cells is most likely responsible for the inflammatory infiltrate in this dog?
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Q61. A researcher is studying antibody diversity developing in B cells. They observe that during V(D)J recombination, the enzyme terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) adds non-templated nucleotides at the junctions between gene segments. In which region of the antibody heavy chain is this junctional diversity most likely to directly affect the amino acid sequence?
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