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The deep nodes over the back of the calf to pierce the deep fascia in an inconstant posi- convey lymph to external iliac and thence to the para-aortic nodes discount luvox 100 mg anxiety kids. Obstruction of lymphatics results in lymphoedema (Fig buy luvox 100mg visa anxiety and panic attacks. This can be congenital, due to aberrant lymphatic formation, or acquired The deep veins of the lower limb such as post radiotherapy or following certain infections. In develop- The deep veins of the calf are the venae comitantes of the anterior and ing countries infection with Filaria bancrofti is a significant cause of posterior tibial arteries which go on to become the popliteal and lymphoedema that can progress to massive proportions requiring limb femoral veins. The deep veins form an extensive network within the reduction or even amputation. The veins and lymphatics of the lower limb 97 44 The nerves of the lower limb I Anterior superior iliac spine Inguinal ligament Lateral cutaneous External oblique aponeurosis nerve of thigh Femoral nerve Femoral artery Iliacus Femoral vein Femoral canal Psoas tendon Lacunar ligament Pubic tubercle Lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh Pectineus Iliacus Inguinal ligament Femoral nerve Pubic tubercle Nerve to sartorius To pectineus Tensor fasciae latae Pectineus To vastus lateralis Adductor longus Psoas Femoral vein To vastus intermedius Great saphenous vein and rectus femoris Femoral artery Sartorius Saphenous nerve Intermediate To vastus medialis cutaneous nerve Medial cutaneous of thigh nerve of thigh (Skin of front of thigh) (Skin of medial thigh) Rectus femoris Gracilis Obturator externus Pectineus Posterior division Adductor Adductor brevis longus Anterior division Gracilis Deep fascia (Skin of medial leg Branch to and foot) Fig. The upper diagram shows the structures that pass under the inguinal ligament Fig. The latter supply • Course: the majority of the branches of the plexus pass through the sartorius and pectineus. The latter nerve is the only branch to extend • Intra-abdominal branchesathese are described in Chapter 21. It pierces the deep fascia overlying the adductor • Femoral nerve (L2,3,4)asee below. Obese patients sometimes describe paraesthesiae over the • Origins: the anterior divisions of the anterior primary rami of lateral thigh. This is termed meralgia paraesthetica and results from L2,3,4. It descends through the iliac fossa to pass under the inguinal compartment: ligament. At this point it lies on iliacus, which it supplies, and is situ- • Anterior divisionagives rise to an articular branch to the hip joint ated immediately lateral to the femoral sheath. It branches within the as well as muscular branches to adductor longus, brevis and gra- femoral triangle only a short distance (5 cm) beyond the inguinal liga- cilis. It terminates by supplying the skin of the medial aspect of the ment. The lateral circumflex femoral artery passes through these thigh. The nerves of the lower limb I 99 45 The nerves of the lower limb II L IV L V Lumbosacral trunk Superior gluteal nerve S I (L 4, 5, S 1) Inferior gluteal nerve Fig. The nerves unite, and are joined by the lumbosacral trunk (L4,5), artery from the lateral to medial side. It leaves the popliteal fossa by anterior to piriformis. The nerve • The superior gluteal nerve (L4,5,S1)aarises from the roots of the crosses the posterior tibial artery from medial to lateral in the mid-calf sciatic nerve and passes through the greater sciatic foramen above and, together with the artery, passes behind the medial malleolus and the upper border of piriformis. In the gluteal region it runs below then under the flexor retinaculum where it divides into its terminal the middle gluteal line between gluteus medius and minimis (both branches, the medial and lateral plantar nerves. In the gluteal region it penetrates and supplies gluteus • Sural nerveaarises in the popliteal fossa and is joined by the sural maximus. It pierces the • The posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh (S1, 2, 3)apasses deep fascia in the calf and descends subcutaneously with the small through the greater sciatic foramen below piriformis. It passes behind the lateral malleolus and under the supply the skin of the scrotum, buttock and back of the thigh up to flexor retinaculum to divide into its cutaneous terminal branches the knee. It sends four motor branches and a cutaneous supply to the region by passing out of the greater sciatic foramen below pirifor- medial 3 /12 digits. It runs forwards in the pudendal plantar artery to the base of the 5th metatarsal where it divides into (Alcock’s) canal and gives off its inferior rectal branch in the superficial and deep branches. These collectively supply the skin of ischio-rectal fossa. It continues its course to the perineum and the lateral 1 /12 digits and the remaining muscles of the sole. The nerve winds around • Origins: anterior primary rami of L4,5,S1,S2,S3. In the gluteal • Branches: region it passes over the superior gemellus, obturator internus and in- • Genicular branches to the knee joint.

Such competition within antigen-presenting cells seems unlikely because CTL recognition of subdominant epitopes is not affected by IMMUNODOMINANCE WITHIN HOSTS 83 coexpression of dominant epitopes (Mylin et al luvox 100 mg free shipping anxiety symptoms 3dp5dt. The abundance of epitopes (pathogen peptides) is usually so low that competition for binding to MHC classImolecules seems very unlikely (Yewdell and Bennink 1999) generic 50mg luvox anxiety symptoms at night. Second, dominant CTL clones may directlyorindirectlysuppress sub- dominant clones. This may occur because dominant CTLs clear infected cells and associated subdominant epitopes too quickly for the weak CTL stimulation by subdominant epitopestogenerate a strong CTL response (Nowak et al. Alternatively, the CTLs may compete directly at antigen-presenting cells for stimulation. Finally, the dominant CTLs may be able to suppress subdominant clones by compe- tition for resources or by expressing suppressive cytokines. On the whole, the evidence supports the second explanation, in which dominant clones suppress subdominant clones. The strain WE stimulated a dominant response against the epitope NP118−126,whereasthestrain ESC lacked this dominant epi- tope and stimulated response against various minor epitopes including GP283−291. ClassIMHCpresents the minor epitopes in WE-infected cells, but does not stimulate significant CTL response. Importantly, CTLs spe- cific for the subdominant epitope GP283−291 lyse WE and ESC target cells to the same extent, suggesting thatthesubdominant epitope is pre- sented effectively equally on the surfaces of WE and ESC cells. Thus, the strength of the CTL response is not caused by numerical differences in epitope presentation on cell surfaces. The NP118−126-specific CTLs do not directly suppress CTLs against mi- nor epitopes, because coinfection by WE and ESC produces a significant CTL response against both NP118−126 and GP283−291,suggesting that ESC generates a CTL response against GP283−291 without interference by the WE-induced CTLs against NP118−126. Expansion of the dominant CTL clone against NP118−126 and clear- ance of WE infection occurred more rapidly than did expansion of the subdominant CTL clone against GP283−291 and clearance of ESC infection. Either WE or ESC infection activated CD8+ Tcells against the minor epi- tope, but in WE infection those minor-epitope T cells did not expand into a significant CTL response with lytic activity. It appears that, in WE infection, the fast development of CTLs against NP118−126 suppressed the viral load quickly enough that the weaker-stimulated CD8+ Tcells against GP283−291 did not have time to develop into a primary CTL re- sponse. These kinetic processes lead to indirect competition. Kinetic control suggests that immunodomination should be a quantitative phenomenon ordering epitopes into a hierarchy. An immunodomination hierarchy hasbeen demonstrated by Wettstein (1986). In addition, factors that alter the rate of CTL expansion against particular epitopes should be able to change the dominance hierarchy. Such changes in the hierarchy occur when the immune system has previously experienced an epitope. For example, if epitope A dominates epitope B in a naive host, then prior exposure only to B can reverse the dominance ranking and cause B to dominate A (Bennink and Doherty 1981; Jamieson and Ahmed 1989; Cole et al. This switch apparently occurs because secondary chal- lenge causes a more rapid CTL response, allowing CTLs against B to re- duce antigen load quickly enough to suppress a CTL response against A. CTL REPERTOIRE Why are CTL responses stronger against some epitopes than others? It could simply be that the immunodominant epitopes are expressed more commonly on cell surfaces than subdominant epitopes. However, Yewdell and Bennink (1999) summarize various lines of evidence argu- ing against a simple correlation between the abundance of presented epitopes and immunodominance, for example, the study by Weidt et al. Thus, immunodomination of CTL clones ap- pears to be influenced by biases in the CD8+ repertoire. Three important questions arise concerning CD8+ biases in the naive repertoire (Yewdell and Bennink 1999). First, does immunodomination IMMUNODOMINANCE WITHIN HOSTS 85 arise because more CD8+ cells respond to an immunodominant epi- tope or because CD8+ clones for immunodominant epitopes divide more quickly upon initial stimulation?

Edward Jenner (18th century) demonstrated that an artificial infection with a harmless cowpox is able to prevent the dangerous smallpox generic 100mg luvox with mastercard anxiety 5 things you can see. William Coley (19th century) prevented progress of malignancies by bacterial toxins (Coley 1893) 50mg luvox fast delivery anxiety videos. In 1927 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to the Austrian neurologist Julius Wagner von Jauregg, who was able to obtain improvement in patients with late stage symptomatic neurosyphilis by infecting them with the malaria parasite. Thus, infectious diseases may result in harm reduction under certain conditions: Immunomodulatory effects and direct interactions between the causative microoorganisms of infection and coinfection have been postulated to be the beneficial effector mechanisms. Human pegivirus (HPgV) is a flavivirus closely related to hepatitis C virus (Stapleton 2011, Adams 2013). Its former name GB virus (GBV-C) stems from early experiments on the transmission of acute hepatitis from humans to marmosets. One of the first source patients had the initials “G. Later on, two hepatotropic viruses, GB virus A (GBV-A) and GB virus B (GBV-B), were isolated from marmosets. Two research groups simultaneously discovered the related human pegivirus in humans with hepatitis in the mid-90s. Subsequently, HPgV has promoted a discus- sion as to whether the natural course of HIV infection might be modulated in a favorable way by this particular coinfection. In addition, because HPgV was first found in humans with hepatitis, and due to its close relationship to GBV-A and GBV- B in marmosets, human pegivirus/GBV-C was also named “hepatitis G virus (HGV)” by one research group. However, it has been shown that HPgV neither causes hepatitis nor worsens preexisting hepatitis (Berenguer 1996, Tillmann 1998, Rambusch 1998, Stark 1999). Whether viremia is increased in lymphoma patients without HIV infection, is debated (Krajden 2009, Ernst 2014). Although the primary permissive cell type of HPgV has not yet been identified, the virus has been found in lymphocytes and peripheral blood mononuclear cells, bone marrow, liver, and spleen (Chivero 2015). HPgV has until yet not been shown to cause any known disease in humans but a couple of studies indicated a more favourable course of HIV-, HCV-, and more recently Ebolavirus-associated diseases (Lauck 2015) in those individuals chronically coinfected with HPgV. Prevalence studies revealed HPgV viremia within the general population ranging from less than 5% in industrialized countries up to more than 15% in some devel- oping countries. Although approximately 10% to 30% of blood donors have specific antibodies against HPgV, affected individuals are not excluded from the donation of blood, assuming that the virus is apathogenic. Consequently, serological diagnostics on HPgV are not routinely performed. An estimated 25% of HPgV-infections persist, and the other 75% clear viremia within two years of infection (Gutierrez 1997; Tanaka 1998). Two serological markers for HPgV infection exist: HPgV viremia can be deter- mined using a PCR method; and antibodies to the envelope region E2 (anti-E2) are detected by ELISA (Table 1). As they are mutually exclusive, either HPgV viremia or the presence of anti-E2 is detectable in HPgV infected individuals (Gutierrez 1997; Tanaka 1998). HPgV viremia may persist for decades but in the majority HPgV viremia is transient and ends with seroconversion to anti-E2, resulting in immunity to new infections. However, this does not seem to be a lifelong immunity (Table 1). Hence coinfection of human HPgV and HIV is common and persistence of HPgV viremia (HPgV RNA positivity) is prolonged in HIV infection. Until now six genotypes and several subtypes of HPgV have been described with significant variation in their regional distribution and in virologic characteristics. Table 1: Serological markers and stages of HPgV infection Marker Pegivirus-C-Viremia (RNA) Anti-E2-Antibodies Method PCR / b-DNA ELISA HPgV negative negative negative Replicative HPgV-C Infection positive negative Past HPgV-C Infection negative positive / (negative)* * Anti-E2-antibodies may disappear over time HIV and HPgV coinfection: Pas de deux In 1998 the first cohort studies described a modulating impact of HPgV coinfection on HIV-infection (Toyoda 1998, Heringlake 1998): The HPgV viremic subgroup pre- sented with lower HIV viremia, higher CD4 T cell counts, slower progression to AIDS and improved survival as compared to the HPgV non-viremic patients. These bene- ficial effects were confirmed by different research groups (Lefrère 1999, Yeo 2000, Tillmann 2001, Xiang 2001) and were also seen in antiretrovirally treated HIV+ indi- viduals (Tillmann 2004+2006, Nunnari 2003, Williams 2004, Ernst 2011). The mod- ulatory effects were associated to persisting HPgV viremia but were not present in those without or with cleared HPgV infection. A meta-analysis described an improved response to ART and clinical benefit for HIV/HPgV coinfected patients, which was more pronounced with longer follow-up (Zhang 2006).