2. Pathogenesis of Periodontal Disease Lecture 1 MOD. Flashcards
What are Cardinal Signs of Inflammation?
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What causes acute inflammation?
Innate immunity
- serum complement
- neutrophil
What causes Chronic inflammation?
Acquired immunity
- Macrophage
- Lymphocytes
Describe clinical things of Initial Lesion?
Can’t see anything it looks healthy
Four stages of Infection?
Initial,
Early
Established
Chronic (Adv)
In Gingivitis what is the primary inflammatory cell that is present?
T lymphocytes
When do you have plasma cells constituting over 50%?
Periodontitis
WHen do you have plasma cell constituting to 10-30%?
Established gingivitis
Histamine
Increase of blood permeability
Chemotactic factors
PMN and Eosinophil
TNF alpha
induce fever (granulocytes)
Leukotrienes
bronchi constriction
Chemotaxis for leukocytes
Prostaglandins
Permeability
regulates immune response
When do Acute Phase Proteins (APC) decrease?
in response to inflammation
When do plasma proteins increase?
w/ microbial infection