4 Inflammation Flashcards
*Q: What is inflammation a reaction to? Development?
A: Reactions of living vascularised tissue to sub-lethal cellular injury
Evolutionary development to protect against infection and trauma
*Q: Describe acute inflammation. Length? Involves release of? Typical of which 2 responses?
A: = Transient and early response to injury
Hours/few days
Involves release of chemical mediators
Typical vascular and leucocyte response
*Q: Describe chronic inflammation. Length? Usually due to? What does it not contain? Compared to acute, what is not as prominent?
A: Inflammation of prolonged duration in which active inflammation, tissue destruction and attempts at repair occur simultaneously
Weeks/months/years
=Usually due to persistent injury causing agent
no exudate
Necrosis is not as prominent as in acute inflammation
*Q: What is a Granuloma. What does granulation tissue contain?
A: = collection of immune cells known as histiocytes (macrophages) that form when the immune system attempts to wall off substances it perceives as foreign but is unable to eliminate
lots of fibroblasts producing granulomatous tissue
Q: What are the 4 components of inflammatory responses and healing?
A: -cells
- extra cellular matrix
- soluble factors
- vessels
Q: Which cells are involved in inflammatory responses and healing? (5)
A: -neutrophils
- macrophages
- lymphocytes
- eosinophils
- mast cells
Q: What forms of extra cellular matrix are involved in inflammatory responses and healing? (3)
A: -collagen
- proteoglycans
- fibroblasts
Q: Which soluble factors are involved in inflammatory responses and healing? (4)
A: -antibodies
- cytokines
- complement system
- coagulation system
Q: What are the 5 cardinal signs of a inflammation/vascular event? Include what causes them.
A: CALOR: Caused by histamine mediated vasodilation
TUMOR (Oedema - increased fluid in interstitial fluid): Caused by histamine mediated increase in permeability of vessels
dolor=pain
RUBOR: Blood flow isn’t as fast so you get redness
Loss of Function: Due to swelling and pain
Q: What is histamine? Produced by? Packaged into?
A: Vasoactive amine
Produced by mast cells
Packaged into granules inside mast cells - when antigen binds to IgE on the surface of mast cells - causes cross-linking and degranulation
Q: What can histamines lead to? Dysregulation leads to?
A: Vasodilation and Increased Vascular Permeability
allergy (Type 1 Hypersensitivity)
Q: What is a ‘complement’? released when? Stimulate? (3)
A: circulating proteins that are synthesises in the liver and released during acute inflammation
- mast cell degranulation
- neutrophil chemotaxis
- opsonisation
Q: What are cytokines
A: broad range of chemicals that modulate function of other cells
Q: Name drugs/chemicals that target these Inflammatory Mediators:
- Histamine
- Prostaglandins
- IL-1 and TNF
A: = Anti-histamines
= Aspirin
= Anti-TNF antibodies
Q: What is hydrostatic pressure?
A: the pressure exerted by a fluid at equilibrium at a given point within the fluid, due to the force of gravity
Q: What is colloid osmotic pressure?
A: form of osmotic pressure exerted by proteins in a blood vessel’s plasma that usually tends to pull water into the circulatory system
Q: What’s the relationship between hydrostatic and colloid osmotic pressure?
A: oppose eachother
Q: What is exudate? Specific gravity? Cause?
A: fluid with a high content of protein and cellular debris which has escaped from blood vessels and has been deposited in tissues or on tissue surfaces WITH high specific gravity
usually as a result of inflammation
Q: What is transudate? Specific gravity? Cause?
A: fluid that remains in the vessels which has low protein and few cells with low specific gravity
usually result of disturbances in hydrostatic and colloid osmotic pressure, NOT CAUSED BY INFLAMMATION
Q: What is specific gravity?
A: ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a reference substance