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7. Chronic Inflammation Flashcards

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What is the purpose of inflammation?

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  • remove the cause of injury
  • remove necrosis that has occurred due to injury
  • initiate repair of the tissues
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How can inflammation be a bad thing?

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  • can damage nearby tissues and be destructive

- can be inappropriate (chronic inflammatory diseases and autoimmune diseases)

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What are 4 main features of ACUTE inflammation?

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  • fast onset (mins-hours)
  • neutrophil polymorphs
  • prominent signs
  • mild, self-limiting tissue injury
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What are the 4 main features of CHRONIC inflammation?

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  • slow onset (days)
  • macrophages, lymphocytes
  • subtle signs
  • severe, progressive
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Neutrophil polymorph is the main cell in which type of inflammation?

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Acute

These neutrophils cause phagocytosis of invading organisms

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Which type of inflammation creates prominent signs?

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Acute

redness, heat etc

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Which type of inflammation has a slow onset?

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Chronic

Can take days or even weeks or months in the case of autoimmune diseases

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In which type of inflammation are the signs most likely to be missed?

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Chronic

Can get progressive and severe disease before the signs are picked up on (the signs are subtle)

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Why might autoimmune diseases go unnoticed?

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Signs of chronic inflammation are often subtle and progressive and autoimmune diseases often mimic other diseases

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Summarise ACUTE inflammation

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initial reaction to cell injury

vessels dilates and leak, protein-rich exudate

possible outcomes = resolution, suppuration, organisation into scars, chronic inflammation

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What are the dominant cells in CHRONIC inflammation?

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lymphocytes, plasma cells, macrophages

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What is particularly abundant in chronic inflammation?

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Granulation and scar tissue

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Is chronic inflammation primary or secondary?

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Usually primary but can be sequential from acute

But chronic is not the normal response to acute - normally acute resolves and forms pus etc.

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What causes chronic inflammation?

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  • some infections
  • endogenous material
  • some autoimmune
  • exogenous material
  • primary granulomatous disease
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Give examples of infections which can cause chronic inflammation?

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TB, leprosy, some viruses

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Give examples of endogenous material that can cause chronic inflammation

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  • necrotic adipose tissue

- uric acid crystals

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Give examples of exogenous material that can cause chronic inflammation

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  • asbestos fibres
  • sutures
  • implanted prostheses
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Define exogenous

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External origin (outside of the body)

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Give examples of autoimmune diseases

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rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, pernicious anaemia

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What is pernicious anaemia?

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An autoimmune disease

Autoantibodies to intrinsic factor and gastric parietal cells lead to no B12 absorption and anaemia results

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Give two examples of granulomatous disease

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Crohn’s disease

Sarcoidosis

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What is a granuloma?

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A collection of inflammatory cells

A collection of immune cells called histiocytes

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Describe sarcoidosis

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granulomas collect in many organs, mainly the lungs and lymph nodes within the chest cavity

Viewed as an immune reaction to usually an infection

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In which type of acute inflammation, is progression to chronic most common?

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suppurative (pus forming) acute inflammation

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Describe the progression from acute to chronic inflammation?

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Pus can form an abscess, if the abscess becomes deep enough the walls thicken and become filled with granulation and fibrous tissue - this make a permanent cavity for pus to sit in - this makes it more difficult for the immune system to reach - if this happens recurrently it can lead to chronic inflammation

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What is an abscess?

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A painful collection of pus

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What is granulation tissue?

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Repair/healing tissue

New connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process

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What is chronic cholecystitis?

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Gall bladder inflammation usually doe to stones

Stones persist - thickened gall bladder wall - fibrous tissue - chronic cholecystitis - chronic pain - may need gall bladder removal

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What are the main morphological features of chronic inflammation?

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  • infiltration with mononuclear cells (macrophages, lymphocytes, plasma cells)
  • tissue destruction
  • healing by fibrosis
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Give examples of mononuclear cells

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  • macrophages
  • lymphocytes
  • plasma cells

They are involved in chronic inflammation

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What are the macroscopic features of chronic inflammation?

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Dependent on the actual disease

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Define ‘caseating’

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Necrosis with conversion of damaged tissue into a soft substance (cheesy necrosis, soft damaged tissue)

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What are the macroscopic features of chronic peptic ulcer? (a type of chronic inflammation)

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  • mucosal breach
  • granulation tissue at the base
  • fibrous tissue extends through the wall
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What are the macroscopic features of chronic abscess cavity? (a type of chronic inflammation)

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Pus becomes encapsulated into fibrous tissue that immune system has difficulty reaching

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What is Crohn’s disease?

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A chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines, characterise why non-caseating granulomas

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Are the granulomas in Crohn’s caseating or non-caseating?

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Non-caseating

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Are the granulomas in TB caseating or non-caseating?

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Caseating

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Is fibrosis characteristic of chronic inflammation?

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Yes, fibrosis is prominent once the inflammatory infiltrate has stopped

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What are the main microscopic features of chronic inflammation?

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  • cellular infiltrate of lymphocytes, plasma cells and macrophages
  • production of new fibrous tissue from granulation tissue
  • exudation of fluid is NOT prominent (like it is with ACUTE inflammation)
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Is exudate prominent in acute or chronic inflammation?

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ACUTE inflammation only

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What is characteristic of macrophages microscopically?

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Irregular border

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What is characteristic of lymphocytes microscopically?

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Tiny dark cells

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How do plasma cells look different from lymphocytes microscopically?

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Plasma cells are bigger than lymphocytes

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What are the two types of lymphocytes involved in chronic inflammation?

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  • B lymphocytes

- T lymphocytes

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B cells and T cells are lymphocytes involved in chronic inflammation? What do T cells do?

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Produce cytokines

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B cells and T cells are lymphocytes involved in chronic inflammation? What do B cells do?

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Become plasma cells which produce antibodies

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What are the functions of cytokines which are produced by T cells?

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  • attract macrophages
  • attract neutrophils (chemotaxis) and factors such as histamine
  • cause perforins to kill invading cells
  • produce interferons
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Cytokines help to attract factors such as histamine. What does this do?

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Histamine increases vascular permeability to WBCSs and proteins, we see this in the acute inflammatory reaction

49
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What do macrophage inhibition and macrophage activation factors do?

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Macrophage inhibition factor traps macrophages in the tissue

Macrophage activation factors cause phagocytosis

50
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Cytokines produce interferons. What do they do?

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Interferons activate natural killer cells and macrophages - useful for attacking viruses!

51
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What do macrophages do?

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Engulf and digest cellular debris and microbes

52
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Name 4 cell types that are found in the connective tissue. (rather than the blood stream)

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  • macrophages
  • mast cells
  • plasma cells
  • fibroblasts
53
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What is the function of mast cells?

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The source of mediators such as histamine (increases vascular permeability to WBCs and proteins)

54
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What is the function of fibroblasts?

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Secrete structural proteins eg. collagen. The increase in collagen during inflammation leads to scar tissue

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Polymorphonuclear leukocytes are found in the blood stream. What is an alternative name?

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Granulocytes

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Name some types of polymorphonuclear leukocytes/granulocytes

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  • neutrophils
  • basophils
  • eosinophils
  • mast cells
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Where are polymorphonuclear leukocytes produced?

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In the bone marrow

58
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What is the general function of polymorphonuclear leukocytes?

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Elimination of microbes and dead tissue

59
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What is the most abundant phagocyte?

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Neutrophils.

Found in the blood stream

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What is the function of eosinophils?

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Good antigen presenting cells

Do not phagocytose so much

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What is the function of basophils?

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Produce histamine (increase vascular permeability)

62
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What do injured basophils release?

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Prostaglandins which help increase blood flow to the infection site

63
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Basophils release prostaglandins as well as histamine why is this important?

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It is important that increased blood flow comes along with increased vascular permeability

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What do macrophages which are already at the site of damage do?

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They release cytokines which signal to monocytes

65
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What do monocytes do?

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They enter damages tissue from the endothelium of blood vessels

= leukocyte extravasion
= recruitment

66
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A lot of macrophages are needed to deal with a invading organism, how is this achieved?

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Macrophages proliferate locally in damaged tissue

67
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What happens to macrophages within the tissue?

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They are immobilised

68
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Where do the macrophages in inflamed tissues come from?

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They come from monocytes that have migrated out of blood vessels

69
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What is recruitment?

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When monocytes travel to damaged tissue from the endothelium of blood vessels

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As well as phagocytosing bacteria, macrophages can also cause damage to the surrounding tissue. How do they do this?

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They release proteases which can cause damage.

Damage to surrounding tissue also caused during phagocytosis

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As well as phagocytosis, what else do macrophages do?

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  • stimulated by low o2 to produce factors that induce angiogenesis for blood vessel formation in granulation tissue
  • induce cells to re-epithelialise the wound and create granulation tissue
72
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Are macrophages long- or short-lived

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Macrophages are long-lived

73
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If a macrophage cannot kill an organism, what may it be able to do?

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They can hold and contain viable organisms e.g. M.tuberculosis and M. leprae

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Granulation tissue is new connective tissue and blood vessels. List some features of granulation tissue

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  • grows up from wound base
  • angiogenesis
  • fibroblasts deposit collagen
  • inflammatory cells
  • macrophages important
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How does granulation tissue appear?

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Light red or dark pink due to capillaries

Painless if healthy, soft and moist

76
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What is the key cell type in granulation tissue formation?

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Macrophages

Important in re-epithelialisation and angiogenesis

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What is the aim of the formation of granulation tissue?

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To repair by replacement of injured tissue by fibrous tissues (this leads to scar tissue)

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What does granulation tissue look like microscopically?

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Can see many new vessels (can tell because of RBCSs) and can see lots of inflammatory cells in the stroma (lots of small dark cells)

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What is fibrosis?

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Formation of excess fibrous connective tissue during repair of damaged tissue

80
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What is a fibroma?

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A mass of fibrous/connective tissue

Arises from 1 cell line

81
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What induces the laying down of connective tissue such as collagen?

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Macrophages

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What is a granuloma?

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An aggregate (nodule) of epithelioid histiocytes and other cells such as lymphocytes and histolytic giant cells

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What do epithelioid histiocytes look like histologically?

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Large vesicular nuclei

Eosinophilic cytoplasm (=stains pink)

84
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Give examples of granulomatous diseases

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  • TB
  • leprosy
  • Crohn’s disease
  • sarcoidosis
85
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When can histiocytic giant cells form?

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Where material is indigestible to macrophages eg. tubercle bacilli which have cell walls resistant to macrophages

Another indigestible material is sutures

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What are the main features of histolytic giant cells?

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  • multinucleate (may have >100 nuclei)
  • develop when 2+ macrophages try to engulf the same particle
  • no known function, not phagocytic
  • given different names according to appearance
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What does eosinophils look like histologically?

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Binuclear and pink/red

Look like tomatoes with sunglasses on

88
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What are macrophages also known as when in tissues?

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Histiocytes

Therefore granulomas can be considered to be collections of macrophages

89
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What do epithelioid histiocytes secrete?

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Angiotensin converting enzyme

ACE

90
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What are 2 types of histiocytic giant cell?

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  • langerhans giant cells

- foreign body giant cells

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Langerans giant cells and foreign body giant cells are 2 types of histiocytic giant cells. What is the difference between them?

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Langerhans giant cells = horseshoe arrangement of peripheral nuclei, seen in TB often

Foreign body giant cells = large cells with randomly scattered nuclei, seen in relation to foreign body material

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Do giant cells define a granuloma?

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No. Giant cells are often seen in granulomas but solitary giant cells in the absence of epithelioid histiocytes is NOT a granuloma

93
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Name a BACTERIAL gramulomatous disease

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  • TB

- leprosy

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Name a PARASITIC granulomatous disease

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schistosomiasis

95
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Name a FUNGAL granulomatous disease

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cryptococcus (mainly seen in immunocompromised people)

96
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Name a granulomatous disease which is of unknown cause

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  • sarcoidosis

- Crohn’s disease

97
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What is leprosy?

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Chronic infection by mycobacterium leprae. Granulomas of nerve, respiratory tract, skin and eyes. Results in loss of pain sensation and subsequent injuries which goes on to cause inflammation and scarring

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What is the 1st of the 4 stages of TB? (1 week)

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  • inhale M. tuberculosis into lung
  • invades alveolar macrophage
  • enters via macrophage mannose receptor (phagocytosis)
  • multiplies inside macrophage
99
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What is the 2nd stage of the 4 stages of TB? (weeks 2-3)

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  • exponential proliferation of M/ tuberculosis

- cannot be contained in a single macrophage

100
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What is the 3rd stage of the 4 stages of TB?

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  • proliferation and phagocytosis balanced
  • 90% of patients stop here and do not develop symptoms and signs
  • round complex formed with TB and infected macrophages in centre and normal macrophages surrounding
  • TB can survive years here
  • not contagious
  • immune system may destroy TB and just leave a scar
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What is the 4th stage of the 4 stages of TB?

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  • 5% of cases
  • reactivation 12-24 months after stage 1
  • proliferation and cavity formed away from immune cells
  • active, symptomatic infection
  • contagious
  • more likely in immune compromised
102
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What do the layers of an early granuloma consist of?

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inside = macrophages 
outside = lymphocytes
103
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What do the caseous epithelioid granuloma consist of?

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inside = caseous necrosis
- epithelioid macrophages and langerhans giant cells
- lymphocytes and plasma cells
outside = fibroblasts producing collagen

104
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What does caseous necrosis look like histologically?

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a pink, granular mass

105
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What do langerhans giant cells look like histologically?

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huge and have a large number of nuclei

106
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How does the cardiovascular system response to MI?

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Cut off of blood supply to heart muscle causes chronic inflammation of heart muscle = myocardial fibrosis - can lead to heart failure/arrhythmias

107
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How is inflammation involved in atheroma formation?

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Macrophages adhere to epithelium and recruit other cells, process lipids that accumulate in plaques

108
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What is seen in MS inflammation?

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Plasma cells and T lymphocytes are seen in white matter where macrophages break down myelin

109
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What are the possible clinical outcomes of chronic inflammation?

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  • persistence of infection
  • prolonged exposure to toxic agents
  • autoimmune disease
110
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What enzyme does H. pylori produce and what does it do?

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Proteases - damage intestinal lining - gastritis - loss of protective barrier - enzymes access stomach - ulcer - perforation

111
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Which enzyme metabolises ETOH (alcohol)?

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Cytochrome P450 E1

112
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How does ETOH lead to apoptosis, necrosis and fibrosis and therefore cirrhotic liver disease?

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  • reactive oxygen species (ETOH activates macrophages, produces TNF alpha, mitochondria produce reactive oxygen species)
  • free radicals (produced by oxidation of NADPH)
113
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What happens in rheumatoid arthritis (an autoimmune disease)?

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Inappropriate immune response

Recruitment of inflammatory cells which then accumulate in target areas (in this case, the joints)

114
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What happens in SLE? (an autoimmune disease)

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You get accumulation of inflammatory cells (inflammatory attack) anywhere (can get myocarditis, nephritis etc)

115
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In summary, what are the 4 general causes of chronic inflammation?

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  • acute inflammation
  • persistent infection
  • autoimmunity
  • prolonged exposure to toxins

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