8/26: Inflammation and Repair Flashcards
- What are the different ways to classify inflammation?
a. Acute or chronic inflammation
b. Exudative or non-exudative inflammation
- What are the types of morphologic patterns?
a. Serous
b. Fibrinous
c. suppurative
d. Ulcerative
- This is rapid onset, short duration inflammation
a. Acute inflammation
- This inflammatory exudate fluid and plasma proteins
a. Acute inflammation
- What kind of cells do acute inflammation use?
a. Emigration of leukocytes, predominantly neutrophils
- What kind of cells do chronic inflammation use?
a. Mononuclear cells -macrophages, lymphocytes, plasma cells
- This has proliferates blood cells and fibroblasts
a. Chronic inflammation
- Is acute inflammation exudative or not exudative?
a. Exudative
- Is chronic inflammation exudative and not exudative?
a. Non-exudative
- Non-exudative inflammation associated with?
a. Fibrosis
b. Scarring
- This is the bodies response to injury
a. Inflammation
- This comes to play when inflammation is caused by a living organism
a. Immunity
- Are inflammation and immunity the same?
No
- Can inflammation exist without infection?
Yes it can
- Can hypersensitivity cause inflammation?
Yes
- Can autoimmune disease cause inflammation?
Yes
- What are the bodies 3 lines of defense?
a. Barriers
b. Inflammatory responses
c. Immune responses
- What are the examples of barriers?
a. Skin
b. Mucous membranes
c. Secretions
- What are the examples of inflammatory response?
a. Cells (leukocytes)
b. Molecules (mediators)
- What are the examples of immune responses?
a. Antibodies (humoral)
b. Cytotoxic T cells (cellular)
- What is the order of the line of defense?
a. Non-specific
b. Specific
- Where are the components of inflammatory responses?
a. Circulating blood cells and plasma proteins
b. Cells of blood vessel walls
c. Cells and proteins of the extracellular matrix
- Most of the defensive elements are located in the
a. Blood
- Inflammation is the means by which defensive cells and chemicals ____
a. Leave the blood and enter the tissues
- Can excess or prolonged inflammation be harmful?
Yes
- What are the defensive cells?
a. Leukocytes
- What are the defensive proteins
Plasma
- What are the 5 steps of the inflammatory responses?
a. Recognition of the injurious agent
b. Recruitment of leukocytes
c. Removal of the agent
d. Regulation of the response
e. Resolution
- What are the cardinal signs of inflammation?
a. Calor
b. Rubor
c. Tumor
d. Dolor
e. Functio laesa
- Calor =
Heat
- Rubor =
Redness
- Tumor =
Swelling
- Dolor =
Pain
- Function laesa =
a. Loss of function
- All that is red (rubor) is
a. Not inflamed
- What are the cellular events in acute inflammation?
a. Margination
b. Rolling
c. Adhesion
d. Diapedesis
e. Chemotaxis
f. Phagocytosis
g. Killing
- What is the process of microbial killing by leukocytes?
a. Opsonization
b. Phagocytosis
c. Lysosomal enzymes
- Fever is due to
a. Pyrogens
- What are examples of pyrogens?
a. Cytokines
b. Tnf-1
- These are from membrane phospholipids
a. Prostaglandins
- These are painful red streaks and regional lymphadenopathy
a. Lymphangitis
- What are the 2 most important chemical mediators of inflammation?
a. Histamine
b. Serotonin