Block 1 Flashcards
What is a morphological diagnosis?
Describes the affected structure, process, distribution, severity, time course. Long names
What is the etiological diagnosis?
Diagnosis that names causative agent
What is the disease diagnosis?
States name of disease
What is a lesion localized to a single area
Focal
What is a lesion in multiple areas on the same tissue/organ?
Multifocal
What is a lesion in multiple areas with overlapping regions?
Multifocal to coalescing
What is a lesion fulling spread throughout a tissue/organ?
Diffuse
What is a lesion localized to one portion of an organ/tissue?
Locally extensive
What are the 4 categories of duration?
Acute
Subacute
Chronic
Chronic-active
What is the last part of a word that means inflammation?
“-itis”
What does purulent mean?
Puss
What are the two anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive cytokines?
IL-10 and TGF-B
What is the subset CD4 T cells that help suppress the immune response via physical contact?
T regs
What do T regs express on their cell surface?
CD4+ and CD25+
What transcription factor do T regs express?
FOXP3
What are the macrophages that suppress inflammation?
M2 macrophages
What cytokines do M2 macrophages release to suppress inflammation?
IL-10 and TGF-B
What does PD-1 do on T cells?
PD-1 is a cell surface suppressor which shuts down T cell activation
What does cancer do to PD-1 on T cells?
PD-1 (programmed cell death) is upregulated which shuts down most all T cell activation therefore stopping the activation of the suppressive cells (stopping the cells that kill the cancerous cells)
What is tolerance in immunilogical terms?
Tolerance is when the immune system fails to mount an immune response toward a specific antigen
What does a failure of self-tolerance lead to?
Auto-immune disease
What are the 2 mechanisms of tolerance in the immune system?
Central tolerance and peripheral tolerance
What is a cryptic antigen?
Self-antigens that are revealed secondary to inflammation
What are the 3 ways that peripheral tolerance addresses auto reactive imune cells?
Peripheral deletion
Anergy
Regulatory T cells
What is peripheral deletion?
T and B cells recognize self antigens in the lymph nodes
What is anergy?
Shut down of self reactive T and B cells due to lack of all 3 signals
What causes anergy?
Removal of either co-stimulation or cytokines (1 or 2 of the 3 signals required for activation)
What induces differentiation into T regs?
Presence of IL-10 or TGF-B
What blood do you use in a biochem panel?
Red top, serum
What “top tube” do you use for CBC? Biochem profile?
Purple top
Red top
What percent of healthy animals will have at least 1 abnormal result?
60%
What is the one type of result that is significant if it falls slightly outside of the reference interval?
Electrolytes
What type of error is most common in laboratory results?
Preanalytical
What is in a routine serum biochem profile?
Electrolytes, minerals, proteins, enzymes, lipids, and glucose
What are the 4 aspects to disease?
Etiology, pathogenesis, morphological change, functional consequences
What are the 2 subsets of etiology?
Intrinsic and extrinsic
What are the 2 subsets in intrinsic etiology?
Primary and secondary
What is a primary intrinsic etiology?
Genomic related
-Family/breed
-Mutation
What is a secondary intrinsic etiology?
Physical Abnormalities
-Age, sex, species
What are the 2 subsets of extrinsic etiology?
animate and inanimate
What is an animate extrinsic etiology?
Pathogens
What is an inanimate extrinsic etiology?
Energy, xenobiotics, surgical
***What is the flow of pathogenesis?
Biochemical change>Functional alterations>Morphological lesions >Clinical signs
What is idiosyncratic?
A patient specific disease
What are lesions?
Visible manifestation of disease
What are the different levels, in order, of visualizing lesions?
Gross pathology > Histopathology > Ultrastructural pathology
What is pathognomic?
A lesion so distinctive and unique that it can only be caused by one etiology
What is the prognosis?
Prediction of future outcomes
Usually worded (excellent, good, fair, guarded, poor)
What are disturbances in electrolytes normally caused by?
Vomiting, diarrhea, and kidney disease
What are the major cations?
Na+ (largest), Ca, Mg, K
What are the major anions?
Cl, PO4, HCO3, A (proteins)
What level is sodium when animal is dehydrates?
Higher
What balances the cation, Na?
Cl and HCO3
What disease is usually indicated from high potassium (hyperkalemia)?
Addison’s
Low aldosterone = high levels of potassium
What hormone removes potassium from the blood?
Aldosterone
What does chloride usually follow?
Sodium (NaCl)
What is bicarbonate an indicator of?
Acid/base status
What is low bicarbonate indicative of?
Metabolic acidosis
A high bicarbonate is metabolic alkalosis
What different things can you check on a biochemical profile for the liver?
Hepatocellular injury
Cholestasis
Synthetic injury
What are the indicators for livers on a chem profile?
ALT, AST, ALP, cholesterol, CK, biliruben
What increases with hepatocellular injury?
ALT and AST
What increases with cholestasis?
ALP and bilirubin
Why is ALT increased during hepatocellular injury?
ALT is found in hepatocytes so when it is increased, that means there is damage to the hepatocytes
Why is an increase in AST nonspecific?
AST is found in liver, muscle, and blood
When is an increase in AST notable for hepatocellular damage?
When it is marketed (more than 3x)
What enzyme is measured most for muscle injury?
CK (creatinine kinase)
What liver biomarkers are used to assess synthetic function?
Cholesterol, albumin, glucose, and BUN
When should measuring cholesterol occue?
After fasting (or may be higher)
What are the steps of bilirubin metabolism?
Bilirubin in blood goes through liver
Liver conjugates bilirubin
Bilirubin enters intestine where it is either excreted in urine or stool
What is biliruben excreted in unrine called?
urobilinogen
What is biliruben excreted in stool called?
Stercobilinogen
Where is conjugated bile secreted?
Into bile
What is cholestasis?
Slowing or stopping of bile through the biliary system
Increased bilirubin can mean what 3 things?
Pre-hepatic icterus
Hepatic icterus
Post-hepatic icterus
What is total protein made up of?
Albumin and globulin
What does increased total protein mean?
Anything that increases immunoglobulins
Neoplasm, inflammation, dehydration
What does decreased total protein mean?
Decreased production via liver
Loss from GI or kidney
What causes hypoalbuminemia?
Decreased production by hepatocytes (liver disease)
Loss from renal or GI loss
Do younger animals have decreased globulins?
YES
How do you determine globulin from albumin and TP?
TP-albumin = globulin
What does decreased globulin indicate?
Liver disease, synthetic function
Will cats have hyperglycemia at vet?
YES, EXCITED
What is another name for persistent hyperglycemia?
Diabetes mellitus
What is DIC?
Disseminated intracellular coagulation (Death is coming)
What are the 4 mechanisms of cellular injuries?
Membrane injury
Nuclear damage
ATP depletion
disturbances in cellular metabolism
What are the 3 cell responses to injury/stress?
Adaptation
Degeneration
Cell death
What is adaptation related to cell injury/stress?
React to stress so that a new homeostatic state is established
What is Degeneration related to cell injury/death?
Reversible cell injury from which a cell can adapt and recover. Either intracellular or extracellular components
What is Death related to cell injury/death?
Irreversible cell injury results in cell death
What are the 2 reversible cell responses?
Adaptation
Degeneration
What are the 2 irreversible cell responses?
Necrosis
Autolysis
What are the 4 types of cell adaptation?
Hyperplasia
Metaplasia
Hypertrophy
Atrophy
What is atrophy?
Reduction of cell size
What is hypertrophy?
Increased cell size
What is hyperplasia?
More cells
What is metaplasia?
Replacement of cell type
What type of adaptation does a portosystemic shunt cause to the liver?
Atrophy of hepatocytes
Due to decreased blood flow
What type of cell adaptation would a chronic smokers mucosal lining undergo?
Metaplasia
What are the 4 types of reversible degeneration that a cell can undergo?
Hyropic (acute cell swelling)
Fatty change
Glycogen accumulation
Myxomatous
What causes degeneration of cells?
Sublethal injury
What is hydropic degeneration?
Swelling due to water accumulation
What happens to ATP when hydropic injury occurs?
ATP is decreased where water moves into cell
What is the cell degeneration, fatty change?
Fatty vacuole accumulation in non-adipose cells
What are causes of fatty change?
Hypoxia, anemia, starvation
Where does fatty change usually occur?
Liver, kidney, and muscle
What gross things can you appreciate on cellular degeneration?
Softer tissue
Light tissue
Larger organs
What is hepatic lipidosis in cats?
Accumulation lipoproteins in liver leading to fat storage
What stains can be used to see adipose cells?
Oil Red O
Suden Black
Where does glycogen accumulation begin?
Centrilobular regions due to lower oxygen content
What is myxomatous?
Accumulation of mucin-like material
What does myxomatous cause?
Conversion of mature proteins to embryonic forms
What types of tissue does myxomatous occur in?
Connective tissue and adipose tissue
When does myxomatous most often occur?
During cachexia (muscle loss) and starvation
What is microcirculation?
Exchange of nutrients and waste between blood and extravascular tissue
What is the space between cells and the microcirculation?
Interstitium
Edema is the accumulation of abnormal quantities of fluid in the interstium
What controls the balance of fluid between the arteriole and the interstitial space?
Physical barriers (arteriole wall)
Differences in pressure
Concentration of substance
What are the driving forces of fluid exchange?
Arteriole blood pressure (ABP)
Colloid osmotic pressure (COP)
Interstitial fluid pressure (IFP)
What is the active driving force of fluid exchange?
Arteriole blood pressure
What is the passive driving force of fluid exchange?
Colloid osmotic pressure
Interstitial fluid pressure
When do we get edema?
When this balance between the fluid exchange is off
What tube is used to run a chem profile?
Red top
What type of blood is used in a red top?
Serum
What does a purple top tube have that a red top doest? (In terms of the blood)
A buffy coat (fibrinogen)