Ch.2 Chronic Inflammation Flashcards
a response of prolonged duration (weeks to months) in which inflammation, tissue injury, and attempts at repair coexist, in varying combinations delayed
Chronic inflammation
3 main causes of chronic inflmation
1. Persistant infection; difficult to eradicate (mycobacteira, some viruses fungi, and parasites)
2. Hypersensitivity Diseases; diseases that are caused by excessive and inappropriate activation of the immune system (autoimmune & allergic diseases)
3. Prolongued exposre to toxic agents they can be endo or exogenous ex. silica inhaliation.
autoantigens evoke a self-perpetuating immune reaction that results in chronic tissue damage and inflammation;
examples of such diseases are rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis
Autoimmune diseases
chronic inflammation is the result of **excessive immune responses **against common environmental substances, as in bronchial asthma
Allergic Diseases
What morphological feature of Chronic inflammation?
Macrophages, lymphocytes, and plasma cells enter site of infection
Infiltration by mononuclear cells
What morphological feature of Chronic inflammation?
____ at site of infection is induced by the persistent offending agent or by the inflammatory cells
Tissue Destruction
What morphological feature of Chronic inflammation?
replacement of damaged tissue with connective tissue, accomplished by angiogenesis (proliferation of small blood vessels) and fibrosis, culminating in scar formation
Attempts at healing
Cells which destroy foreign invaders and tissues, secrete cytokines and growth factors, and activate other cells, notably T lymphocytes.
Dominant cell in chronic inflammatory rxn.
Macrophages
diffusely scattered in most connective tissues. Circulating cells of this lineage are known as monocytes. ALso found in specific locations in organs such as the liver (Kupffer cells), spleen, and lymph nodes (sinus histiocytes), central nervous system (microglial cells), and lungs (alveolar macrophages)
Tissue Resident Macrophages
derived from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow and from progenitors in the embryonic yolk sac and fetal liver during early development
Macrophages in tissues
inflammatory reactions, progenitors in the bone marrow give rise to monocytes, which enter the blood, migrate into various tissues,
What do they do after this?
Differentiate into macrophages
Microglial cells (brain) and Kupffer cells (liver) are examples of what?
Tissue resident macrophages
induced by microbial products such as endotoxin, which engage TLRs and other sensors, and by Tcell–derived mediators, especially the cytokine IFN-γ, in immune responses
Classical macrophage activation M1
produce NO and ROS, upregulate lysosomal enzymes (enhance ability to kill) and secret cytokienes that stimulate inflamation.
Eradicate infections and dominate many inflammatory reactions
M1macrophages
Clasically activated macrophages
mediators other than IFN-γ, such as IL-4 and IL-13, produced by T lymphocytes and other cells. Do what?
Alternative macrophage activation
M2
not actively microbicidal; instead, their principal function is tissue repair. They secrete growth factors that promote angiogenesis, activate fibroblasts, and stimulate collagen synthesis. **Inhibit Inflamation **
M2 macrophages
Alternative acitvated macrophages
What are some activated macrophages function?
- injestion/elemination
- Secrete inflamatory mediations (TNF, IL-1) central to propogation of inflamatory rxns
- Initate tissue repair, scar formation , fibrosis
- Antigen presentation