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1
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Neuronal injuries affecting axons (axonopathies) - list three

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Wallerian degeneration; proximal axenopathy; distal axonopathy

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Neuronal injuries affecting the cell body of the neuron - list three

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Central chomatolysis; inclusions; neuronal necrosis and its resolution (differs from pannecrosis)

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Some conditions affecting the neuron can affect only the axon, and are at least theoretically reversible. True or False.

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True - If you have axonal injury you have some hope for regeneration - neurons will try to regenerate their processes

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Wallerian Degeneration is the most common axonopathy in vet med. True or False.

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True

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Wallerian degeneration follows ____ or ____ axonal transection/separation) in PNS or CNS.

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Physical or functional

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Wallerian Degeneration –> ___ and ____ degeneration together.

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Axon and myelin

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What is the first step (can occur within minutes) in Wallerian Degeneration? (following trauma vs. ischemia secondary to compression)

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Cytoskeletal degeneration in the axon; microfilaments fall apart; in trauma = dephosphorylation of neurofilament arms; in ischemia secondary to compression = ATP reduction –> leads to a transport blockade

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In Wallerian Degeneration, cytoskeletal degeneration in the axon leads to ______ of axon ____.

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Denaturation of axon proteins

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Wallerian degeneration (PNS) - in 24 hours, what is the finding?

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Tissue collapse

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Wallerian degeneration (PNS) - in 2-10 days, what is the finding?

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Phagocytosis of debris; muscle atrophy; attempted regeneration (neuron shifts from making synaptic vesicles to structural parts of the axon - and sends it down to the ends of the axon and starts proliferating axonal processes - axonal sheath is a good thing because you can’t get lost)

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Wallerian degeneration (PNS) - in 2-3 weeks, what is the finding?

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Remyelination with altered length between nodes if successful; Bungner’s bands and chronic atrophy if unsuccessful

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Motor neurons start to make what growth factor that serves as a stimulus for axonal growth in motor neurons?

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NGF - neuronal growth factor

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If regeneration is successful, we get ____ atrophy.

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Reversed

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If regeneration is unsuccessful, we get ____ atrophy of distal nerve and muscle and _____ formation.

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permanent; neuroma

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What factors determine whether WD is repaired successfully?

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Depends on success of axon regeneration - how well the proximal and distal ends of nerves are aligned; whether PNS vs CNS is involved; how close the transection is to the cell body

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Where is regeneration more likely to occur, PNS or CNS and why?

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PNS because PNS has a basement membrane - no BM in CNS

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Brachial plexus avulsion (trauma-driven Wallerian degeneration in PNS)

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Trauma drives the limb caudally along the body, pulls the spinal nerves away from the cord at vertebral foramina, first ventrally, then dorsally

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Bunger’s bands are indication of successful resolution of WD and return of function. True or False.

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False

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A short time after brachial plexus avulsion (days) you could detect microscopic degeneration or loss of axons and myelin, and muscle atrophy. True of False.

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True

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Lesions associated with spinal cord compression: WD caused by ischemia –> most WD affects ____ funiculi most severely.

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Ventral

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Lesions associated with spinal cord compression: WD caused by ischemia: describe lesions listed in increasing severeity

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With moderate ventral compression, ventral white tracts degenerate; Wallerian degeneration of lateral then dorsal funiculi as compression is more severe; Malacia of gray matter

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Not all injuries will involve all funiculi at the site of compression. True or False.

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True

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When WD affects the spinal cord after a compressive insult, it is primarily a result of which process? Thrombosis, severed nerve roots, ischemia, inflammation?

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Ischemia

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What area of the cord would be affected first if compression occurred on the dorsal surface instead of ventrally?

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Sensory

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In “watershed lesions” of severe Wallerian Degeneration; posterior tot he site of greatest injury, what degenerates?

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Ventral white tracts

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In “watershed lesions” of severe Wallerian degeneration; cephalic to the site of injury, what degenerates?

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Dorsal white tracts degenerate

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Both posterior to the site of greatest injury and cepahlic to the site of injury in watershed lesions of severe Wallerian degeneration; cause axons distal to the cell body to degenerate, starting at the point of injury. True or False.

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True

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If a relatively mild ventral spinal cord compression causes WD limited to the ventral cord at TL, what lesion would be present in the dorsal white matter?

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WD would not be present in dorsal white matter.

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29
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Type I intervetebral disk diseases causing WD

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Occurs in old dogs; cervical; annulus fibrosis degenerates, protrusion

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Type II intervertebral disk disease causing Wd

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Occurs in chondrodystrophic dogs; T-L junction; nucleus pulposis degenerates; extrusion; multiple discs affected in 25% of affected Dachshunds

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What is more severe, type I or type II intervetebral disk disease?

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Type II

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Equine cervical instability:

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recurrent transietn deformation with vertebral over-riding

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Equine vertebral affects young, growing male horses. specifically these breeds:

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TB, TW, WB

Throwback, tenessee walker, warm blood

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Equine vertebral instability affects which cervical vertebra?

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C3-4, 5-6, 6-7

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Equine vertebral instability –> _____ joint pathology

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intervertebral

36
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Canine Vertebral malformation –> instability has breed predispositions, true or false?

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True

37
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Dobermans have ___ compression of the cord in canine vertebral malformation.

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Dorsal

38
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Static stenosis does not occur in canine vertebral malformation. True or False.

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False –> static stenosis can occur but is less common, and it can also affect horses

39
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Diskspondylosis, epidural abscess, vertebral malformation, neopasltic metastases, and fracture/luxation all can cause _____ in the spinal cord.

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Wallerian degeneration

40
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Wallerian degeneration –> failure of ___ transport.

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fast ortho-grade transport

41
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Proximal axonopathy –> failure of ___

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slow ortho-grade transport

42
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Distal axonopathy –> failure of

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retrograde (anterograde) transport

43
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Equine degenerative myeloencephalopathy proximal axonopathy: natural disease

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Proximal axonoapthy; altered proprioception; lots of species affected; inherited/acquired vitamin E deficiency/aging

44
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Equine Laryngeal Hemiplegia - A distal axonopathy –> lesions

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Distal axonoapthy; distal axonal degeneration from the ends of longest nerves: left recurrent laryngeal nerve and others; herediatry tendency

45
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What distinguishes Wallerian degeneration from other axonopathies?

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Morphologic answer: Simultaneous degeneration of axon and myelin

46
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Injuries to the cell body: central chromatolysis

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nonspecific reaction to injury to a living cell body reflects change; such cells frequently lose synaptic contact with neighbors; loss of Nissl substance is visible 2d - 6 wks after injury

47
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List different types of neuronal inclusions:

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Secondary lysosomes in storage diseases; viral inclusions (not every one - DNA viruses - nuclear; RNA viruses - cytoplasmia); Insoluble products of proteosomal degradation - unfolded protein response and cell death (some are specific to certain diseases like AD, PD, prions); Other cell types can ALSO have inclusions

48
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RNA viruses usually have inclusions at what location in the cell?

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Cytoplasm (exception - canine distemper has intranuclear viral inclusions)

49
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Acute, neuronal necrosis

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Red is dead, pyknosis; can be selective and/or localized (depends on cause); followed by neuronophogia

50
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Neuronal necrosis by itself results in _______ microscopically, and results grossly in brain ____.

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neuronal loss; brain atrophy

51
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In temporal sequence, what is the correct order of microscopic events following neuronal necrosis?

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neuronal necrosis –> Neuronophagia –> neuronal loss –> brain atrophy

52
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Why do neurons die after ischemia?

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Increased glutamate release from ischemic excitatory neurons –> astrocyte detox (glu –> gln) is disabled; Glutamate binding to susceptible dendrites –> dysfunctional ion pumps –> cytosoloic flodding by Ca2+ –> lactic acidosis, cell swelling; location varies with insult

53
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In slow, incremental neuronal degeneration and loss, do we see any acute changes?

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NO

54
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Motor neuron disease - how is it determined?

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genetically or idiopathically –> results in loss of previously “normal” neurons (denegeration of spinal motor neurons) - and may occur over a long period

55
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Cerebellar abiotrophy

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primary degeneration/loss of purkinje cells, and sometimes neurons in other areas (multisystem atrophy). Very orderly in a given group of patients, very different between them

56
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The time course of purkinje cell loss is similar in all cerebellar abiotrophies. True or False.

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False

57
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Spinal Muscular atrophy is a motor neuron disease that is caused by what?

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Genetically determined or idiopathic degeneration of spinal motor neurons

58
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In spinal muscular atrophy, what enzyme is dysfunctional? what is deficient?

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Superoxide dismutase dysfunction; cytoskeletal deficiency, vitamin E deficiency

59
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How can you treat spinal muscular atrophy in horses?

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You can treat with vitamin E, which will stop it from progressing, but won’t fix it

60
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Oligodendrocyte/Schwann cell injury results in…

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demyelinination - primary destruction of the myelin sheath

61
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demyelination from oligodendrocyte/schwann cell injury is due to ______

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attack on myelin heath and death of parent cell

62
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Demyelination can be a random event. True or False.

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True

63
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Demyelination affects _____ (longest or shortest) fibers most severely because ____

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longest - because they have the most affected segments

64
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Demyelination can be focal and severe. True or False.

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True

65
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Describe gross lesions of demyelination

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Gross lesions are discoloration of the white matter and may not be grossly vissible.

66
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Microscopic appearance of demyelination

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there is a special stain for myelin, and loss of this stain shows areas of demyelination

67
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Three mechanisms of demyelination

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(1) Oligodendrocyte lysis/death - due to viral, chemical or nutritional causes
(2) Inflammatory attack on myelin sheat - due to viral, or autoallergic
(3) Chemical damage to myelin sheath - due to chemical or metabolic causes

68
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Central Pontine Myelinolysis is demyelination due to what?

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demyelination due to oligodendrocyte death

69
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Coonhound paralysis is inflammatory demyelination of ….

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ventral roots, affecting peripheral and cranial nerves

70
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Coonhound paralysis is caused by?

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coonhounds eating raccoons

71
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Experimental allergic encephalitis, experimental allergic neuritis, and multiple sclerosis are all examples of ______ demyelination.

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autoimmune

72
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Repair of myelin sheath injury (remyelination) is more effective in PNS or CNS? why?

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PNS - schwann cells divide rapidly and there is a 1:1 relationship with axon; in the CNS oligodendrocytes can proliferate but there is only one oligodendrocyte per several axons, and no basement membrane for guidance; and seondary axonal loss makes damage permanent

73
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What makes demyelination permanent in the CNS?

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secondary axonal loss

74
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Two astrocytic reactions to injury:

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hypertrophy and hyperplasia

75
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Two types of astrocyte hypertrophy are?

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fibrillary and gemistocytic

76
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Describe fibrillary astrocyte hypertrophy

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increase in cell processes with more GFAP +/- vimentin; enlarged nuclei with HE

77
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Describe gemistocytic astrocyte hypertrophy

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swollen, reactive astrocytes

78
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What is astrogliosis

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diffuse increase in number of processes and number of cells present mixed with surivivng normal cells

79
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Astroglial scars are partly derived from stem cells and consito f what?

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nothing but astrocytes - occurs at edge of severe injury - resident astrocytes normally remain at the periphery of an astroglial scar and new astrocytes that have migrated as precursors from near the ventricles form the center of the scar

80
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Why are microglial cells called rod cells?

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they have elongated nuclei

81
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Brain macrophages have readily visible cytoplasm. True or False.

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True.

82
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Microglia develop activated phenotype and with cell death become ____

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macrophages

83
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Perivsacluar cuffs

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cytokine-stimulated influx of microglia after injury

84
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gitter cells

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active phagocytosis of microglial cells in tissue

85
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In meninges and PNS, external _____ influx occurs after injury.

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Macrophage

86
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Can you see perivascular brain macrophgaes and microglia in the brain?

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Yes

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