HIGHLIGHTS Flashcards
Diagnostic pathology
an AUTOPSY (syn: necropsy) may be performed to determine the cause of death in an individual or in a group of animals or to explain decreased production
Forensic pathology
the purpose of an autopsy is to determine the nature of death from a legal perspective
Surgical pathology
(histologic examination of surgically excised tissue specimens) not only facilitates diagnosis and prognosis for a living animal but also can be the basis for therapy
Experimental pathology
Contributes from the design to the endpoint of an investigation with the goal of correlating morphologic changes with clinical, functional, and biochemical parameters to elucidate the mechanisms of disease
Comparative pathology
compares specific human pathologies with those seen in natural animal models
(tuberculosis, anthrax, erysipelas etc.)
Disease - What do we examine in PATHOLOGY
2., Morphological changes
(→ Pathology)
→ Morphological examinations
Most important Method to recognize/investigate the disease:
1., Autopsy
In the vast majority of the cases complementary investigations are necessary!
What is Post-mortem and ante-mortem investigations
(excision, fine needle aspirate, biopsy samples from living animals)
What is Pathogenesis
(how does the disease proceed)
What is
General pathology:
Study of the reaction of cells or tissues to injury with a focus on the mechanisms of that response.
Basic changes:
– Circulatory disturbances – Regressive changes
– Proliferative changes
– Inflammations
– Tumors
– Developmental anomalies
What is Special pathology/systemic pathology:
Characteristic changes caused by well defined diseases, grouped according to organ systems
What are the Groups according to different characteristics
Localisation, extension
– general, organ and systemic diseases
Aetiology:
– Infectious (morbidity, mortality, lethality)
• Spreading: endemic, epidemic, pandemic
• Agent: bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic – Noninfectious
Appearance: continous, periodic, paroxysmal
Duration: fulminant, peracute, acute, subacute, chronic
Rupture large intestines - Horse
Staining
Ziehl-Neelsen Staining
Staining
Perls Staining
Immunohistochemistry (IF, IPO), in situ hybridisation
Special staining
MAC-387
Type of lesion
Trichoblastoma, basalioma
Foot and mouth disease in Cattle, Pig and Human
Sanatio
Recovery/Healing
• Recreatio
Mild degree of functional changes, reversible morphological alterations → revivification (recreatio)
• Restitutio
– ad intergrum – cum defectu
Complete recovery following more profound tissue alterations, lost cells are replaced by corresponding tissues → regeneration (regeneratio, restitutio ad integrum/ cum defectu)
• Regeneratio
Complete recovery following more profound tissue alterations, lost cells are replaced by corresponding tissues → regeneration (regeneratio, restitutio ad integrum/ cum defectu)
• Reparatio
• Demarcatio
• Organizatio
Demarcation (abscesses in the lung, horse)
What is this an example of
Callus formation
Permanent morphological or structural changes (restitutio cum defectu) → locus minoris resistentiae
What is clinical death
Clinical death
(no breathing, no heartbeat, but tissues and organs survive for a while → resuscitation, grafts, transplantation, culturing) → pathological agony („intermediate life”) → pathological or absolute death
When is the recognition of death
Recognition of death:
no heartbeat, no responses to sensory or sensitive stimuli, no reflexes (pupils → „brain death”)
→ when post mortem changes start: obvious
What are the postmortem changes?
- Cooling off – algor mortis
- Pale color – pallor mortis
- Desiccation – exsiccatio postmortalis
- Soaking – maceratio postmortalis
- Stiffness – rigor mortis
- Postmortem clot – cruor postmortalis
- PM blood sedimentation – hypostasis postmortalis – Livores mortis
- Discoloration - imbibition
- Selfsoftening – autolysis (selfdigestion –
- autodigestion)
- Postmortem decomposition – putrefaction
- Grave wax - adipocere
Name of lesion?
Due to?
Found where?
Desiccation - exsiccatio postmortalis
Evaporation
Skin
Mucous membranes
Cornea
+ also in alive animals
Characteristics of this postmortem change
- complete dehydration of the tissues
- dry heat and/or air current
- desert, chimney
- Function of the putrefactive bacteria is also hampered
Characteristics of this postmortem change
Soaking, maceratio
- Skin, organs filled with fluid
-
Foetuses
- Aseptic autolysis
- Carcasses staying in the water
-
Also in living animals
- flows on the skin!
Rigor mortis
In which type of muscles?
Nystens Rule
All 3 types of muslcles
Nystens rule - Direction of rigor mortis
- Skeletal muscles → rigor mortis timeline
- 2-4 hours the beginning (head is stiff)
- 5-8 hours becomes general (body)
- 24-48 hours starts to disappear
- 48-60 passes off
Rigor mortis in Heart Muscle
Systole or diastole?
Development?
Duration?
- Standstill in diastole – looks like systole
- Develops fast (30 minutes)
- Lasts for 1 day
Rigor Mortis Smooth muscles
Onset?
Duration?
- Quick process (10-15 minutes)
- Lasts for 1 – 4 hours
- Rigid intestines, arteries, spleen
Onset and duration of RM
Rapid and short
- High environmental and/or inner temperature
- Prolonged muscular activity
- Young and elder animals
- Septicaemia, wasting diseases
Onset and duration of RM
Delayed
- Asphyxial death (notably by carbon monoxide poisoning) = SUFFOCATION
- Severe hemorrhage, cold surroundings
- Fails to develop In case of degenerative muscle changes
What is this
Characteristics
- Postmortem clot - Cruor postmortalis
- Dark red, smooth, fleshy with glistening surface
- Very similar to Trombocytolysis but it isnt attached to the intima
- After death blood clots in 15-30 minutes in large vessels, non in smaller ones
Blood clot in the heart
- PM blood sedimentation, lividity
- postmortem hypostasis
- Effect of gravity on the blood fluid – in 1 hour!
- Also visible inside the organs
- livores mortis → PM spots dark purple
Sulfhemoglobin imbibition
Bile imbibition - From Gall bladder
Hemoglobin imbibition
Self softening - Autolysis
Autolytic ferments of the cell in the cytoplasm
- Autodigestio (self digestion)
- Gastromalatia due to gastric juice
- Oesophagomalatia
What is happening
Postmortem destruction - putrefaction
Decomposition products → Activity of saprogenic bacteria
Suffocation supports the putrefaction → blood remains liquid
Decomposition from Intestine – v. portae – liver
Dissolution into gases, liquids and salts
Ptomaines (neurine, muscarine, putrescin)
Gas production – stomach distension
Under 5 degrees putrefaction stops
Pase of Putrefaction
Rapid VS Slow
- Pace of putrefaction
-
Rapid
- Obese (retaining the body heat)
- Warm environmental temperature
- Hyperemic organs
- Widespread infection
- Injuries (portals of entry)
- Oedematous tissues
- Slow → Lean and Exsanguination (dehydration)
-
Rapid
Putrefaction
EMPHYSEMA POSTMORTALIS HEPATIS
Due to putrefaction
Postmortal Tympany (gass accumulation)
Sulph-hemoglobin imbibition
Reaction of Hb (hemoglobin) plus H2S (hydrogen-sulphid) greyish-green, paling off on air
Sulph-hemoglobin
Reaction of Hb (hemoglobin) plus H2S (hydrogen-sulphid) greyish-green, paling off on air
Sulph-hemoglobin
Reaction of Hb (hemoglobin) plus H2S (hydrogen-sulphid) greyish-green, paling off on air
Sulph-hemoglobin
Reaction of Hb (hemoglobin) plus H2S (hydrogen-sulphid) greyish-green, paling off on air
Pseudomelanosis
- H2S + Fe (from Hb)
- Iron-sulphide
- PM Wax - Adipocere
- Saponification
- In wet, clayey soil
- Fatty acids and Ca++
- Form soaps, impregnate soft organs
- Sweetish odour
What are the causes of cellular damage?
- External causes
- Physical
- Mechanical effects
- High and low temperature
- Electricity
- Radiant energy
- Climate and weather
- Chemical → Intoxications
- Biological → Viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa
- Inadequate supplements (malnutrition)
- Physical
- Internal causes
Luxation
bite (vulnus. morsum)
gun-shot (vulnus. sclopetarium)
Bleeding in the brain tissue
Rupture
Tituration
Sequelae of traumatic effects
• Local effects
– Lesions
– Tissue damage
– Port of entry!
Sequelae of traumatic effects
• General effects
– General effect of a local infection
• tetanus, gas-phlegmone
– Loss of blood
• Bleeding out
– Functional disturbances
• fractures, luxations
– Embolism
• fat, bone marrow
– Traumatic shock
Bleeding, Haemothorax
Loss of function
disruption of the Achilles tendon
Lesions in the tissues
Microscopical or Macroscopical
Macroscopic
– Ruptures (ruptura)
– Fractures (fractura)
– Luxation (luxatio)
– Fissure
– Concussion (commotio)
Lesions in the tissue leading to Locus minoris resistenciae
– Ruptures (ruptura)
– Fractures (fractura)
– Luxation (luxatio)
Locus minoris resistenciae
- sick animals
- bad condition
- dietetical problems
Lesions in the tissue
Where can you find Concussions
– Concussion (commotio)
– brain, spinal cord, bone marrow
– bony capsule!!!
– not always seen with naked eyes
Fractures
What do we have?
Special form of fraction
- open (fr. aperta) or covered (fr. optecta)
- special appaerance
– Infraction - bone fracture marked by a small line that shows up in X-ray examination
What can be seen
Dislocation of the broken ends
Which reaction can be seen?
What does it mean?
Vital reaction
Happened in real life
Edges of the wound
– Hemorrhages at the surrounding tissues – After soaking it disappears!
High temp as a cause of disease - Categories
CAUSED BY: Radiant heat, hot liquid, steam, gas, solid substances (live coal, melted metal)
- Categorized by the severity of the lesions
LOCAL EFFECT = COMBUSTIO
- • C. erythematosa
- • C. bullosa
- • C. escharotica
- • Carbonization
(1st) (2nd) (3rd) (4th)
partial depth (epidermis) 1+2
complete depth 3+4
GENERAL = HYPERTHERMIA
Appearance of the Burns
C. erythematosa (1st degree)
Hyperaemic area, vasodilatation, edema
Appearance of the Burns
C. bullosa (2nd degree)
- Vesication,
- Denaturation of proteins,
- Pain
Appearance of the burns
C. escharotica (3rd degree)
- Coagulation necrosis of the tissues
- Hemostasis
- Thrombosis
- Pale
- Insensible
Appearance of the Burn
Carbonization (4th degree)
- Tissues are charred
Inhalational Burns
Inhalation Burns
-
Destruction of airways and lungs
- The mucous membrane of the nasal and oral cavity, upper respiratory system
-
Gasses soluble in water = form acids or base and cause edema
- Chloride, sulphur dioxide, ammonia
- swelling, inflammation
Carbonization (4th degree)
General effects of burns
(exept hyperthermia)
-
Circulatory disturbance, shock… (immediate)
- edema (permeability of the blood vessels)
- pain, hypovolaemia, hyperkalemia, autointoxication
- Necrosis, enzymatic lysis of proteins – increased local osmotic pressure
- Hemoconcentration, desiccation
-
Degeneration of parenchymal organs
- catabolic enzimes continue to work
- liver, kidney, heart, bone marrow! (anaemia)
-
Hyperkalaemia (potassium released from the cells)
- 2nd day: oliguria, anuria (degeneration of tubular cells)
- 3rd day: polyuria (later no water retention ability)
- Toxaemia
General effects of burn
HYPERTHERMIA
Hyperthermia
- Extremely increased internal temperature of the body
-
Hyperthermia = (failure of physical heat regulation)
- High (and humid) environmental temperature
- High own heat production (pyrogens)
- Heat loss is inhibited
- Consequences similar to burn consequences
-
Pathologic findings
- Quickly developing RM, incompletely CLOTTED blood, early PUTREFACTION
- Hemostasis in internal organs, brain edema, meningeal hyperemia, and hemorrhages in the hypothalamus
HYPERTHERMIA
HEAT STROKE
- Heat stroke (> 43°C)
- Lesions
-
Heat spasms
- electrolyte loss (sweating)
-
Heat distress
- most often seen, collapse
- failure of cardiovascular compensatory mechanisms after hypovolemia
-
Heat spasms
Sunstroke - Insolation
- Infrared (ultraviolet?) radiation of sunshine
- Longlasting or strong impact of sunshine
Low temperature as a cause of disease
LOCAL EFFECTS
-
Contraction of vessels, local ischaemia
- Metabolic and waste products (lactic acid, histamin)
- Irregular vasodilatation! - hemostasis
-
Frostbite (congelatio)
- Not only at freezing point - wet, windy surroundings
- Piglet with diarrhea, protruding body parts (ears,tail,testicles)
- Not only at freezing point - wet, windy surroundings
LESION
C. erythematosa (1st)
– bluish-red, swollen
LESION
C. bullosa (2nd)
– vesication, edema
LESION
C. escharotica (3rd)
– necrosis
LESION
C. gangrenosa (4th)
gangrene
Low temperature as a cause of disease
GENERAL effects
(Not hypothermia)
• General effects
– Gangrenous lesions, necrosis
• Toxaemia
Hypothermia at which temp?
Failure of the heat regulation – around 35oC
27-30 oC: vital functions come to standstill
20-25 oC: death
Hypothermia
- Endangered species
- Predisposing factors
- Factor of great metabolic Activity
- pig, rabbit, dog
- diarrhoea, bleeding
- Brown adipose tissue
What are the Defence mechanisms Against falling body temperature
-
Contraction of muscles
- Shivering
- Vasoconstriction in the skin
- Increased metabolism
- Labile glycogen reserves are used up
- Shallow and quick respiration
Name a HYPOTHERMIC wellknown disease
Baby pig disease
• Acute hypoglycemia of the newborn pigs
– Fatal if untreated
– Cold, starvation
• In newborn or young animals
– Heat regulation is not perfect
– Body surface is relatively large
What is autointoxication?
= Autotoxemia
Poisoning the body with endogenous toxins,
Self- poisoning, a pathological condition that occurs as a result of poisoning by substances produced in the body.
(➢Exogenous toxins subject of Toxicology)
Types of autointoxication
NEED TO KNOW
- Stuck of intermediary metabolism
- Retention autointoxication
- Hepatic autointoxication
- Putrid autointoxication
- Abnormal direction of metabolism
- Enterogenic autointoxication
- Resorption autointoxicationn
1. Stuck of intermediary metabolism
DIABETIC AUTOINTOXICATION
DIABETIC TOXINS = KETONE BODIES
Ketone bodies are 3 water-soluble molecules
- Acetoacetate,
- Beta-hydroxybutyrate and their spontaneous breakdown product,
- Acetone
Produced in LIVER from FATTY ACIDS
- Low food intake (fasting), carbohydrate restrictive diets, starvation,
- Prolonged intense exercise
- Untreated (or inadequately treated) TYPE 1 DM
- Stuck of intermediary metabolism
DIABETIC AUTOINTOXICATION
What is KETOSIS and KETOACIDOSIS
- Ketosis is a metabolic state in which most of the body’s energy supply comes from ketone bodies in the blood, in contrast to a state of glycolysis in which blood glucose provides most of the energy.
- KETOACIDOSIS (DKA) is a potentially life-threatening complication in people and animals with DM
➢ It happens predominantly in those with type 1 diabetes.
➢DKA results from a shortage of insulin; in response the body switches to burning fatty acids and producing acidic ketone bodies, causes most of the symptoms and complications.
- Stuck of intermediary metabolism
DIABETIC AUTOINTOXICATION
Symptoms of Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Nausea and vomiting,
- Pronounced thirst,
- Excessive urine production and
- Abdominal pain that may be severe.
➢Dehydration, such as a dry mouth and decreased skin turgor.
➢ Tachycardia (a fast heart rate) and low blood pressure.
➢ Cerebral edema, May cause
- headache,
- Coma,
- loss of the pupillary light reflex, and
- progress to DEATH.
Lesion
Diabetic autointoxication
(pancreas fibrosis, dog)
Lesion
Diabetic autointoxication (pancreas fibrosis, dog)
Lesion
Diabetic autointoxication
(Lipidosis in the liver, dog)
Lesion
Diabetic autointoxication
(Lipidosis in the LIVER, dog)
Lesion
Diabetic autointoxication
(Brain edema, dog)
LESION
Diabetic autointoxication
(Brain Edema, dog)
What is Retention autointoxication(2)
3 types
Develops in excretory organs, accompanied by a delay in the removal of metabolic products from the body.
➢Kidney failure = uremia
➢Uricosis (gout)
➢Icterus (hepatopathy)
Retention autointoxication(2)
Uremic autointoxication
Solutes/Uremic toxins
Classification of uremic toxins
Characterized by the retention of various solutes that would normally be excreted by the kidneys.
- Creatine,
- Creatinine,
- Urea
- Uric acid.
➢Low-molecular-weight, water-soluble uremic toxins
➢Protein-bound solutes
➢Middle-molecular-weight molecules
Retention autointoxication(2)
Uremic autointoxication
What are the consequences of UREMIA?
- Seizure, coma, cardiac arrest, and death.
- Spontaneous bleeding (vascular damage)
- Electrolyte
- Kidney failure
- ➢MULTIORGAN FAILURE
Lesion
Uremia (kidney-fibrosis, dog)
Lesion
Uremia (kidney-fibrosis, dog)
Lesion
Uremia (kidney-fibrosis, dog)
Lesion
Uremia (necrotic glottisis, cat)
Lesion
Uremia (uremic gastritis, dog)
Lesion
Uremia
(uremic encephalopathy, dog)
Lesion
Uricosis (Bird)
Lesion
Uricosis
Granuloma (TOPHUS)
3. Hepatic autointoxication
Retention of bilirubin, decreased detoxification of the gastrointestinal toxins
(enterogenic autointoxication).
➢Damage of the liver parenchyma can occur:
▪ Hepatitis (inflammation)
▪ Hepatosis (degeneration)
▪ Tumor (primary, secondary)
▪ Fibrosis (necrosis, scar-formation)
▪ Cirrhosis
3 PHASES
- Hepatic autointoxication
PHASE I - Detoxification pathway
Consists of
- Oxidation,
- Reduction
- Hydrolysis
Catalysed by enzymes referred to as the (=PROTECTION)
- Cytochrome P450 enzyme group or
- Mixed Function Oxidase enzymes (MFO).
- Hepatic autointoxication
What is Impaired hepatic detoxification?
Refers to decreased phase I and/or phase II enzyme activity
= The levels of hepatic detoxification enzymes decreased.
- Hepatic autointoxication
Phase II - detoxification pathway
This is called the conjugation pathway, whereby the liver cells add another substance (eg. cysteine, glycine or a sulphur molecule) to a toxic chemical or drug, to render it less harmful.
This makes the toxin or drug water-soluble, so it can then be excreted from the body via watery fluids such as bile or urine.
- Hepatic autointoxication
What is the toxic effect of BILIRUBIN
➢Bilirubin is toxic in most biological systems tested.
➢Several mechanisms have been suggested for this toxic effect,
- Including inhibition of enzyme systems and
- Inhibition of cell regulatory reactions (protein/peptide phosphorylation).
- Hepatic autointoxication
What is the toxic effect of BILIRUBIN in the BRAIN
When the serum level of unconjugated bilirubin exceeds the albumin binding capacity, bilirubin diffuses into the central nervous system and may result in permanent neurological damage or death
(bilirubin encephalopathy with kernicterus).
- Hepatic autointoxication
What is the toxic effect of BILIRUBIN in the BRAIN
What does BIND refer to?
Bilirubin-induced neurologic dysfunction (BIND) refers to the clinical signs associated with bilirubin toxicity (ie, hypotonia followed by hypertonia and/or opisthotonus or retrocollis) and is typically divided into acute and chronic phases.
Lesion
- Hepatic autointoxication
Toxic effect of Bilitubin to the brain
Lesion
Which toxic component?
Billirubin
- Hepatic autointoxication
➢Impaired hepatic detoxification can result from which intrahepatic causes:
- exposure to
- Food additives,
- Solvents,
- Toxins,
- Viral infections,
- Gilbert’s syndrome,
- Hyperthyroidism,
- Restricted bile flow (Cholestasis)
- Hepatic autointoxication COMPLICATIONS
➢The presence of chronic fatigue is a frequent symptom.
➢Depression, general malaise
➢Headaches, digestive disturbances, allergies and chemical sensitivities, constipation
➢Mental confusion, mental illness, tingling in extremities, abnormal nerve reflexes, and other signs of impaired nervous system function
Lesion
Liver cirrhosis (dog)
Lesion
ICHTERUS
Ichterus coagulopathy
- Histolysis/heterolysis by gangrene = putrid autointoxication
What is gangrene?
Gangrene (or gangrenous necrosis) is a type of necrosis (ichorous inflammation).
- Histolysis/heterolysis by gangrene = putrid autointoxication
Types of gangrene
The types of gangrene differ in symptoms, and include:
- dry gangrene,
- wet gangrene,
- gas gangrene,
- internal gangrene.
Lesion
Gangrene
- Histolysis/heterolysis by gangrene = putrid autointoxication
Dry Gangrene
Dry gangrene is a form of coagulative necrosis that develops in ischemic tissue, where the blood supply is inadequate to keep tissue viable.
➢ The limited oxygen in the ischemic tissue limits putrefaction and bacteria fail to survive.
➢ The affected part is dry, shrunken and dark reddish-black.
➢ The line of separation usually leads to complete separation, with eventual falling off of the gangrenous tissue if it is not removed surgically, a process called autoamputation.
Lesion
Dry gangrene
- Histolysis/heterolysis by gangrene = putrid autointoxication
Wet Gangrene
Wet, or infected, gangrene is characterized by thriving bacteria and has a poor prognosis (compared to dry gangrene) due to sepsis resulting from the free communication between infected fluid and circulatory fluid.
Lesion
Wet Gangrene
Which bacterias can cause wet gangrene?
In wet gangrene, the tissue is infected by saprogenic microorganisms
(Clostridium perfringens or Bacillus fusiformis, for example),
which cause tissue to swell and emit a fetid smell.
What happen due to wet gangrene?
➢ The toxic products formed by bacteria are absorbed, causing the systemic manifestation of sepsis and finally death.
➢ Necrotoxins!!!
➢ The affected part is edematous, soft, putrid, rotten and dark.
Lesion
Pneumonia ichorosa (bo)
Lesion
Pneumonia ichorosa (bo)
Wet gangrene
5) Abnormal direction of metabolism
Name a special type that accumulate with high metabolism = abnormal metabolism
The porphyrias are a group of rare diseases, in which chemical substances called porphyrins accumulate with high metabolism. (picture: swine) abnormal metabolism
Lesion
Porphyrias - porphyrins accumulate with high metabolism. (picture: swine) abnormal metabolism
6. Enterogenic autointoxication, enterotoxaemia
How?
Why?
By what?
– Absorbed decomposition products from gastro- intestinal system
Grass fever: methylindol, grass- sickness: Cl. botulinum,
Enterotoxaemia: Cl. perfringens
Lesion
Enterogenic autointoxication, enterotoxaemia
Lesion
Enterogenic autointoxication, enterotoxaemia
6. Intestinal autointoxication/toxic colon
Nothing highlighted
➢The colon’s main responsibility is the elimination of toxins with the feces.
➢Toxins in the feces (intestinal toxins):
- indol,
- skatol,
- phenol,
- methylmercaptan,
- urobilin,
- histidine,
- ammonia,
- putrescine,
- neurin,
- cadaverin,
- butyric acid,
- cholin,
- methylguandinine.
➢Constipation intestinal autointoxication/toxic colon.
Lesion
Intestinal autointoxication/Toxic colon
Lesion
Intestinal autointoxication/Toxic colon
7) Resorption autointoxication
7. Absorbed metabolites from special cases:
= Ruptured, perforated, arrodated stomach, intestine or urinary bladder.
Lesion
Ruptured, perforated, arrodated stomach, intestine or urinary bladder.
Lesion
Ruptured, perforated, arrodated stomach, intestine or urinary bladder.
Lesion
Ruptured, perforated, arrodated stomach, intestine or urinary bladder.
Lesion
Ruptured, perforated, arrodated stomach, intestine or urinary bladder.
Lesion
Ruptured, perforated, arrodated stomach, intestine or urinary bladder.
Morphological complications of the autointoxication
Degeneration and enlarged of parenchymal organs (liver, kidney, heart, CNS)
Hydropic or vacuolar degeneration: histopathologically large cytoplasm: swelling, enlarged mitochondria.
Lesion
Toxic hepatopathy/vacuolar hepatopathy/non-specific hepatitis
LEsion
➢Toxic myodegeneration/myocardosis
LEsion
➢Toxic nephropathy/acut tubular degeneration-necrosis
Lesion
➢Toxic encephalopathy
Lesion
➢DIC (Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy/microthrombosis)
- Internal conditions of development of diseases
(predispositio) + resistance (resistentia)➔development of a disease.
Predisposition and resistance constitution) and acquired characteristics (condition).
- Internal conditions of development of diseases
What is Genetic predisposition
➢An individual may not be born with a disease but may be at high risk of acquiring it. This is called genetic predisposition or susceptibility.
- Internal conditions of development of diseases
What is Constitution
= Somatotype
Categorize the human physique according to the relative contribution of 3 fundamental elements, somatotypes
- Internal conditions of development of diseases
What are the different somatypes?
1) Normosom type (typus muscularis, typus athleticus) muscular-athletic physique [mesomorphic]
2) Leptosom type (typus respiratorius) prone to emaciation [ectomorphic]
3) Pycnic type (typus digestivus) prone to obesity [endomorphic]
- Internal conditions of development of diseases
What is diathesis?
„Defective” constitution➔predisposition for certain diseases (diathesis)
- Internal conditions of development of diseases
Diseases can be?
Congenital or Hereditiary
- Internal conditions of development of diseases
What is HEREDITIARY diseases?
- The defective constitution and the connected functional changes are inherited
- Can be dominant, recessive or intermedier
- Can be recognized at parturition or can manifest later
- If it is life-threatening: lethal factor
- Predisposition for certain diseases: diathesis
- Internal conditions of development of diseases
What are CONGENITAL diseases?
Effects that harm the fetus
In avian species: ovogen infection (Salmonella gallinarum, goose parvovirus, etc.)
Important role in diatheses:
- Species (susceptibility, eg. classical swine fever)
- Breed, race (breeding those with natural resistence to a disease [eg. avian leukosis])
- Gender
- – ♀ cystitis
- – ♂ urolithiasis
- Age (young animal: omphalitis; old: digestive diseases)
- Individual (not all individuals are affected by the same disease/agent)
- Organ
- – bone: fracture
- – liver: rupture
- – muscle: laceration
The congenital and acquired resistence is:?
IMMUNITY
- Infectious agents as causes of disease
What is infection?
Infection:
spreads from animal to animal, through direct or indirect route (fomites, vectors, iatrogen etc.)
- Infectious agents as causes of disease
What is Invasiveness:
Invasiveness:
The pathogen is able to spread inside the organism (not all pathogens have this feature: e.g. Cl. tetani)
- Infectious agents as causes of disease
Infectious pathogens:
Parasites, fungi, bacteria, viruses, prions
- Infectious agents as causes of disease
Parasites
-
Ectoparasites (dont enter organism)
- stress, weakening factor (blood loss), „locus minoris resistentiae”
-
Endoparasites (infectious):
-
Multicellular
- Malnutrition, blood loss, weakening, atrophy, mucosal membrane lesions, autointoxication
-
Unicellular
- Intracellular Babesia causing cell damage
- Extracellular toxoplasma causes formation of toxic products
-
Multicellular
- Infectious agents as causes of disease
Fungi
Mycotoxicosis(noinfection!)
Dermatomycosis (superficial invasion: skin, claw, hoof, mucosal membrane) → loss of hair, irritation, stress (itching), „locus minoris resistentiae” (changes in structure)
Visceral mycosis (local inflammatory processes, granuloma formation, thallus-formation, thrombotisation, thromboembolism, metastasis)
Lesion
Fungi
Lesion
Fungal granuloma formation in the lung
Lesion
Fungal thalus formation in the air sac
- Infectious agents as causes of disease
Bacteria
- Obligatory and facultative pathogens, intracellular and extracellular
- Bacterial Infections
- Local
- The pathogen enters the body, but does not certainly spread, often in wounds, abscesses
- Systemic
- Pathogen enters the body, and spreads → sepsis, bacteraemia
- Local
- Infectious agents as causes of disease
Viruses
- Obligatory intracellular pathogens, modify the physiological metabolic processes of the infected cell
- Local infection
- Systemic infection (affects only a certain tissue type or organ system: e.g. rabies),
- Generalised infection (viraemia)
- Infectious agents as causes of disease
Prions
- Modulator-proteins, modify the metabolic processes of the cell
- Damage: neuron degeneration, encephalosis
Lesion
Cause of lesion
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), „mad cow syndrom
PRIONS
Immune response
Types
- Innate
- – Nonspecific for antigenes
- – Immediate reaction
- – No memory
Adaptive
– Specific for antigenes
– Slower reactions at first (days to weeks)
– Memory – fast reaction! (see vaccination)
Immune response
Innate immune response
Anatomic barriers
- (skin, mucous membranes) and
- Physiologic properties (stomach pH, body temperature) + Phagocytosis, complement system
Adaptive immunity
Responses
Adaptive immunity • 2responses:
– Cellular immunity (T lymphocytes against intracellular pathogens)
– Humoral immunity (B lymphocytes against extracellular pathogens and toxins)
T-Cell = Specific antigen binding molecule is T cell receptor (TCR) (only recognizes antigen if bound to MHC molecule!)
B-Cell = Membrane bound immunoglobulin (can recognize single antigen as well)
Phagocytic cells include
- macrophages,
- dendritic cells,
- granulocytes (eosinophil, basophil,neutrophil),
- Mast cells
Types of cells
Macrophages
Types of cells
Dendritic cells
immature to the left, and mature to the right
Type of cells
NEUTROPHIL Granulocyte
Type of cell
EOSINOPHIL Granulocyte
Type of cell
BASOPHIL Granulocyte