Hunter: inflammation Flashcards
(blank) is a component of the innate immune response to pathogenic microorganisms, tissue injury, physical and chemical insults.
Inflammation
What would happen if you didnt have inflammation?
pathogenic microbes would overwhelm us and injured tissue would never heal
Why is it important to understand inflammation?
because it sometimes is inappropriately triggered or poorly controlled and is thus the cause of tissue injury in many disorders
what are the five cardinal signals of inflammation?
redness, swelling, heat, pain, loss of function.
Is inflammation a disease?
no, it is a nonspecific response that can be both protective and harmful to the host
Do leukocytes crawl out of arteries or veins?
VEINS!
(blank) creates almost all cell types that are involved in the immune system.
bone marrow
The bone marrow gives rise to 2 lineages, what are they?
the myeloid and lymphoid line
the myeloid cells leave the bone marrow to become (blank)
granulocytes
What are the 2 most important granulocytes?
neutrophils and monocytes
Where do macrophages come from?
monocytes :)
What lineage do these cells come from:
neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, monocytes, mast cell precursors, macrophages, mast cells, dendritic cells
myeloid lineage
What lineage do these cells come from:
B cells, T cells, NK cells, plasma cells
lymphoid lineage
What is Dr. Hunters favorite cell?
macrophage
Where are mast cells found?
everywhere (blood and tissues)
What 2 cells can recognize cell and tissue injury and can directly recognize microbes because they have fancy receptors?
mast cells and macrophages
What does this:
elimination of microbes, dead tissue
source of mediators (cytokines, others)
role in immune response
macrophages
What do polymorphonuclear leukocytes (neutrophils) do?
eliminate microbes and dead tissue
What are these:
complement; mediators of inflammation, elimination of microbes
clotting factors and kininogens; mediators of inflammation
Plasma proteins
What cells release NO, cytokines and other mediators?
endothelial cells
Walk me through a splinter in the hand
splinter goes in hand-> causes trauma and carries some microbes into the skin-> macrophages and mast cells recognize the components of tissue damage and microbes and orchestrate the process of inflammation. The macrophage is the orchestrator and releases mediators that causes all sorts of changes. The ultimate goal is to get a variety of hematopoietic cells (we primarily want neutrophils) and increased blood flow.
(blank) of inflammation can be exogenous signals (e.g. pathogens and toxins) or endogenous signals (e.g. ATP or urate crystals) that report on tissue stress, injury, or malfunction (“danger signals”)
inducers
(blank), such as tissue-resident macrophages and mast cells, detect inducers with specific receptors and respond by producing specific inflammatory mediatiors.
sensor cells
(blank) act on target tissues and alter their functional states, promoting elimination of the inducers, adaptation to the noxious state, and restoration of tissue homeostasis.
Inflammatory mediators
What are some mediators in the inflammatory process?
Cytokines, chemokines, eicosanoids, amines
(blank) cells play a critical role in inflammation.
endothelial
If a macrophage encounters a microbe, what is the first thing it does?
it communicates with the endothelial cells so that they can change the vasculature of that area (increase permeability to allow for cells and blood to enter)
What is Dr Hunters favorite molecule?
TNF alpha
Although (blank) are the primary effector cells of inflammation, endothelial cells also play a critical role.
leukocytes
The (blank) to an inflammatory focus is modified by various mediators like tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-alpha) to attract leukocytes and to allow them to pass into the tissues.
endothelium ADJACENT
What are some stimuli for inflammation?
infections
tissue necrosis
hypersensitivity
(blank) is when the normally protective immune system damages cells and tissues. This is seen with autoimmune diseases and allergies
Hypersensitivity reactions or immunopathology
Explain how to activate phagocytic cells via pathogens
Pathogen with danger signals AKA PAMPs (pathogen associated molecular patterns) -> binds to PRR (pattern recognition receptors) on phagocytic cells-> triggers INTRAcellular signaling cascades that activate phagocytic cells and inflammatory mediators are expressed-> immune response/destruction of pathogen
Recognition of (blank) promotes phagocytosis of the pathogens, while simultaneously causing production of inflammatory mediators.
PAMPS by PRR receptors on phagocytic cells
What are very famous PRR receptors and are they intracellular or extracellular?
TLR (toll-like receptors)
both
What is a PRR that recognizes beta glucans which is a molecular motif that triggers immune response to fungi?
Dectin-1
Does apoptosis have inflammation?
no, just necrosis
Explain how to create inflammation via cell and tissue injury (necrosis)
Injured cells release or express DAMP (damage associated molecular patterns AKA alarmins)-> phagocytic cells recognize via DAMP receptors-> activation of intracellular signaling pathways-> inflammation-> tissue regeneration/repair
(blank) orchestrates the processes of tissue regeneration and repair
mediators
What is this:
when normal tissue gets damaged by inflammation process that destroys foreign invaders and removes necrotic tissue
collateral damage
The inflammatory response is closely aligned with the process of tissue repair (wound healing). Repair begins (blank) inflammation.
During (but usually reaches completion after the injurious agent has been neutralized)
How is injured tissue replaced?
regeneration of parenchymal cells
and
filling with fibrous tissue (scarring)
(blank) inflammation is rapid in onset (minutes), and usually short in duration (hours or a few days)
(blanK) inflammation may follow acute inflammation or be insidious in onset. It is of longer duration (days to months or longer)
Acute (like sun burn)
Chronic (like psoriasis)
Moral booster question lol**
How does inflammation get terminated?
offending agent is eliminated
mediators are broken down
neutrophils die (only live 1-2 days)
anti-inflammatory mediators
random note, macrophages live for a while**
What am I talking about:
In some cases the stimulus arises from immune responses to self tissues, and these inflammatory responses are protracted
(autoimmune diseases)
Describe how you get acute inflammation
rapid host reponse->deliver luekocytes and plasma proteins (complement) to site of infection/injury-> vasodilation (stasis)-> increased vascular permeability-> recruitment, adhesion, and transmigration of leukocytes across BV-> chemotaxis of leukocyte to site of infection/injury-> phagoytosis and destruction of pathogen or dead cells
What is stasis?
vasodilation resulting in increased blood flow but decreased blood velocity
So tell me about vasodilation
its often preceded by vasoconstriction
caused by mediators released from phagocytes
result of relaxation of SM via histamine or NO
arterioles, capillaries and venules do it
stasis occurs
shows vascular congestion
What mediators make vasodilation occur?
What vessels undergo vasodilation?
histamine and NO
arterioles, venules, capillaries
SO tell me about vascular permeability
contract endothelial cells (create vascular leakage-> short lived 15-30 min) Via histamine, NO, Leukotrienes
What can burns or some microbial toxins do?
increase vascular permeability by injurying endothelial cells (rapid or long lived i.e. hours to days)
How can you get leukocyte-mediated vascular injury that increases vascular permeability?
in venules or pulmonary capillaries, neutrophils adhere to endothelium during late stages of inflammation and injuries it and AMPLIFIES the inflammation…… darn it