Immunology week 3 Flashcards
Clinical Correlation- Bovine Acute Mastitis (s. Aureus)
WHAT IS IT?
WHAT 2 THINGS CAN CAUSE IT?
● Mastitis is inflammation of the mammary gland. It can be due to ENV
factors or passed via a contagious animal.
Clinical Correlation- Bovine Acute Mastitis (s. Aureus)
can it be clinical?
subclinical?
Mastitis can be clinical or subclinical
Clinical Correlation- Bovine Acute Mastitis (s. Aureus)
what 3 things can it result in?
can result in necrosis, fibrin clots
in milk, or an elevated somatic cell count. (acute mastitis =
contagious)
Clinical Correlation- Bovine Acute Mastitis (s. Aureus)
how can you detect SCC?
○ Can detect SCC via the California Mastitis Test (CMT)
■ Agglutination of DNA which forms a gel in the milk-> presence of leukocytes
○ Automated cell counting
What causes acute mastitis
● S.aureus is a normal commensal of our microbiota therefore there are
likely other stressors occurring causing a flare up.
What causes acute mastitis
example?
why does it happen?
EX: Trauma from milking
○ bacT infects & proliferates in the teat
○ bacT releases PAMPS which are noticed by macs
○ Mac release proinflammatory mediators-> changes in vasculator
○ Serum proteins (Pro-inflam proteins) and chemoattractants are released
■ What would the CS be as a result????
■ Along with CS there will be an increase in the somatic cell count
What is inflammation?
●** Defense rxn of living tissue against damage aimed at removing the
cause of injury & repairing the tissue**
What is inflammation?
what sort of immunity is it important?
● It is important in innate and adaptive immunity
What is inflammation?
what is Acute inflammation?
when does it occur?
what happens?
what does it show a lot of?
what does it lead to?
● Acute inflammation
○ Early stages of infection
○ Actively eliminates pathogens
○ There are a lot of neutrophils
○ Leads to tissue repair
What is inflammation?
What is Chronic inflammation?
what does it have a lot of?
what happens?
● Chronic inflammation
○ Lots of macs
○ Has not reaches healing stage the proper way
Causes & signs of inflammation
7 signs:
● Exogenous
● Endogenous
● Heat
● Redness
● Swelling
● Pain
● Loss of function
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Exogenous
what are the 3 types?
○ Physical agents
○ chemical
○ Biological
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Exogenous
○ Physical agents
what are mechanical? what are thermal?
● Exogenous
○ Physical agents
■ Mechanicals-foreign objects,
fractures
■ Thermal-burns and freezing
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Exogenous
○ chemical
examples?
■ toxic gases, acids, bases, low pH,
etc
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Exogenous
○ Biological-
examples?
○ Biological- bacT, viruses, parasites,
fungi
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Endogenous
2 types and examples?
● Endogenous
○ Circulation disorders- thrombosis,
infarction, hemorrhage
○ Metabolic products- uric acid and urea
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Heat
what happens?
● Heat
○ vasodilation-> rise in BF
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Redness
what happens?
● Redness
○ Lg volume of blood
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Swelling
what happens?
● Swelling
○ Vascular permeability
Causes & signs of inflammation
● Loss of function
when does this happen?
● Loss of function
○ Occurs w/ more severe/ prolonged
inflammatory response
Causes & signs of inflammation
what are PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES:
PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES:
TNF-a, IL-1, IL-6,IL-8
Inflammatory Mediators
7-what are they?
● TNFa, IL1, IL6, IL8
● Complement components
● Prostaglandins
● Leukotrienes
● Vasoactive amines (histamine, serotonin)
● PAF
● Plasma Proteins
Inflammatory Mediators
● TNFa, IL1, IL6, IL8
what do they activate?which releases what
what do they promote? which induces what
● TNFa, IL1, IL6, IL8
○ Activate the coagulation cascade, release of nitric oxide, PAF,
prostaglandins, & Leukotrienes
○ IL1, IL6, IL8= promote chemotaxis, induce extravasation of
granulocytes, & degranulation of neutrophils
Inflammatory Mediators
● TNFa, IL1, IL6, IL8
● TNF-a & IL-1 specifically do what and induce production of what?
● TNF-a & IL-1
○ induce fever & stress
○ Induce production of IL-6, IL-8
Inflammatory Mediators
● TNFa, IL1, IL6, IL8
● IL-6 specifically stimulatates production of what?
● IL-6
○ Stimulates production of acute phase proteins (CRP)
Inflammatory Mediators
● Complement components
what are the most relevent complement components? what do they do?
● C3a & C5a
○ Most relevant complement component for inflammation
○ C3a & C5a increase vascular permeability which stims chemotaxis of neutrophils, eosinophils, & monocytes
Inflammatory Mediators
● Prostaglandins
what do they do?
PGE 2 and 2 do what?
Thromboxane?
Prostaglandins
○ Contribute to vasodilation, cap. Permeability, pain, & fever
○ PGE1 &2 increase the effects of histamine
○ Thromboxane-(oddball)
■ Platelet aggregation & vasoconstriction
Inflammatory mediators
● Leukotrienes
what do they induce?
what are they?
○ Smooth muscle contraction
○ LTB4= chemoattractant of neutrophils
○ slow reacting substances of anaphylaxis
Inflammatory mediators
● Vasoactive amines (histamine, serotonin)
where are tehy found?
result?
● Vasoactive amines
○ Histamine & serotonin
■ Found in mast cells
■ Result in dilation & increased
permeability
Inflammatory mediators
● PAF-Platelet activating factor
what do they do?
what are they?
what result?
○ Activates neutrophils and is a potent eosinophil chemoattractant
○ Inc. plasma proteins and results in edema
Inflammatory mediators
● Plasma Proteins
what is it?
what does it do?
● Kinins- bradykinin (physio1 flashback)
○ Increase capillary permeability & pain
Inflammatory mediators
● Clotting factors
how do they work?
○ Blocks the BV from losing blood and blocks
pathogens from entering
Inflammatory mediators
PRO-INFLAMMATORY
CYTOKINES: what are they?
PRO-INFLAMMATORY
CYTOKINES:
TNF-a, IL-1, IL-6,IL-8
Stages of inflammation
what are the 2 stages?
● Vascular stage
● Cellular stage
Stages of inflammation
● Vascular stage
what are the 3 phases?
what happens?
what clinical signs?
what result?
● Vascular stage
○ Phase 1- vasoconstriction
■ Short lived
■ Allows for clothing to occur
○ Phase 2- active vasodilation
■ Dilation
■ Increase in BF & cellular
metabolism
■ Causes redness and heat
○ Phase 3- passive vasodilation
■ BV stop reacting to nervous and
humoral stimuli
■ Results in swelling, pain, and
impaired function
Stages of inflammation
● Cellular stage
what happens?
○ Movement of leukocytes into the area of
injury
Stages of inflammation
● Cellular stage
● Chemotaxis-what is it?
● Chemotaxis- migrate in response to a
chemical rxn
**Stages of inflammation
● Cellular stage
● Rolling-what is it?
●** Rolling**- leukocytes slow down increase
expression of adhesion molecules
Stages of inflammation
● Cellular stage
● Migration-what happens?
● Migration- to the tissue spaces
Stages of inflammation
● Cellular stage
● Phagocytosis-
what happens?
● Phagocytosis- neutrophils and macs
engulf/ degrade the bact, etc