Inflammation #1 Flashcards
Purpose of inflammation?
increase local bloodflow and vascular permeability
Key Features of response to reestablish homeostasis?
Inflammation
Neutralization of injurious agents
Adaptive Immune Initiation
Healing/Regen
Two bacteria mentioned that are almost always bested with innate?
Strep/Staph
What are sentinel cells?
What do they do?
Resident tissue macrophages, mast cells that use pattern recognition receptors/TLRs to trigger inflammatory response.
What does TLR4 bind?
Enterobacterial LPS
She was very explicit about inflammation not just being about micrbials. Its also about…
Necrosis
Inflamatory response occurs over…
Minutes to hours to days.
Definition of inflammation
A localized reaction of living, vascularized tissue to injury
Types of injury that might trigger inflam?
Infection
Trauma
Necrosis
Toxins
Chemical mediators act to promote _____ and ______
Flow and permeability
How do chemical mediators promote permeability?
Causing contraction of the vascular cell cytoskeleton to open spaces between cells.
Cellular and Vascular Resposne – Who has to come first?
Vascular
What do I mean by cellular response in inflammation?
Emigration of cells and delivery of blood components
They adhere and crawl
First mediator of inflammation?
Histamine
Why does your skin tend to turn red on super cold days?
Mast cells dislike cold.
Five Cardinal Signs of Inflammation
Rubor - Redness Tumor - Swelling Calor - Heat Dolor - Pain Functio laesa -- Loss of Function
Typical signs of an infection are the result of…
Inflammatory Response
Not the infection itself
Describe the relationship of inflammatory mediators, endothelial cells, and migrating cells.
Resident cells produce infl. med.
Act on endo. cells causing vasodilation/permeability
Allow delivery of more effectors