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Inflammation Flashcards

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Why is inflammation important?

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  • Cell injury initiates body’s response. It’s part of healing process
  • Purpose: Remover of injurious agent, remove debris, initiate healing process, anti-inflammatory process, restoration of structure and function
  • Vascular and cellular responses (overlapping responses)
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Acute Inflammation

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Sudden and short duration stress

Vascular alterations

Cellular changes

Chemical mediators do inflammation

Leukocyte accumulations

Phagocytosis

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Vascular Changes

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  • Goal is to increase fluids, proteins and bloods cells
  • Initial Vasoconstriction (Comes first!): Due to nerve reflex
    • Ex: Pain nerve endings, release some substance such as serotonin causes constriction
  • Main Characteristics
    • Vasodilation
    • Increases capillary permeability facilitates movements of leukocytes and plasma proteins
    • Low viscosity due to increased RBCs
    • Clotting in interstitial fluids
    • We use ice to try to cause vasoconstriction because we don’t want to have too many things come to swell
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Exudate

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  • Fluid with high protein, cellular debris, high specific gravity
  • Types of Exudates
    • Hemorrhagic
      • Refer patient before treatment
    • Serosanguineous
      • Refer patient before treatment
    • Serous
      • Can treat patient
      • Thin, clear yellow or straw colored
    • Purulent
      • Refer patient before treatment
    • Catarrhal
      • Can continue treatment
      • Thin clear mucus
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Transdute

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  • fluid with low proteins, no or little cells, low specific gravity
  • No endothelial gap, due to pressure
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Effusion

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(mix of exudate and transdate) - Fluid escapes into the anatomical spaces

Ex: Arthritis, Joint spaces

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Inflammation/Cardinal Signs

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  • Redness
  • Heat
  • Edema
  • Pain
  • Loss of Function
  • Pus Formation
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Lymphatics

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  • Helps regulate circulatory system
  • Initial
    • Go through endothelium (thin), anchoring filaments pull and open more to allow fluid in to go to vascular system
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Initial lymphatic drug inflammation

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  • Compress lymphatic system through movement
  • Need to have exercise for proper lymphatics
    • Ex: Patient doesn’t want to get up and exercise
      • Explain moving can help reduce swelling
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Lymphangitis

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  • Inflammation of lymphatics
  • See lymph node enlargement
  • Do I need to refer or can I treat?
    • Refer if doc doesn’t know
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Chemical mediators of inflammation

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Pathogen and dead cell → Activate mediators of cell death → Cell derived and plasma derived mediators

Cell derived: Mast cells (histamine), Platelets (serotonin)

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Platelets and Activating Factors

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  • Activated Platelet and PAF - secretion (Serotonin and Histamine)
  • Leukocytes adhesion, margination, and chemotaxis
  • Platelet aggregation
  • Vasoconstriction, Vasodilation and Bronchoconstriction
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Serotonin

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Causes Vasoconstriction

Platelets store

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Histamine

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  • Increases endothelial constriction
  • Relaxes mooth muscles of blood vessels
    • Both endothelial cell contraction and smooth muscle cell relaxation in blood vessels causes vasodilation
  • Cause bronchoconstriction in bronchi and GI and uterus
  • Occurs quickly but short lived (inactivated in 30 minutes)
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Leukocyte Accumulations - Leukocyte adhesion, margination and chemotaxis

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  • RBC leaves through vascular into endothelial cell, travels through cell to get through to pathogen source
  • Margination: attach to endothelial cell, leak through cell.
  • Diapedesis: Leukocytes oozes through endothelial openings to interstitial space
  • Chemotaxis: Go to pathogen site
  • Attack pathogens in two ways
    • Release Lactoferrin (bind with iron, reduce iron availability to pathogens)
    • Direct cryptopathic effect by releasing Defensin
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Leukocyte Accumulations

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  • Leukocytes lifespan is 24 hours
  • Sometimes neutrophil prolonged response response
  • First to get there
  • After 24 hours: Increase Machrophages to clean up cellular debris including leukocytes
  • Leukocytes – remove pathogens and release growth factors for healing
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Arachidonics Acid Derivatives

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  • Arachadonic Acids
    • Cyclooxygenase
      • Prostaglandins
        • Can do vasoconstriction or vasodilation
    • Lipoxygenase pathways
      • Leukotrienes
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Selective COX inhibition (Prostoglandins)

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  • COX1
    • Normal constituent of cells
    • Synthesize to protect cell and their function
  • COX2
    • Injury of infection
    • Fever
    • Produces PGs that can cause pain, inflammation and fever
      • Ex: RA
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Giving NSAIDS to stop COX2

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  • Carticosteroids stop Arachidonic Acid from being made
  • Effect the enzymes so it won’t be produced
  • Too much NSAIDS
    • Leads to other issues
      • Try different medications
      • Ex: Celecoxib (Non traditional NSAID)
        • Only effects COX2 inflammation
          • NSAID
      • Aspirin
        • Traditional
        • Effects both pathways
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What happens with COX2?

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  • Can increase risk for cardiovascular condition
  • Normal
    • COX 1 PGS = Platelets and Vasoconstriction
    • COX 2 PGs = Vasodialation
  • Problem with COX-2 Selective drugs: Increase VC, platelet activity
    • Evidence of heart attack or stroke
    • Increase clumping of platelets
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Leukotrienes

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Like histamine

Increases smooth muscle contraction - Bronchoconstriction

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Cytokines

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Promote inflammation, help with inflammation

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ILF

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  • In brain (fever)
  • Help body fight of pathogens through inflammation
  • Too much inflammation leads to shock
  • In Liver (C-Reactive Proteins)
  • In circulation (Increased neutrophils, decreased lymphocytes)
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Phagocytosis of bacteria

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  • Attaches, hugs and consumes bacteria
    • Macrophage
  • Enzymes inside kills bacteria
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Plasma Proteins (proteases) Systems

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Cell injury or toxin → Activate plasma protein systems

Systems

  • Blood coagulation and fibrinolytic system
  • Kinin System
  • Complement System
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Blood Coagulation

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  1. Platelet
    1. Place clot
  2. Enzyme thrombin
  3. Fibrinogen
  4. Fibrin
    1. Traps, exudate microbes
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Firbinolytic

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  1. Tissues
    1. Tissues plasminogen activator
  2. Plasminogen
  3. Enzyme plasmin
  4. Splits fibrin
  5. Fibrin degradation
  6. Chemotaxis for leukocytes, increase vascular permeability
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Kinin System

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  • Activated by Hageman Factor (Clotting Factor 7)
    • Activates Factor 7
    • Bradykinin creates Vasodilation
    • Brady means slow
    • Assists in inflammatory response
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Complement Systems

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  • Activated in microorganism and anitgen-antibody complex
    • Combine cause inflammation
  • Plasma protein fragments
    • Membrane attack complex
      • Splits into two complexes
        • C3a, C5a
          • Take WBCs to come and see cell; need to do something
          • Work with Mast Cells
          • Let Leukocytes come and go to do there job -> enhance inflammation
        • C5b to C9
          • Kill pathogen
      • Opens cell to allow for Na and water to go into cell
    • Opsonization C1 to C3b
      • (coating of microbes for phagocytosis – Macrophages) Tagging!

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