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Nonspecific, predictable response of living tissue to injury

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Inflammation

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Examples of chronic inflammation

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  • Rheumatoid arthritis

- Lupus

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Noxious

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Fever

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Inflammation has a protective role/generally beneficial, but can be uncontrollable and be harmful. What’s an example of this?

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Pulmonary TB, can erode pulmonary vessels and cause massive bleeding (hemoptysis)

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How is inflammation helpful forensically?

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Inflammation only occurs in living tissues. In forensics is a “vital reaction” and indicated injury occurred before death.

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5 signs of inflammation

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  • Calor (heat)
  • Rubor (redness)
  • Tumor (swelling)
  • Dolor (pain)
  • Functio laesa (loss of function)
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Represents the body’s first response to injury (inflammation)

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Changes in blood flow

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Acts as sphincters and regulate inflow of blood into capillaries when mechanical stimulus (burn) stimulates nerves

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Smooth muscle cells on pre-capillary arterioles

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Are precapillary sphincters normally open or closed?

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Closed. They open with “acute inflammation” and dilation allows blood to flow to site causing (redness, warmth, swelling)

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  • What is the 1st response of arterioles to injurious stimuli? How long does it last?
  • 2nd response?
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  • Vasoconstriction, a few seconds

- Vasodilation (relaxation of precapillary sphincters)

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Hyperemia

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Excess of blood in the vessels (which causes warmth)

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Which vessels cannot actively regulate incoming blood flow. Why?

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-Capillaries
-Venules
Because they only have endothelial layer and basement membrane

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Increased pressure in capillaries/venules leads to what?

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It forces plasma filtration thru vessel wall –> edema

Ex: blister filled w/ clear fluid (plasma w/o RBC or WBC)

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Edema causes blood flow in the dilated capillaries/venules to be slow due to what?

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Hemoconcentration, so RBC stack on top of each other

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Sludged erythrocytes form stacks called what? What results?

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“Rouleaux”

-Slows circulation even more

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What happens after “rouleaux”

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“Pavementing”

-WBCs marginate and attach to edge of endothelium and develop elongated protusions (become sticky) to adhere to endothetlial cells lining capillaries/venules

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What squeezes through gap junction

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Neutrophils, after squeezing through they are at the site to perform phagocytosis

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Normally present on leukocytes and endothelial cell in an inactive form

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Surface adhesion molecules

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During inflammation, surface components of leukocytes/endothelial cells are activated by soluble mediators of inflammation which are normally present in blood. What are these called?

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Interleukins

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Derived in part from platelets and leukocytes

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interleukins

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One of the most important triggers for release of mediators of inflammation

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Adhesion of leukocytes to endothelial cells

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What substance initiates clotting which leads to fibrin strands which anchor leukocytes to the vessel wall?

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Platelets

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The increased permeability of vessel walls of capillaries/venules lasts how long?

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hours to days

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Leakage of fluid from vessels into interstitial spaces

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edema

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In acute inflammation, most of the cells are what?
Neutrophils (PMNs)
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As inflammation evolves, PMNs are joined by which cells after how many hours?
- Monocytes (also phagocytic) | - Within 24 hours
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Lifespan of neutrophils (PMNs)
2 to 4 days
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As inflammation proceeds and the neutrophils die/become less prominent. What 3 are they replaced by?
Macrophages, lymphocytes, plasma cells
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4 phases in which neutrophils emigrate thru vessel wall
1. Adhesion of PMN to endothelium 2. Insertion of cytoplasmic pseudopods between junctions of endothelial cells (squeeze thru gap junctions) 3. Pass thru basement membrane 4. Ameboid movement away from vessel towards cause of inflammation (bacteria)
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Active movement of PMNs along a concentration gradient is called what? What are they moving towards?
"Chemotaxis" | -Chemoattractant (bacteria or tissues destroyed by inflammation) or activated compliment
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To make tasty for neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages
Opsonization
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When do PMNs lose their mobility?
When they reach the bacteria or other chemoattractant. Now is when they do phagocytosis
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How do PMNs recognize bacterium as foreign?
Psedudopods extending from their surface
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The ____ of the PMN attached to the ___ of the bacteria
- Cell membrane of PMN | - Cell wall of bacteria
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What 2 things act as opsonins (make tasty) | What becomes opsonized?
-Immunoglobulins -Complement (facilitate attachment of PMN to bacteria) -Bacteria becomes opsonized to be eaten
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Many leukocytes/PMNs have receptors for what 2 things which mediate contact w/ bacteria?
-C3 -Fc (receptors)
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Engulfment of bacterium. Cytoplasm of PMN surrounds foreign particle, invagination of cell membrane
Phagocytosis
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W/ phagocytosis, how is the bacteria killed?
Inside the phagocytic vacuole, bacteriocidal substances are released from cytoplasm of PMN
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Specific granule
Secondary granule
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Non-specific
Primary granule
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What is discharged into lumen of phagocytic vacuole during phagocytosis?
Contents of "specific granules" from PMNs
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Dead/dying PMNs along w/ tissue debris
Pus (viscous yellow fluid)
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Inflammations dominated by pus formation
Purulent/supparative inflammations
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Inflammation produces what 2 important clinical findings (typically)
1. Fever (over 37C) | 2. Leukocytosis
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A fever is a typical response to acute inflammation. What 2 substances act on thermoregulator centers in the hypothalamus
- Interleukin I | - Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF)
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Serves as a thermostat
Hypothalamus
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The fever is mediated by what 2 prostaglandins? released from what?
-IL-2 -TNF (released from pyrogens)
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Released from PMNs and macrophages during inflammation
Pyrogens
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Normal blood has how many leukocytes (WBC)?
Less than 10,000
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Mediators of inflammation act on what? Which stimulates rapid release of leukocytes
bone marrow
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Blood has how many leukocytes to be considered (leukocytosis)
Over 12,000 to 15,000
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What predominates in acute inflammation?
Neutrophils
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5 non-specific sxs of leukocytosis
- weakness - depression - pain - exhaustion - no appetite
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In what 3 settings can inflammation be seen by a medical professional?
- PE - Surgery - Autopsy
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6 types of pathologic inflammation
- Serous - Fibrinous - Purulent - Ulcerative - Pseudomembranous - Granulomatous
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- Mildest form of inflammation | - Occurs in early stages of inflammation
Serous inflammation
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Type of inflammation: - viral infections (herpes) - Autoimmune disorders - 2nd degree burns w/ blisters
Serous Inflammation
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Type of inflammation: - bacterial infections (strep or PNA) - Pericarditis
Fibrinous inflammation
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Type of inflammation: - Staph/Strept - abscess
Purulent inflammation
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Type of inflammation: - occurs on body surfaces or mucosa of hollow organs (stomach/intestines) - Defect involving epithelium
Ulcerative inflammation
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Type of inflammation: - form of ulcerative inflammation combined w/ fibrinopurulent exudation - exudate of fibrin, pus, cell debris, mucous - C. diff
Pseudomembranous inflammation
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exudate of fibrin, pus, cell debris, and mucous forms what?
Pseudomembrane on surface of ulcers (can be scraped away which causes profuse bleeding)
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Type of inflammation: - special form of chronic inflammation that is not preceeded by acute inflammation - can be caused by antigens which evoke cell mediated hypersensitivity rxn or that persist at site of inflammation
Granulomatous inflammation
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Examples of granulomatous inflammation
- TB | - certain fungal diseases

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