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Inflammation Flashcards

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What causes heat and what are its benefits during infection?

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The pyrogens Il-6 and IL-1B. They increase the metabolism of immune cells and decrease microbial growth.
PGE2 also acts on neurones to increase body temperature.

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What causes redness and swelling? Benefits?

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Extravasation from capillaries and post capillaires causes swelling, and increases leukoctye infiltration as well as infiltration of collections, pentraxins, complement, natural antibodies and ficolins.

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Pain?

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Caused by nociceptive stimuli, e.g. bradykinin and alarmins.

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4
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How might inflammation contribute to loss of function?

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increased infiltration of lymphocytes, smooth muscel contractin and over secretino of mucus. Inflammation break down of tight junctions (MCLK?0)

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What 3 detrimental effects can inflammation lead to if not resolved?

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Autoimmune disease and inflammatory tissue damage, sepsis.
Lack of tissue repair can cause fibrosis.
Adaption to stress- shift in homoestatic balance, Autoinflammatory disease.

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What causes acute inflammatory responses? And what cells contribute?

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Pathogens and tissue damage.
innate cells essentially, especially neutrophils NK cells, monocytes and other granuloctyes.
Maybe other innate like cells?

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Primary mecahnisms of actue infections?

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vasoactive amines and eicosanoids.

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Why might eicosanoids take longer to react?

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Synthesised through the arachindonic pathway.

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Examples of eicosanoids?

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PGE2 and leukotrienes.

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Functions of PGE2? And Luekotrienes?

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Increase vasodilation and acts on neurones to act as a pyrogen. Very chemotactic for Th2 and eosinophils for the lungs.
Leukoctrienes also cause vasodilation and recruit neturophils.

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How does C3a and C5a contribute to acute inflammation?

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C3a and C5a can bind to mast cells and stimulate histamine release- vasodilation and extravastion.
They can both also act as chemoattractant e.g, forneutrophils and macrophages.

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plsamin in actue inflammation?

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breaks down fibrin clots, and cleaves complemet C3.

Also activates Factor XII.

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What can factor XII do?

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Factor XII can stimulate coagulation and fibrinolysis.

More importantly, factor XII activates the kinin system.

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what can bradykinin do?

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pain, vasodilation and permeability and causes smooth muscle contraction.

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Can PGE2 cause phenotypic changes to immune cells?

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Yes, can act on DCs to increase their IL-23production, to favour Th17 cell differentiation.

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What are the two precursors and the products of the kinin system?

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tissue kallikren and plasma kallikrin. Producees kalldin and bradykinin.

17
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Proteases in the kinin system

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amino peptidases.

18
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Where is tissue and plasma kallikrein mostly found?

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In the muscles and adipsoe.

Plasma kallikrein is in the liver mostly

19
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what two pathways are involved in the arachidonic system?

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pathways that makes prostaglandin and the other lipoxygenase pathway that make leukotrienes and other anti inflammatory molecules.

20
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what enzymes are targeted by NSAIDs in the arachidonic pathway?

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COX1 and COX2.

21
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What chemokines attract neutrophils? What receptors do neutrophils have?

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CXCL1-7.

CXCR1 and CXCR2 important for neutrohpil migration.

22
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What chemokines attract lymphoctyes and monocytes? And what are the receptors for them?

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CCL3,4 and 5.

Receptors are CCR5.

23
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What chemokines attrct B cells with receptors CXCR4 and CXCR5?

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CXCL12 and CXCL13.

24
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What chemokines attract cell (T cells) with receptors CCR7?

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CXCL19 and CXCL21.

25
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What is the ligand for CX3CR1?

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CX3CL1.

26
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receptors in the IL-2 receptor family.

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IL-2,4 IL-7,9 and Il-15 and Il-21. TSLP.

27
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What are HSP, ATP, uric acid have in commno?

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They are all DAMPs.

28
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What components of the ECM can act as DAMPs? What TLR do they bind?

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heparin sulfate, fibrinogen and tapasin C.

29
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What are two inhibitory compleemnt receptors?

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CD55 and CD59.

30
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What does TLR9 recognise?

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unmethylated CpG motfis on DNA.

31
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What can TLR5 bind?

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TLR5 can bind flagellin.

32
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What does TLR 3 bind?

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dsRNA

33
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What can TLR 7 and 8 detect?

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ssRNA.

34
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What can TLR2 bind?

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lipoproteins and glucans along with TLR6.

35
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What do NLRs like NALP signal through?

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When bound to HSP90 in steady state has PyCARD domain that maintains pro capsapse 1.
K+ efflux in inflammation and procaspase 1 becomes activated and cleaves inactive forms of IL-1B and IL-18.

36
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What can NODs and NLPs and Rig like helciases sends?

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bacterial peptidoglycans and RNA.

37
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What does NOD signal through?

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RIP2

38
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how is NK-KB released?

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IKKa and IKKB complex activated and phosphorylates IKB. IKB which was matinaing NF-KB is then degraded and NF-KB goes to nucleus.

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