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Inflammation And Coronary Artery Disease Flashcards

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What diseases can atherosclerosis underly?

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Coronary, cerebral and peripheral vascular diseases

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What are some constituational risk factors for CAD?

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Genetic abnormalities
Family hx
Increasing age
Male

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What is an important emerging risk factor for CAD?

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High sensitivity c reactive protein (HSCRP)f

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What is HSCRP?

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An acute phase protein that triggers the oxidation of LDL

Perpetuates CVD

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What can cause CHRONIC endothelial injury?

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Hyperlipidemia
Hypertnesion
Smoking

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What are some exmpales of Endothelial DYSfucntion?

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Increased permeability

Leukocyte adhesion

Monocyte adhesion

Emigration

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What are the 5 steps that arterial walls will take in response to injury?

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  1. Chronic endothelial injury
  2. Endothelial dysfunction
  3. Macrophage activation
  4. Macrophage and SM. M. Engulf LIPIDS
  5. Sm. M. Proliferation, Extracellular lipid
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Where is atherosclerosis more commonly seen in vessels?

Why here?

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At opening of exiting vessels, branch point, posterio abdominal aorta

Bc normally more flow disturbances seen here

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What arteries most frequently get atherosclerosis?

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  1. Abdominal aorta
  2. Coronary
  3. Popliteal
  4. Int. Carotid a.
  5. Circle of willis
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What is the surface of endothelial cells?

What does this allow for?

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Nonthrombogenic surface - maintains blood in a fluid state

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What happens if there a dysfunction occurs in endothelial cells?

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Pro-inflamm. And Pro-thrombogenic response

Initiated thrombus formation, atherosclerosis and vascular lesion of HTN

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What is the basal state of endothelial cells?

Vs. activated due to injury?

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Non-adhesive, non-thrombogenic surface

Active:

  • turbulent flow
  • hypertension
  • cytokine entry
  • increased expr. Of PRO-coagulatns and PRO-inflamm. Fxs
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What is the role of vascular smooth msucle cells?

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Can proliferate and repair

  • synthesize collagen, elastin and proteoglycans
  • GFs and cytokines
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How can lipids initiate endothelial dysfunction?

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Lipids in plaques = chol.

Deposition and accumulation of cholesterol in INTIMA

Macrophages take up and oxidize

OxLDL further accumulates in macrophages and sm.M. —> foam cells —> fatty streak

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What will be stimulated in reponse to accumulation of toxic LDL?

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Inflammatory response - recruitment of leukocytes via IL-1 and TNF 6

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What will IL-1 and TNF-6 do for the injured endothelium?

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Will increase expression of P and E selectins

=slows down leukocytes so they can bind chemokines

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What will leukocytes do once attached to chemokines?

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Will flatten and migrate thru endothelium

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What is the first leukocyte to respond?

Spec.?

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Neutrophils (hours)

LFA1-ICAM1

IL-8/IL-8L

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What leukocyte will appear over a matter of days?

Spec.?

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Macrophages

VLA4-VCAM1

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What will the cytokine and leukocytes due to the injured endohteliuM?

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Increase vascularity —> edema

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Why is edema good in injured endotheiuM?

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Brings plasma proteins into contact w/ damaged area

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What are the proteins in the Edema exudate caused by the cytokines and leukocytes?

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  1. Clotting proteins
  2. Complement proteins
  3. Kinin cascade
  4. Fibrinolytic protein
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What is the function of the Kinin cascade protein in the inflamm. Exudate?

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Vasodilation

-increase permeability of blood vessels and stimulate pain Rs.

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What R. Will oxidize lipids?

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Scavenger R. CD36

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Upon macrophage activation, what will they differentiate into?
To M1 tissue macrophages = pro-inflamm. Response macrophages
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What will the M1 macrophages transform into?
Foam cells
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What do the cholesterol crystals w/in foam cells promote?
Activation of Inflammasome
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What is the inflammasome?
Signaling system for detection of pathogens and stressors -results in production of IL-1 and IL-18 (both potent inflammatory cytokines)
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What does Neutrophils NETosis do?
Creates a scaffolding for platelet/RBC activation, aggregation and thrombosis
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What GFs are needed for Smooth muscle cell proliferation? What will SM. M. Cell proliferation do?
PDGF Fibroblast GF Transforming GF = Alpha TGF Will increase thickness of intima
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What will activate macrophages?
IFN-gamma
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Why are T cells initially unresponsive to plaques?
Bc of peripheral tolerance
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How are T cell clones made reactive to lipids?
Presentation of self-epitopes bc of macrophages T cells cause inflammation causing atherosclerosis
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What is the fatty streak?
Streak of foam cells and extracellular lipid formed in intima when it is expanding (due to sm. M. Cell proliferation)
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How does an atherosclerotic plaque form?
Soft fatty streak covered w/ fibrous cap over time
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What is the center of the Fatty Streak like? What will it contain?
Necrotic -contains lipid, debris, foam cells and thrombus
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What is the center of the fatty streak surrounded by?
Surrounded by a zone of inflammatory And sm. M. Cells
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What is the fibrous cap covering the fatty streak made up of?
Dense collagen fibers
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What will accelerate the degradation of the fibrous cap and inhibit its re-synthesis?
Increased inflammation in plaque
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How is a thrombosis due to EROSION caused? What kind of thrombus will this be?
When the fibrous cap is thick and intact -sessile, non-occlusive thrombus
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How is a thrombosis due to RUPTURE caused? What kind of thrombus will this be?
Thin fibrous cap w/ fissure -occlusive thrombus
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If the atherosclerosis is an inflamm. Response, How can you tx (non-specifically)?
Steroids | NSAIDs (destabilize plaque)
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What is a selective inhibitor that can tx atherosclerosis?
COX2 inhibitor
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What did the CANTOS study propose for Atherosclerosis tx?
IL-1Beta inhibitor

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