Inflammation and Repair Flashcards
Eosinophils are abundant in what types of reactions?
Those mediated by IgE
Parasitic infections
The increase in vascular permeability is seen in what type of vasculature?
postcapillary venules!!
Which of the cyclooxygenase enzymes are present in both normal tissues and in response to inflammatory stimuli?
COX-1
What do M2 macrophages produce that assist in tissue repair?
Growth factors
TGF-β
5-lipoxygenase generates what lipid mediator?
Leukotrienes
What cells are the most important in inflammatory reactions?
cells that phagocytose: macrophages and neutrophils
Overall function of the leukotriene mediators?
Increased vascular permeability, chemotaxis, leukocyte adhesion and activation
Why is pus considered an exudate?
it contains leukocytes (mainly neutrophils), cellular debris and microbes
Keloid scar formation is more common in what population of individuals?
African Americans
What prostaglandin is responsible for pathogeneis of pain and fever during inflammatory response?
PGE2
inflammation associated with cytokine-induced systemic reactions are referred to as?
acute-phase response
What type of macrophage arises from the classical pathway of activation?
What cytokines are involved?
An M1 macrophage
microbes, INF-γ
What type of macrophage arises from the alternative pathway?
What cytokines are involved?
M2 macrophage
IL-13 and IL-4
What other mediator has actions similar to histamine, with the function of increasing vascular permeability, contraction of smooth muscle, dilation of blood vessels and pain when injected into the skin?
Bradykinin
In granulomas, what contributes to the formation of the central zone of necrosis?
Hypoxia and free-radical mediate injury
Liver macrophages
Kupffer cells
Deficiency in C1 inhibitor leads to what condition?
Hereditary angioedema
What other function does C5a have, besides stimulation of histamine release?
C5a is a chemotatic agent
C5a also activates the lipoxygenase pathway, causing further release of inflammatory mediators
What leukocyte prodominates in the first 24 hours of inflammation?
Neutrophils
What is the complement system?
A collection of soluble proteins and membrane receptors that function in host defence against microbes and pathologic inflammatory rxns
Leukocytosis is typically induced by what sort of infections?
Bacterial
TH17 cells secrete what cytokine and what is its function?
IL-17
induce the secretion of chemokines responsible for recruiting neutrophils and monocytes to the site of inflammation
What lymphocyte secretes cytokine and thus promotes inflammation?
CD4+ T-cells
The cytokines responsible for leukocyte adhesion and migration are?
TNF and IL-1
Acute inflammation occurs in response to what circumstances?
Infection, necrosis
Immune response cells involved in chronic arthritis?
lymphocytes, macrophages
If fibrosis occurs in a space occupied by an exudate it is termed
Organization
The M1 macrophage produce what mediators that contribute to inflammation?
IL-1, IL-12, IL-23 and chemokines
What cells produce the mediators of CT deposition?
Primarily M2 macrophages; mast cells and lymphocytes may be present and produce them as well
Why is aspirin used to bring down fevers?
ASA inhibits cyclooxygenase, therefore preventing the production of prostaglandins
what other molecules are generated from arachidonic acid by lipoxygenase, but function as anti-inflammatory agents?
Lipoxins (LXA4 and LXB4)
What anti-inflammatory mediators are involved in termination of the acute inflammatory response?
TGF-β and IL-10
What pathway ensures that new blood vessels have proper spacing to effectively supply healing tissue with blood?
Notch signaling pathway
What is the mechanism behind leukocyte-dependent tissue injury?
When a leukocyte is activated, their effector mechanisms do not distinguish between host and offender, leading to damage of normal cells and tissues in addition to a microbe
Why do macrophage mannose binding receptors only bind microbes and not host cells?
These receptors bind terminal mannose and fructose residues of microbial glycoproteins and glycolipids rather than terminal sialic acid or N-acetylgalactosamine
What are the cardinal signs of inflammation?
Rubor (redness)
Tumor (swelling)
Calor (warmth)
Dolor (pain)
Functio laesa (loss of function)
What is the downside to using TNF antagonists as a treatment for chronic inflammatory diseases?
Patients become more susceptible to mycobacterial infections, with a reduced ability to kill intracellular microbes
Degradation of collagen and other ECM components involved in deposition of connective tissue is accomplished by what enzymes?
What do these enzymes depend on for their activity?
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)
Metal ions
Wound dehiscence and ulcerations occur as a result of
inadequate formation of a scar or granulation tissue
Components of exudate?
Extravascular fluid with high protein concentration and cellular debris
What is the primary response cell in pseudomonas bacterial infections?
Neutrophils
Acute inflammatory reactions have 3 possible outcomes:
- Complete resolution
- healing by CT replacement (scarring)
- Progression to chronic inflammation
Of the factors that influence tissue repair, what is the most common systemic cause of abnormal wound healing
Diabetes Mellitus
Under what circumstances would a wound heal by first intention?
When the injury involves only the epithelial layer
Lung macrophages
alveolar macrophages
Antagonists to what cytokine have been shown to be an effective tx for chronic inflammatory diseases?
TNF
What are the types of selectins that are involved in leukocyte rolling?
L-selectin on leukocytes
E-selectin on endothelium
P-selectin on platelets and endothelium
What are the three pathways of complement?
Classic pathway
Alternative pathway
Lectin pathway
Immune cells involved in pulmonary fibrosis?
macrophages and fibroblasts
Which of the neutrophil granule types contains myeloperoxidase?
Azurophilic granules
Of the factors the influence tissue repair, which is the most clinically important delay of healing?
infection
What drives the regeneration of tissues and injured cells?
Growth factors
What is the result of vasodilation?
Increased blood flow, leading to erythema at the site of infection
Lymphangitis
Inflammation of the lymphatics, often leaves a red streak to the site of lymph nodes as the lymph fluid brings infection with it.
Repair begins 24 hours after injury with the emigration and induction of proliferation of what cell types?
fibroblasts and endothelial cells
The selectin ligands are what type of molecules?
sialylated oligosaccharides bound to mucin-like glycoprotein backbones
Steps involved in deposition of CT
Migration and proliferation of fibroblasts to site of injury
Deposition of ECM proteins produced by fibroblasts
Overall action of prostaglandins?
Vasodilation, pain, fever
What effects does hepcidin have during the acute-phase reaction?
Elevated levels of hepcidin reduce the availability of iron, leading to the anemia often seen with chronic inflammation
Normal differental count of eosinophils in WBC count?
1-4%
During the growth factor phase of liver regneration, cells release what GFs to act on hepatocytes, triggering them to move from G0 phase into the G1 phase of the cell cycle?
HGF and TGF-α
What are the important mediators of the acute-phase response
IL-1
TNF
IL-6
What is the most common mechanism of vascular leakage and what mediators elicit this response?
contraction of endothelial cells leading to an increase in space of the tight junctions
mediated by histamine, bradykinin, and leukotrienes
TNF causes what pathologic effects in the heart?
decreased cardiac output
Under what circumstances would a wound heal by second intention?
when cell or tissue loss is more extensive, as seen in large wounds, abscesses, ulcerations and ischemic necrosis
What is the most common cause of chronic inflammation?
Persistent infection that cannot be cleared by an acute inflammatory response
What is typically used to treat autoinflammatory syndromes?
IL-1 antagonists
LTC4, LTD4, and LTE4 are cysteinyl-containing leukotrienes that are responsible for?
Causing intense vasoconstriction, bronchospasms, and increased permeability of the venules
C3b is an opsonin, what is the purpose of an opsonin?
Opsonins promote phagocytosis by making the microbe “tastier” to phagocytes
Acute inflammation has three major components:
- dilation of small blood vessels to increase blood flow
- Increased permeability of vasculature to allow for plasma proteins and leukocytes to leave circulation
- Migration of the leukocytes to site of injury
Activation of complement is controlled by which regulatory proteins?
C1 inhibitor
Decay accelerating factor
CD59
The presence of transudate indicates what?
There has been an osmotic or hydrostatic imbalance across a vessel wall without an increase in permeability
Tissue repair via regeneration occurs how?
Proliferation of residual cells
Maturation of stem cells
What is the main response cell in viral infections?
Lymphocytes
Function of M2 macrophages
Tissue repair
Normal differental count of neutrophils in WBC count?
40-70%
What happens when an infection causes an inflammatory response that is systemic, rather than local, causing widespread pathologic abnormalities?
Sepsis
When does fibrinous inflammation develop?
When vascular permeability allows large molecules like fibrin to pass out of the blood
As stasis develops, what do blood leukocytes do?
They accumulate along the vascular endothelium to then eventually migrate through and out to the tissues.
in the process of NET formation, neutrophils lose their nuclei, ultimately lead to
death of the neutrophil
Granulomatous inflammation is a form of chronic inflammation characterized by
collections of activated macrophages, often with T-lymphocytes and sometimes associated with a central region of necrosis
How do giant cells form?
What cytokine induces the formation?
Fusion of multiple activated macrophages
INF-γ
What is characteristic of an immune granuloma?
They care caused by agents that induce a persistent T-cell mediated immune response
What event follows vasodilation in an acute inflammatory response
increased permeability of the mnicrovasculature, leading to leakage of protein-rich fluid into extravascular tissue (exudate)
Mediators of acute inflammation include:
Toll-like receptors
Arachadonic acid metabolites
Mast cells
Complement
Angiogenesis is the process of developing new blood vessels and is critical in healing, these new vessels are leaky d/t the effects of what growth factor?
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VGEF)
Principal mediators of vasodilation?
Histamine
Prostaglandins
Hematopoietic cells, surface epithelium, columnar epithelium of the GI tract, uterus and uterine tubes, transitional epithelium of the urinary tract are considered to be labile tissues because of what characteristic?
They are continuously being lost and replaced by the maturation of tissue stem cells and proliferation of mature cells.
What enzyme is responsible for creating superoxide anion during the respiratory burst?
NADPH oxidase
What circulating protein recognizes microbial sugars and activates the complement system in order to produce mediators of inflammation?
Mannose-binding lectin
TH2 cells produce what cytokines and what are their functions?
IL-4, IL-5, IL-13
Recruit and activate eosinophils, promote class switching to IgE, activation of M2 macrophages
Through what types of reactions does tissue repair occur?
Regeneration
Deposition of CT to form a scar
What leukotriene is a potent chemotactic agent for neutrophils?
LTB4
Elevated levels of CRP in serum can be indicative of?
increased risk of MI
Principal mediators of increased vascular permeability
Histamine
5HT
C3a and C5a
LTC4, LTD4, LTE4
what are the major participants in an inflammatory reaction?
blood vessels and leukocytes
Monocytes migrate to various tissues where they then differentiate into macrophages, what two pathways give rise to macrophages?
Classical pathway
Alternative pathway
What growth factors are involved in the structural maturation of newly formed blood vessels?
Angiopoietin 1 and 2
When would tissue repair by CT deposition occur?
When tissues are incapable of completely healing by regeneration
Erythrocyte sedimentary rate (ESR) is often measured to test for an inflammatory response, what is the mechanism behind this?
Fibrinogen, an acute-phase protein, binds to RBCs, causing them to form stacks (rouleaux) that sediment more rapidly than an individual RBC
Tissue macrophages, mast cells and endothelial cells that encounter microbes and dead tissue respond by secreting cytokines that induce expression of adhesion molecules, what are these cytokines?
TNF (tumor necrosis factor) and IL-1
Leukocytes transmigrate through interendothelial spaces toward the site of infection with the help of what adhesion molecules?
CD31 or PECAM-1
Macrophages are tissue cells, when they are circulating in blood they are referred to as?
Monocytes
TNF and IL-1 produce what pathologic effect in skeletal M?
Increased insulin resistence
What is the function of Decay Accelerating Factor?
Prevents the formation of C3 convertase
Steps involved in phagocytosis
- Recognition and attachment
- Engulfment
- Killing and degradation
For what reason is tissue destruction a hallmark of chronic inflammation?
Certain activities of macrophages promote inflammation and tissue damage
Killing of microbes is accomplished via
ROS and NO
What lipid mediator is responsible for vasoconstriction and platelet aggregation
Thromboxane A2
For what reasons are neutrophils the predominate responder?
There are more of them in the blood, they respond rapidly to chemokines, they attach more firmly to cell adhesion molecules (P and E selectins)
Once a microbe has bound to a phagocytic receptor, it undergoes engulfment. What are the steps?
The plasma membrane extends pseudopods around the microbe, forming a vesicle around it (phagosome)
The phagosome then fuses with a lysosome to form a phagolysosome
What is more potent for causing vascular permeability and bronchospasm (histamine or leukotriene)?
Leukotrienes
What cytokine is involved in the first priming phase of liver regeneration?
What cells produce this cytokine?
IL-6 produced by Kupffer cells
Wound contraction occurs with the help of what cell type?
myofibroblasts
Deficiency in DAF and CD59 lead to what disease?
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
What causes neutrophilia?
A bacterial infection that increases the number of neutrophils in the blood count