MISC physiology Flashcards
What Interleukins are pro-inflammatory ?
1,6, TNF
what Interleukins are anti-inflammatory
4, 10, 13
mass histology is sheets of leomorphic, spindle shaped or giant cells with high mitoric activity. In a older women - Dx?
anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid.
mas in neck with well-defined follicles or follicular like structures - Dx
follicular carcinoma
histology of sheets of small round blue cells with high mitotic activity is what dx?
Small cell carcinoma
epithelial growth pattern with tubules and glands - Dx
malignant mesothelioma
homer-wright rosettes on histology - Dx
neuroblastoma
reed-sternerg cells what Dx ?
Hodgkins lymphoma
what ABx is used in MRSA septicemia?
Vanc
what condition is Howell-Jolley bodies seen?
hereditary spherocytosis, splenectomy
single file rows or indian-file appearance - what is this histologycal sign of?
invastive lobular carcinoma
what three bugs are people with splenectomy more susceptible to ?
strep pneumonis
Meningococcus
heamophilius infludenza
what is enothelin-1
peptide
vasoconstrictor
what bacteria are found in the vagina?
Lactobacillus
anaerobic bacteria, makes teh enviroment acidic.
what two factors make the extrinsic pathway?
factor VII and Activated Tissue Factor.
what triggers the intrinsic pathway?
exposure of collagen from the vascular endothelium.
what factors are in the Intristic pathway?
12, 11, 9, 8
what factors form fibrin?
10, 2 and 1
what immune cell is involved in the thymus?
T cells
chooses ones that are against bugs and gets rid of ones againt your own cells
what react together to form the common pathway in the coagulation cascade ?
10a, 5a and calcium = prothrombinase complex.
