Practice Questions Test 2 (Deck 4) Flashcards
What are the 5 cardinal signs of INFLAMMATION?
Calor (heat)
Rubor (redness)
Tumor (swelling)
Dolor (pain)
Laesa (loss of function)
What 4 substances cause vasodilation leading to calor (heat) in inflammation?
Nitric oxide
PGD2
Bradykinin
LTB4
What 6 substances are responsible for tumor (swelling) in inflammation by
increasing vascular permeability
and
inducing release of blood and plasma into damaged tissues?
Histamine
C3a
C5a
PGE2
IL-1
TNF
Bradykinin and PGE2
are responsible for stimulation of neuronal pathways
causing this cardinal sign of inflammation.
Bradykinin and PGE2
cause
DOLOR (PAIN)
What substance is responsible for causing
calor (heat) and dolor (pain)
in inflammation?
Bradykinin
causes dolor and calor (pain and heat)
BCD
What substance is responsible for causing
Tumor (swelling) and Dolor (pain)
in inflammation?
PGE2
causes
Tumor and Dolor (Swelling and Pain)
TED
The 5 cardinal signs of inflammation are more common in what type of inflammation?
Acute inflammation
NOT chronic
What is proud flesh?
A condition of horses
where failure to eliminate the injurious agent causing inflammation
causes the
excessive deposition of scar tissue
Reperfusion injury
Anaphylaxis
and
Eosinophilic stomatitis
are disorders where the mechanism of injury is
____________
inflammation
What are 5 diseases that are
exacerbated by inflammation?
Vegetative Valvular Endocarditis
Porcine Circovirus 2
Mannhaemia hemolytica pneumonia
Mycobacterium bovis
Mycobacterium avium (intracelularis paratuberculosis/ Johne’s dz)
VPMMM
What is this?
Vegetative valvular endocarditis in a cow
What’s going on with this cat? What is this called?
Rodent Ulcer
What is the MDx?
Eosinophilic chelitis
Feline eosinophilic granuloma complex
is better known as
Rodent Ulcer
Flame figures
seen in histology of a swab of the oral mucosa of a cat
are indicative of what important inflammatory disorder?
Rodent Ulcer
Small foci of collagen fibers expanded by edema and surrounded by degenerated eosinophils are called
Flame figures
seen in
Rodent Ulcer in cats
How is Rodent Ulcer, or “eosinophilic chelitis” treated?
With steroids