Robbins Ch 3: Inflammation and Repair Flashcards
what are three major components of acute inflammation (AI)
- dilation of small vessels
- increased permeability of microvasculature
- emigration of leukocytes to site of injury
Define exudate and when is it commonly seen?
The escape of fluid, proteins, and blood cells from vascular system into interstitial tissue or body cavities. Commonly seen in site of inflammation.
what is a transudate?
Escape of fluid with low protein content, little or no cellular material, and low specific gravity.
_ results from osmotic or hydrostatic imbalance across vessel wall w/o an increase in vascular permeability.
transudate
Edema results from exudate, transudate or both?
Both
Is pus a transudate or an exudate?
exudate
The changes in vascular flow and caliber as seen during acute inflammation, Vasodilation is mediated by _
histamine, prostaglandins, platelet-activating factor, kinins. But the MAIN player is histamine.
List the following vascular changes and caliber as seen in AI in order:
- Vasodilation
- Vascular permeability
- Stasis
- Leukocyte accumulation
1 –>2 –> 3–>4
Increased vascular permeability is a hallmark of acute inflammation. which vessels are these changes seen in?
Postcapillary venules.
Explain the mechanism via which vascular permeability take place.
- Contraction of endothelial ells resulting in increased interendothelial spaces.
- Endothelial injury, resulting in endothelial cell necrosis and detachment
- Increased transport of fluids and proteins (transcytosis) through the endothelial cell.
What causes the immediate transient response as seen in vascular permeability?
Histamine, bradykinin, leukotrienes and other
What are the mediators of vascular permeability?
Histamine, bradykinin, leukotrienes, and other
Give an example where you’d likely to see delayed prolonged leakage as a sign of acute inflammation.
sun burns.
Give an example of a factor that can cause transcytosis as seen in vascular permeability.
VEGF
List few changes seen in lymphatic vessels, and flow that accompanies AI.
- lymph flow is increased and helps drain edema fluid that accumulates becuase of increased vascular permeability.
- lymphatic vessels proliferate during inflammation
- lymphatic can become secondarily inflamed (lymphagitis)
What is reactive lymphadenitis?
Inflamed lymph nodes and enlargement due to hyperplasia of the lymphoid follicles and increased number of lymphocytes and macrophages.
A patient presents to clinic after an appendectomy. The physician notes red streaks near the skin of the incision. What do the streaks indicate?
Infection. The streaking follows the course of the lymphatic channels and is diagnostic of lymphangitis.
As seen during margination, how does the vascular shear stress change?
Wall shear stress decreases allowing for more leukocytes to assume peripheral position.
What two major family of molecules are involved in leukocyte adhesion and migration?
Selectins and integrins
What molecules mediates the initial rolling interactions as seen in leukocyte recruitment to site of injury and what are their ligands?
selectins (E, L, and P). Their ligands are sialylated oligosaccharides bound to mucin-like glycoprotein backbones.
What cytokines mediates the expression of selectin and their ligands?
Cytokines like NTF, IL1 and chemokines.
What two cytokines specifically induces expression of adhesion molecules on endothelial cells of postcapillary venules adjacent to the injury?
TNF and IL-1
Where are P-selectins stored and what mediates their redistribution from storage to cell surface?
They are stored in Weibel-Palade bodies in endothelial cell granules. Histamine and thrombin stimulates their redistribution to cell surface.
Leukocytes express which selectin and ligands for what selectins?
Expresses L-selectin, and expresses ligands for E and P selectins