Session 2 Lecture 1 Flashcards
Define acute inflammation
- Response of living tissue to injury
Describe some features of acute inflammation
Innate, immediate, early, stereotypes (always the same) and has a short duration (minutes/hours/few days).
What is the purpose of acute inflammation?
- Protect the body against infection
- Clear tissue damage
- Initiate tissue repair
What controls acute inflammation?
Chemical mediators
What are the causes of acute inflammation?
- Foreign bodies
- Immune reaction
- Infection
- Tissue necrosis
- Trauma
- Physical and chemical agents
What are the clinical signs of acute inflammation in Latin?
Rubor, tumor, calor, dolor and loss of function
Rubor
Redness
Tumor
Swelling
Calor
Heat
Dolor
Pain
What are the phases of acute inflammation
- Vascular phase
2. Cellular phase
What are the tissue level changes that occur in acute inflammation?
- Changes in blood flow
- Exudation of fluid into tissues
- Infiltration of inflammatory cells
What is the first part of vascular phase of inflammation?
Changes in blood flow
What is the second part of the vascular phase of inflammation?
Exudation of fluid into tissues
Give an overview of what happens in acute inflammation
- Transient vasoconstriction of arterioles
- Vasodilation of arterioles and then capillaries
- Increased permeability of blood vessels
- Conc of RBC in the small vessels increases
What is a chemical mediator that is important in acute inflammation?
Histamine - responsible for the immediate early response
Where is histamine released from?
Mast cells, basophils and platelets
When is histamine released?
IN response to many stimuli: physical damage; immunological reactions; C3a, C5a, IL-1; factors from neutrophils and platelets.
What does histamine cause?
- Vascular dilatation
- Transient increases in vascular permeability
- Pain
What is Starling’s law?
Fluid flow across vessel walls is determines by the balance of hydrostatic and colloid osmotic pressure comparing plasma ad interstitial fluid.
What happens with increased hydrostatic pressure?
Increase fluid out of the vessel
What happens with increased colloid osmotic pressure on interstitium?
Increased fluid flow out of vessel
Explain/ describe how you can get oedema in acute inflammation?
- Arteriolar dilatation leads to inc hydrostatic pressure
- Inc permeability of vessel walls leads to loss of protein into interstitium
- Net flow of fluid out of the vessel leads to oedema
Define oedema
Excess fluid in interstitium