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Session 2 Lecture 1 Flashcards

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Define acute inflammation

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  • Response of living tissue to injury
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Describe some features of acute inflammation

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Innate, immediate, early, stereotypes (always the same) and has a short duration (minutes/hours/few days).

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What is the purpose of acute inflammation?

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  • Protect the body against infection
  • Clear tissue damage
  • Initiate tissue repair
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What controls acute inflammation?

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Chemical mediators

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What are the causes of acute inflammation?

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  • Foreign bodies
  • Immune reaction
  • Infection
  • Tissue necrosis
  • Trauma
  • Physical and chemical agents
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What are the clinical signs of acute inflammation in Latin?

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Rubor, tumor, calor, dolor and loss of function

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Rubor

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Redness

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Tumor

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Swelling

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Calor

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Heat

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Dolor

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Pain

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What are the phases of acute inflammation

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  1. Vascular phase

2. Cellular phase

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What are the tissue level changes that occur in acute inflammation?

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  1. Changes in blood flow
  2. Exudation of fluid into tissues
  3. Infiltration of inflammatory cells
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What is the first part of vascular phase of inflammation?

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Changes in blood flow

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What is the second part of the vascular phase of inflammation?

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Exudation of fluid into tissues

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Give an overview of what happens in acute inflammation

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  1. Transient vasoconstriction of arterioles
  2. Vasodilation of arterioles and then capillaries
  3. Increased permeability of blood vessels
  4. Conc of RBC in the small vessels increases
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What is a chemical mediator that is important in acute inflammation?

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Histamine - responsible for the immediate early response

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Where is histamine released from?

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Mast cells, basophils and platelets

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When is histamine released?

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IN response to many stimuli: physical damage; immunological reactions; C3a, C5a, IL-1; factors from neutrophils and platelets.

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What does histamine cause?

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  • Vascular dilatation
  • Transient increases in vascular permeability
  • Pain
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What is Starling’s law?

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Fluid flow across vessel walls is determines by the balance of hydrostatic and colloid osmotic pressure comparing plasma ad interstitial fluid.

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What happens with increased hydrostatic pressure?

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Increase fluid out of the vessel

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What happens with increased colloid osmotic pressure on interstitium?

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Increased fluid flow out of vessel

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Explain/ describe how you can get oedema in acute inflammation?

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  • 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
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Define oedema

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Excess fluid in interstitium

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What are the two different types of oedema?
- Transudate | - Exudate
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Transudate oedema
Oedema has a lower protein content than the plasma. | - Caused when the fluid loss is due to hydrostatic pressure imbalance only
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Exudate oedema
Oedema has a higher protein content than plasma | - caused when you have fluid loss due to inflammation
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What causes endothelial contraction?
Histamine and leukotrienes
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What causes cytoskeleton reoganisation?
Cytokines, IL-1 and TNF
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What causes increased transcytosis?
VEGF
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What are the different mechanisms of vascular leakage?
- Endothelial contraction - Cytoskeletal reorganisation - Direct injury - Leukocyte dependent injury - Increased transcytosis
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What delivers plasma proteins to the site of injury?
Fibrin
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What is fibrin?
- Part of the haemostatic cascade | - Crucial to blood clotting because it causes a sticky meshwork to form. Good way to localise inflammation.
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What is the primary type of white blood cell that is involved in inflammation?
Neutrophils
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What are neutrophils?
Type of granulocyte
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What part of inflammation are neutrophils involved in?
Cellular phase
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What are the different steps to the infiltration of neutrophils?
Margination, Rolling, Adhesion and Emigration
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How do neutrophils escape from vessels?
- Relaxation of inter-endothelial cells junctions - Digestion of vascular basement membrane - Movement
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How do neutrophils move?
Chemotaxis
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What is chemotaxis?
The movements along concentration gradients of chemoattractants.
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What do neutrophils do?
Phagocytosis
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What are the different stages of phagocytosis?
Contact, recognition and internalisation
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What facilitates the process of recognition?
Opsonisation
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What are the two main killing mechanisms?
- Oxygen dependent | - Oxygen independent
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What are the main groups of chemical mediators involved in acute inflammation?
- Proteases - Protaglandins/leukotrienes - Cytokines/chemokines
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What are the different types of proteases?
- Kinins - Complement system C3a, C5a - Coagulation/fibrinolytic system
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Which chemical mediators increase blood flow?
Histamine and prostaglandins
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Which chemical mediators cause vascular permeability?
Histamine and leukotrienes
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Which chemical mediators cause neutrophil chemotaxis?
C5a, LTB4, bacterial peptides
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Which chemical mediators cause phagocytosis?
C3b
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What is the hallmark of acute inflammation?
1. Exudate of oedema fluid | - Infiltrate of inflammatory cells
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How does exudation of fluid combat injury?
- Delivers plasma proteins to area of injury - Dilutes toxins - Increases lymphatic drainage
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How does infiltration of cells combat injury?
Removes pathogenic organisms, necrotic debris
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How does vasodilation help combat injury?
Increases delivery and increases temperature
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How does pain and loss of function help combat injury?
Enforces rest, reduces chance of further traumatic damage
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What are the local complications of acute inflammation?
- Swelling - blockage of tubes eg bile duct - Exudate - compression - Loss of fluid - burns
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What are the systemic effects of acute inflammation?
- Fever | - Leukocytosis
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Define shock
A clinical syndrome of circulatory failure
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What might happen after the development of acute inflammation?
- Complete resolution - Continued acute inflammation - Chronic inflammation and fibrous repair - Death
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What are the mechanisms of resolution?
- All mediators of acute inflammation have short half lives - May be inactivated by degredation - Inhibitors may bind

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