Wound healing Flashcards

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what are labile cells?

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Little time in G0 and are in skin, lungs, GIT, GUT

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What are stable cells?

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Need to be injured in order to be simulated, in liver, kidney tubules, mesenchymal tissue

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What are permanent cells?

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Do not replace with functional tissue but rather with scar that impedes function–in neurons, cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle

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Secreted by platelets and macrophages; stimulates vascular remodeling (vasodilation and vascular permeability, fibroblasts growth and fibroblast production of collagen I and III

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Platelet derived Growth Factor (PDGF)

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What clinical outcome in woundhealing gone crazy is PDGF involved in?

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hypertrophic scars and keloid

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Stimulates angiogensis and fibrosis (through SMADs) and inhibit proliferation of other cells (leading to inflammation)

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Transforming Growth Factor-Beta (TGF-B)

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Released by platelets at first and then by leukocytes, macrophages, fibroblasts and keratinocytes

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TGF-B

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What are the general roles of FGF?

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chemotaxis, wound healing, angiogenesis, collagen production

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What do FGF1&2 do?

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stimulate angiogenesis and enhance fibroblasts activity, and controls skeletal development

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What does FGF7 do?

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cell proliferation

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What happens when there is mutation in FGFR3?

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Achondroplasia ( due to overgrowth of immature chondrocytes)

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Stimulates angiogensis for wound healing, embryogenesis, collateral circulation (compensation when capillaries are blocked)

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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors (VEGF)

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Cell proliferation through RTK and mut related to cancer

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Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)

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What is connective tissues made up of?

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Cells (fibroblasts and myofibroblasts, mast cells, macrophages), ground substance (proteoglycans, adhesive glycoproteins) and fibers

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Important role of Vit. C in collagen production?

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Hydroxylation of Proline and lysine

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Where is type I collagen found in? necessary for?

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Bone, skin, tendons, cornea; wound healing (last stage)

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Where is type II collagen found?

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cartilage, vitreous humor, nucleus pulposus

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Where is type III collagen found? also called? necessary for?

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Blood vessels, fetus uterus, reticular fibers; reticulin; early found healing/granulation tissue

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Where is type IV collagen found?

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Basement membrane (basal lamina) and lens

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Where does Hydroxylation, Glycosylation and triple helix formation of collagen take place?

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rough ER

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What is collagen transcribed as?

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Preprocollagen

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How do you form insoluble tropocollagen and where does it take place?

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cleave the terminal region and it takes place extracellularly

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How do lysine and hydroxylysine crosslink in tropocollagen?

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Lysyl oxidase and copper–leads tot collagen fibrils formation

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autoimmune attack on collagen IV chain, hemorhage in lungs and kidney (hemoptosis –cough blood– and hematuria)

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Goodpasture’s disease

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What happens when you produce less collagen?

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aging, wrinkles

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Vit. C def leads to swollen gums, bleeding, poor wound healing?

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Scurvy

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Sx: Aut dom mut. in Collagen I (two types), brittle bones, multiple factors, loose joints, hearing loss, poor teeth, blue sclera?

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Osteogensis Imperfecta

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How does blue Sclera happen?

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Lack of collagen so eye lining is thin-so white part of eye is thin so you can see underlying veins –thus blue

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heterogeneity due to defective collagen synth. of skin, joints and blood vessels

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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

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Sx: Hyperextensible skin, joint instability (hypermobile), easy bleeding and bruising, abnormal wound healing, vessel wall degeneration (heart valves –weak)

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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

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Types of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

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Classical: Type V collagen
Vascular: Type III collagen (organ rupture, valve prolapse, most severe, blood vessel wall not sturdy)

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Describe Elastin?

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insoluble, tropoelastin, little hydroxyproline no hydroxylysine

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What links Elastin molecules?

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Desmosine and isodesmosine

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What is Fribrillin 1?

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Scaffolding protein thats around elastin coded by FBN1 and binds and sequesters TGF-B

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What is elastin fibers broken down by?

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Elastase

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What happens when you have alpha-1-antitrypsin def.?

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Lungs have holes (emphysema) as bombarded with neutrophils elastase; (similar featuresalso seen in smoking

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Mut. in FBN1 leads to?

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Marfan syndrome and excess TGF-B so decreased elasticity

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Sx: (wingspan> height) Dolichostenmelia, arachnodactyly, scoliosis, hyperflexibility, inverted sternum, pectus excavatum

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Marfan syndrome

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Sx: Eyes: ectopia lens, CV: aneurysms, aortic dissection –mitral valve prolapse and spontanrous pneumothorax

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Marfan Syndrom

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Most severe cause of death in Marfan syndrome

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Mitral valve prolapse

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What is loose connective tissue?

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loosely arranged fibers, much ground subs, most abundant type; holds organs in place, allows for movement of nutrients and ions to cells

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Example loose connective tissue?

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Lamina propria: GI Tract, have immune cells, immediately below epithelial.

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What is dense irregular connective tissue? Where is it?

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few cells, irregularly arranged cells, submucosa of GIT, and reticular layer of dermis

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What is dense regular connective tissue? where is it?

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densely packed, parallel, organized fibers, few cells; tendons, ligaments, aponeuroses

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Permanent cells of connective tissue?

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Fibroblasts, myofibroblasts, macrophages, mast cells

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Most numerous cells in connective cells? What do they do?

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Fibroblasts secrete fibers, ground substance, MMPs, and GFs

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Express alpha-smooth muscle actin contraction; necessary for secondary intention

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myofibroblasts

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Cells with granules that secrete histamine, heparin

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Mast cells

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Marked by tryptase, key cell for Type I hypersensitivity (allergy and asthma) and make and relase growth factors, cytokines and enzymes

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Mast cells

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Participate in innate and adaptive immunity, phagocytize foregin material, blood, and dead cells

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Macrophages or histiocytes

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Present antigens and also release cytokines, GFs, enzymes for inflammation and wound healing

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Macrophages or histiocytes

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What is ground substance?

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gel-like and viscous, occupies space between cells and fibers and made up of proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans and adhesive glycoproteins

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Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are able to pull water due to?

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sulfates that make them negatively charged (heparin, chondriotin, keratin, dermatan)

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What does hylauronic acid (Glycosaminoglycans) do?

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Backbone for proteoglycans, large and lubricant–shock absorbs

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Developmental delay, corneal clouding, distinct face, hepatosplenomegaly, claw hands, autosomal recessive, accumulation of mucopolysaccharides

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Hurler syndrome

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aggressive behavior, dev. delays, accumulation of mucopolysaccharides, X-Recessive

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Hunter Syndrome

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What are proteoglycans?

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(100 sulf-GAGs+ core proteins) core proteins attached to GAGs and hyaluronic acid, negatively charged and large–have various functions

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adhesive glycoprotein that has cell- ECM binding

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Fibronectin

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Proteins involved in linking fibronectin, laminin?

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integrins, type IV collagen, heparin and fibrin

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adhesive glycoprotein that has cell- basement membrane binding

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laminin

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adhesive glycoprotein that modulate cell-ecm

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Tenascin

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adhesive glycoprotein that bind to osteocytes and integrin receptor on osteoclasts

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osteopontin

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Fibers of connective tissues

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Collagen (I), reticular (heavily sugared Collagen III) and elastin fibers (elastin and fibrillin)

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What does collagen do?

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Tensile strength and wound healing

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What does reticular do?

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support system for organs

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What does elastic fibers do?

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stretchy, capable of elastic recoil–rubber band

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What does VEGF do in angiogenesis?

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Loosen endothelial junctions and increase vascular permeability

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What happens during angiogenesis as stalk EC and tip EC form?

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Extracellular matrix degrade, pericyte detach, matrix-bound angiogenic molecules (MMp) release and the tip migrates due to VEGF and Notch

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Examples of pro-angiogenic mediators?

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VEGF, bFGF, PDGF, IL-8, HGF (hepatocyte), PIGF (placental)

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How can proangiogenic factors induce angiogensis?

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directly or indirectly (through inflammatory cells or pericytes)

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Examples of anti-angiogenic mediators?

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Thrombospondin, interferon a/b, angiostatin, endostatin

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What is the angiogenic switch?

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A balance of activators and inhibitors of angiogenic process that are stimulated in either direction if a certain threshold is passed

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How is angiogenic switch turned on?

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Inflammation (deliver pro-angiogenic mediators by inflammatory cells), Hypoxia–sense of low oxygen by HIF (Hypoxia-inducible factor) and stimulation of pro-angiogenic mediator production.

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Why is angiogenic regulation important to study?

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Health(development and wound healing), disease (therapeutic implications for disease).

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What’s the role of blood vessels in tumor?

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for growth and metastasis

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Characteristics of blood vessels in tumor?

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increased in number; disorganized and ‘tortuous’, extremely permeable (endothelial junctions not tight); coverage of basement membrane and pericyte is abnormal).

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Anti-angiogenic concept?

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Starvation hypothesis: treatment with angiogenic inhibitor will allow the vessel to regress and tumour shrinks

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Strategies for anti-angiogensis therapy?

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reduce activators (expression/production); bioavailability, signaling; or increase inhibitors (production or exogenous addtition)

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Examples of antoangiogenic agents classification?

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VEGF blocking agents; small molecule RTKIs; Endogenous inhibitors

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Problems with anti-angiogenesis therapy?

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High cost, modest overall survival advantage, side effects, resistance (but can target other pro-angiogenic pathways at the same time: eg pericyte and endothelial cells).

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Side effects of VEGF therapy?

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wound healing complication, female reproductive cycle and abnormal fetal development

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Type of wounds

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chronic (no heal in 30 days, poor nutrition, diabetes, age)
acute (surgery and trauma, heal)
Abrasion : superficial scrape of skin
Laceration: deep cut (stab)
Puncture: penetrates (nail or gunshot)
Avulsion: complete or partial tear of skin +tissue
Contusion: underlying skin becomes bad (blunt force trauma)

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Phases of repair

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Hemostasis and inflammation; proliferation, remodeling

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Hemostasis is?

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Platelets being activated, plug damage vessles with fibrin, and releasing alpha granules (growth factor, cytokines)

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Why is inflammatory phase important?

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hemostasis, clear debris and foregin material, destory pathogen and stimulate subsequent healing

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What are signs of inflammation?

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Redness (erythema) , heat (vasodilation), swelling (edema) and pain

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How is inflammation regulated?

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pro-inflammatory mediators when pathogen or damage detected: relase cytokines, histamines, lipids, plasma proteins

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Positive effects of inflammation?

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prevent infection, clear debris and dead cells, growth factor

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Negative effects of inflammation?

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proteases and ROS–damage, so delayed healing and promote fibrosis

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What is involved in reepithilzation? What is required?

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keratinocytes; proliferation, migration and differentiation (all induced by growth factors)

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What are mediators of proliferative phase?

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growth factors

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What growth factors stimulate keratinocytes?

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EGF, KGF, TGF-alpha

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What dissolves ECM?

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Metalloproteinases and proteases

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After keratinocytes migrate, do they differentiate to fully functional stratified epidermis?

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Yes. (tope) Corneal layer, granular, spinous and basal)

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Why do wounds not heal?

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defective keratinocytes migration and insufficent angiogensis/ischemia, defective granulation and fibroblasts activity, persistent inflammation, and infection

96
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ulcers by uncontrolled diabetes, peripheral neurapathy

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Diabetic foot ulcers

97
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Ulcer caused by not enough venous blood flow and found on lower leg between knee and ankle (commonly)

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Venous Stasis ulcers

98
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ulcers caused by prolonged unrelieved pressure and around tailbone, hips, heels, and elbows

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Pressure ulcers (decubitus ulcers/bedsores)

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Which phase does angiogenesis take place of wound healing?

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proliferative

100
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hypoxia and inflammation induces pro-angiogenesis through which growth factors?

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VEGF, PDGF, and FGF-2

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what growth factors timulate fibroblast proliferation, migration, and collagen production?

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TGF-beta, PDGF, and FGF-2

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what does amount of scar tissue depends on?

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ratio of matrix production to matrix degredation

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When does fibrosis happen?

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When ECM synthesis is greater than degredartion

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What happens if TIMPs increases (tissue inibitor of metalloproteinases)

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MMPs does not destory matrix: so, scar and fibrosis

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problems with scars?

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70% strength of skin, psychosocial, reduce joint mobility, interfere with organ function

106
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excessive scar that extends beyond initial injury, hard to treat, in asians and african american

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keloids

107
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Raised red scar, along orginal wound

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hypertrophic scars

108
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tightening of skin that effects underlying muscles and tendens–inelastic ecm instead of normal

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contractures

109
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What happens in lung fibrosis?

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no gas exchange–death

110
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What disrupts balance of collagen synth and degr.?

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inflammation–resulting in fibrosis

111
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liver regeneration?

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compensatory hyperplasia

112
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What is in a scar tissue?

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disorganized and Excess collagen, less strengthm loss of appendages (hair follicles), loss of function and psychosocial problems