Inflammation Flashcards

1
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Define inflammation

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Reaction of vascularized living tissue to injury

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2
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Characteristics of inflammation

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Changes in vascular bed, blood, CT

Intended to eliminate irritant and repair damaged tissue

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3
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Signs of inflammation

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Redness
Heat 
Swelling 
Pain 
Loss of function
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4
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What are the roles of inflammation

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Dilute, contain and isolate injury

Destroy invading microorganisms and/or inactivate toxins

Healing and repair

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5
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What are the three main outcomes of inflammation

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Ideal conditions-> return to normal

Intense inflammatory response-> separate injured tissue

Failure-> sequel

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6
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What must occur for the outcome of inflammation to return to normal

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Elimination of source of injury
Resolve inflammatory process
Restore normal issue architecture and physiological functions

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7
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What occurs if the outcome of inflammation is an intense inflammatory response?

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Attempt to isolate inflammatory process and formation of a wall, like a capsule (e.g. abscess)

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8
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If inflammation fails what is the outcome of the inflammatory process?

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Persistence of inflammatory cells

Scar formation

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9
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T/F: inflammation can occur in non-living tissue

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F

Only in living tissue

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10
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T/F: inflammation can be more harmful than the initiating stimulus

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T

Eg anaphylactic shock
Over-reaction

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11
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T/F: inflammation is unpredicatable due to the variety of initiating stimulus

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F

Inflammation is fairly predictable irrespective of the initiating stimulus

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12
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T/F: inflammation is a highly redundant process with many promoters and regulators

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T

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13
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T/F: inflammation occurs only in vascularized tissues

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T

Critically tied to the blood (plasma, cells, vessels, cellular and extracellular component of CT)

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14
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The escape of fluid, proteins, and blood cells from he vascular system into the intersitum or body cavities

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Exudaiton

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15
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Exudation implies what about blood vessels?

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Alteration of normal permeability

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16
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A extravasular fluid that has: high protein concentration, cellular debris, and high specific gravity (>1.02)

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Exudate

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17
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A fluid with low protein content and low specific gravity (<1.02)

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Transudate

Results from hydrostatic imbalances across the vascular endothelium

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18
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The fluid in a hydrothorax is __________

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Transudate

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19
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The fluid in a pyothorax is ___________

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Exudate

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20
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__________ is excess fluid in the interstitial tissue or serous cavities, it can be an exudate or transudate

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Edema

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21
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_________ is an inflammatory exudate rich in leuckocytes (primarily neutorphils) and parchymal cell debris

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Pus

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22
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How is inflammation classified?

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Extent (min->severe)
Duration (periacute->chronic) 
Distribution (focal -> diffuse)
Exudate 
Anatomical modifiers 
Organ
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23
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What are the main characteristics of a peracute inflammation

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Usually from a potent stimulus
No time to response

Time 0-4hrs
Vascular: 
-hyperemia 
-slight edema 
-hemorrhage 
Inflammatory cells:
-few leukocytes 
Clinical signs: 
-shock, sudden death
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24
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Infectious canine hepatitis is an example of ______________ inflammation

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Peracute

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25
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What are characteristics of acute inflammation

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TIME: 4-6hrs

Vascular:

  • active hyperemia
  • edema
  • occasional fibrin thrombi within vessels

Inflammatory cells:

  • leukocytes infiltration is variable
  • neutrophils are predominant

Clinical signs
-classical inflammation (heat, red, swelling, pain, loss of function)

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26
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Reactive inflammation of lymph nodes

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Lymphadenitis

-occurs in acute, subacute, and chronic inflammation

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27
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Inflammation of lymphatic vessels

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Lymphangitis

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28
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What is subacute inflammation

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Gradual change between acute and chronic

Inflammatory response DOES NOT include reparative response such as fibroplasia and angiogenesis

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29
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What are the characteristics of subacute inflammation

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TIME: larger time span

Vascular:

  • decline in magnitude of vascular changes
  • compared to acute inflammation

Inflammatory cells:

  • mixed or pleocellular inflammatory infiltrate
  • primarily neutrophilic
  • lymphocytes, macrophages, and plasma cells
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30
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What are not features of subacute inflammation

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Fibrosis and neovascularization

31
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When can chronic inflammation arise and what is evidence of it in tissue

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Persistent stimulus -host has failed to eliminate causative agent

Evidence of host tissue response

  • scar formation-> fibrosis
  • parenchyma regeneration
32
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What are characteristics of chronic inflammation

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TIME: variable

Vascular involvement: proliferation of capillaries and small blood vessesl –> hemorrhage and congestion

Inflammatory cells:
-mononuclear-> lymphocytes/macrophage/plasma cells/fibroblasts

Clinical signs: prolonged duration of inflammatory lesions

Sometimes lymphatic involvement

33
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Single or abnormality or inflamed area in tissue

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Focal inflammation

Usually 1mm to several cm

34
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Arising from or pertaining to many foci

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Multifocal

35
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Distribution that involves considerable zone of tissue within a inflamed organ

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Locally extensive

36
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What are the possible origins of locally extensive distribution

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Severe local reactions that spread into adjacent normal tissue

Coalescence of foci in a multifocal reaction

37
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What type of distribution involves the entire tissue

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Diffuse

38
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Diffuse lesions are often due to _________ or ___________ in etiology

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Viral or toxic

39
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Type of exudation consisting of or containing pus

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Suppurative

OR purulent

40
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Liquid inflammation composed of accumulated dead cells,leukocytes, and fluid from inflammatory edema-forming process

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Pus

41
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The process by which pus is formed

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Suppuration

-implies neutrophils and proteolytic enzymes are present, and necrosis of the host cells has occurred.

42
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Collection of pus walled of in a fiberous capsule

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Abscess

43
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Severe injury to endothelium and basement membranes results in ____________ exudation

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Fibrous

44
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Yellow-white or pale stringy/shaggy meshwork which gives a rough irregular appearance to the tissue surfaces.

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Fibrinous inflammation

45
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Inflammatory process where neutrophils and fibrin are abundant

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Fibrinopurulent exudate

46
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What is the difference between fibrinous exudate and fibrosis

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Fibrinous exudate- acute
Fibrosis - chronic

Different stages of the same process: transformation of fibrinous exudate (acute) into well vascularized CT fibrosis (chronic)

Fibrin on tissue surface is easily broken
Provides support for eventual i growth of fibroblasts and neocapillaries
Removed by fibrinolysis or by phagocytosis

47
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Inflammatory process in which the exudate occurs in tissues int he absence of prominent cellular response

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Serous exudation

48
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What are the contents of serous exudate

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Rich in protein

Derived from blood and locally injured cells

49
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Yellow, straw-like colour fluid

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Serous exudate

50
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What will follow the rupture of a vesicle filled with serous exudate

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Ulceration

51
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What type of inflammation is always chronic and has lymphocytes, macrophages, and plasma cells

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Granulomatous inflammation

52
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What are the most abundant cells in granulomatous inflammation

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Macrophages

Epitheliod and multinucleated giant cells

53
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What is usually the etiology of granulomatous infection

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Non-digestible organism or particle which serves as a chronic inflammatory stimulus

Mycobacterium, Actinomycetes, Blastomyces, Coccidiodies

Mineral roil, compels polysaccharides, or foreign bodies

54
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Necrotizing inflammation

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Necrosis is main feature with minimal exudation

Process is interpreted as inflammatory rather than purely ischemic

55
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Hemorrhagic inflammation

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Hemorrhage is the main feature

Etiologic agent will indicate that the process is inflammatory rather than a circulatory disturbance

56
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Segmental inflammation

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Usually to describe intestinal

Only a segment is affected

57
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Catarrhal inflammation

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Aka mucopurulent

Exudate is composed of mucus and pus

58
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What are the polymorphonuclear leukocytes

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Neutrophil
Eosinophil
Basophil
Mast cell

59
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What are the mononuclear inflammatory cells

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Lymphocytes
Plasma cells
Monocytes and macrophages
Platelets

60
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Cells with a multilobed nucelus containing abundant cytoplasmic granules

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Neutrophils

61
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What are the two types of granules of neutrophils

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Azurophil (primary) -dense

Specific (secondary)

62
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What are characteristics of neutrophils

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Highly motile -amoebic movement
Chemotatic reponse
Phagocytic and bactericidal activities

63
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What are the functions of neutrophils

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Phagocytosis and secretion of pro-inflammatory substances

Mediate tissue injury (free radicals and lysosome enzymes) and regulate inflammatory response (chemical mediators)

Kill microorganisms by

  • free radicals
  • hydrogen peroxide
  • lysosome enzymes
64
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Eosinophils are common in what response?

A

Allergic

Parasite

65
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Bright eosinophilic granules, segmented nucelus

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Eosinophils

66
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What are the granules of eosinophilic cells

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Small 
Primary 
Large secondary 
-major basic protein 
-eosinophilic cationic protein 
-eosinophil derived neurotoxin 
-eosinophil peroxidase
67
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_____________ is strongly toxic to parasites and cells and can cause histamine release from mast cells and basophils

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Major basic protein

68
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_____________ contributes to parasite killing and shortens coagulation time

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Eosinophilic cationic protein

69
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What are ways eosinophils are effective in killing helminth parasites

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Antibody-depended cell-mediated cytoxicity
Adherence and degranulation on helminth
-> major basic protein and esopinophilic cationic protein

70
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What cells mediate the antibody response and the delayed cellular hypersensitivity response??

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Lymphocytes and plasma cells

71
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Cells with dense staining nucleus and very little cytoplasm

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Lymphocytes

72
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What are the functions of macrophages

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Phagocytosis
Modulate inflammation and repair
Regulate immune response
Produce IL1

73
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Cells with a prominent, central nucleus which may be folded or bean-shaped
Azurophilic granules

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Machrophage

74
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Activation of macrophages results in what cellular changes?

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Increase cell size
Increase lysosomal enzymes
Increase metabolism
Increase ability to phagocytose