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What is acute inflammation?

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  • Initial response to tissue injury
  • Relatively non-specific
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What are triggers of acute inflammation?

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  • Pathogens/infection: bacteria, viruses, parasites
  • Physical: frost bites, burns, radiation
  • Chemical: chemical burns, irritants
  • Mechanical: trauma, tissue crush
  • Foreign: silica, swallowed bones, dentures, sutures
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What is the purpose of acute inflammation?

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  • Alert the body
  • Limit spread (of infection/injury)
  • Protect injured site from becoming infected
  • Eliminate dead cells + tissue
  • Create conditions required for healing
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What are the signs of inflammation?

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  • Redness (rubor): inc BF to injured area
  • Swelling (tumor): fluid accumulation due to inc vasc perm
  • Heat (calor): inc BF + metabolic activity
  • Pain (dolor): release of pain mediators; inc pressure on nerve ends
  • Loss of function (functio laesa): xs swelling + pain
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What agents cause fever?

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Pyrogens: IL-1, TNF-a

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What causes neutrophilia?

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  • G-CSF stimulation of bone marrow
  • Replenish dead neutrophils
  • Release of immature neutrophils
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What are the acute phase reactants?

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  • CRP, fibrinogen, complement, SAP
  • prod in liver
  • induced by IL-6, IL-1, TNF-a
  • Inc fibrinogen -> roleaux -> higher ESR
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What are the 4 vascular events of acute inflammation?

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  1. Vasodilation: due to histamine, 5HT release from injured cells
  2. Inc BF to injured area: results in influx of WBC, O2, nutrients
  3. Inc vessel perm: endothelial cells contract, results in leakage of fluid + cells in injured tissue
  4. Walling off of injured area: due to formation of fibrinogen clots
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What does inflammatory exudate consist of?

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  • Water
  • Salts
  • Small plasma proteins (fibrinogen)
  • Inflammatory cells
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What are the 4 different types of inflammatory exudate?

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  • Purulent
  • Fibrinous
  • Serous
  • Haemorrhagic
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What are the cellular events of acute inflammation?

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  1. Migration + accumulation of cells
    - > first step - neutrophils
    - > involves a complex process of exit from blood vessels
  2. Removal of pathogens/injured/dead cells
    - > neutrophils phagocytose pathogens + dead tissue
    - > neutrophils live briefly -> dead neutrophils = pus
  3. Migration + accumulation of monocytes
    - > monocytes diferentiate into macrophages
    - > phagocytosis -> clearance of injured site
    - > release factors that promote tissue repair (TGF-B)
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What are the 5 steps of neutrophil recruitment?

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  1. Rolling
  2. Integrin activation by chemokines
  3. Firm adhesion
  4. Transmigration through endothelium into tissue
  5. Chemotaxis to inflammed site
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Which molecules are involved in neutrophil recruitment?

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  • Selectins
  • Integrins
  • Immunoglobulin superfamily cell adhesion molecules (CAMs)
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What is the role of selectins?

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  • Mediate rolling of neutrophils
  • Expressed by activated endothelium
  • Selectins bind to ligands on neutrophils
  • Ligands - carbohydrates
  • Low affinity interaction -> disrupted by flowing blood -> repetetive binding + detaching -> rolling; slow down
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What are the two types of selectins?

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  • P-selectin - preformed granules
  • E-selectin - induced by IL-1 and TNF-a
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How does integrin play into neutrophil recruitment?

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  • Rolling neutrophils express integrins (LFA-1)
  • Integrins in low affinity configuration; no binding to ligands
  • Activated endothelial cells produce chemokines
  • Chemokines bind to receptors on neutrophils
  • -> integrin activation -> high affinity configuration
  • Binding of integrins to ligands on endothelium
  • -> firm adhesion of neutrophils to endothelium
  • Integrin ligands: ICAM-1, VCAM-1
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Describe neutrophil transmigration

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  • Neutrophils migrate through interendothelial spaces
  • Neutrophils pass through vessel wall + enter tissue
  • Migrate (chemotaxis) through tissue towards inflammed site
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Describe neutrophil chemotaxis including examples

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  • Movement of cells into inflammed sites
  • Guided by chemoattratants:
    • Chemokines (IL-8)
    • Complement components (C5a)
    • Bacterial components (formyl-methionyl petides)

*Note that monocytes use similar mechanisms to leave blood vessels and enter sites of inflammation

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At the inflammation site, neutrophils clear pathogens. How do they do this?

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  • Release of granule content
  • Phagocytosis
  • Generation of reactive oxygen species
  • Formation of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs)
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What can be phagocytosed?

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  • Pathogens
  • Damaged cells
  • Dead cells
  • Nutrients
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What are the roles of phagocytosis?

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  • Protection from pathogens
  • Disposal of damaged/dying cells
  • Processing + presentation of antigens
    • activation of adaptive immune system
    • links innate + adaptive immunity
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Name some mediators of acute inflammation

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  • Inflammatory cytokines: IL-1, TNF-a
  • Histamine, prostaglandins, leukotrienes
  • Chemokines: IL-8
  • Complement (C5a)
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What are the 3 possible outcomes of acute inflammation?

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  1. Resolution
  2. Repair
  3. Chronic inflammation
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What is regeneration?

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  • Damaging agent removed
  • Injured tissue replaced by cells of same type
  • No change in tissue structure/function
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What is repair by replacement?
* Injured tissue replaced with connective tissue * Scarring -\> can alter tissue function
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What is an abscess?
* Mass of necrotic (dead) tissue * Caused by pyogenic (pus-forming) bacteria * Can become chronic if not reabsorbed/drained
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Which tissues have **high** regeneration ability?
* Epithelial cells * Blood cells Sometimes perfect regeneration, no scarring
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Which tissues have an **intermediate** regeneration ability?
* May regenerate when injured * Eg. liver, kidney, pancreas * If extensive injury -\> scarring
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Which tissues have no/limited regeneration ability?
* Neurons * Skeletal muscle * Myocardium Heal with fibrosis, scarring, loss of function
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What are factors that favour resolution?
* **minimal** destruction * minimal cell death * **good regenration** **ability** of injured tissue * **fast clearance** of infection * **quick removal** of dead tissue (debris)
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What factors prevent healing?
* **extensive** injury * poor **vascular supply** * haemorrhage * infection * poor **general health**/nutrition; diabetes * old age * drugs: corticosteroids
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What is chronic inflammation?
* damaging/infective agent persists * persistent inflammation * tissue destruction

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