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Inflammation - Key Terms Flashcards

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Goals of Inflammation

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  1. Eliminate initial cause of injury
  2. Remove dead cells
  3. Begin process of tissue repair
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Innate immunity

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The defense system a person is born with

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Components of innate immunity

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  1. Physical barriers
  2. Enzymes (lysozymes)
  3. Complement proteins
  4. C-reactive protein
  5. Toll-like receptors
  6. Cells releasing inflammatory mediators
  7. Antimicrobial peptides
  8. Phagocytes
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Benefit of inflammation

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  1. Interact with acquired immune system
  2. Prevent further tissue damage
  3. Prevent spread of infection by dilution of pathogens
  4. Prepare area for healing
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Complement proteins

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Destroy bacteria

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WBCS

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Prevent inflammatory response from spreading to healthy tissues, eat pathogens

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Plasma protein system

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Clotting

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Granulomatous response

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Inflammation contains the infection/damaged site by walling it off

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Vascular events in inflammation

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  1. Arterioles temporarily constrict
  2. Brief vasoconstriction followed by vasodilation (this lasts)
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What do damaged cells release

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Prostaglandins and leukotrienes that cause vasodilation

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What does vasodilation help with during the vascular events

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  1. Slows blood velocity
  2. Increases blood flow to increase tissue perfusion
  3. Causes redness and warmth at site
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What are plasma protein systems known as

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Cascades

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Complement system

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Normally circulate in inactive form and cause
1. Increased vascular permeability and vasodilation
2. Chemotaxis
3. Opsonization
4. Cell killing

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How is complement protein system triggered?

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  1. Activated by IgC or IgM antigen-antibody complexes.
  2. Lectin pathway - can opsonin for phagocytosis or activate next part of cascade
  3. Alternative pathway activated as part of innate immune system
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Coagulation/clotting system is activated by

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Extrinsic and intrinsic pathway

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Thrombin

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Enzyme that proteolytically activates fibrinogen

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Thrombin is a part of what system

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Clotting

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What does the clotting system do

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Stops bleeding, localizes microorganisms, provides a meshwork for repair and healing.
Prevents spread of infection by bacteria remaining at localized site

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Factor XII

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Activates plasma proteins, promotes formation of bradykinin and kallikrien.

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Kinin System

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Activates and assists inflammatory cells

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Bradykinin

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Most important product of kinin system, like histamine

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What does bradykinin cause

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Vascular permeability, vasodilation, smooth muscle contraction in lungs, and pain

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Kinins

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Potent vasodilators, regulators of inflammatory process, and involved in pain sensation and growth

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What does the endothelium do during inflammation

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Represses receptors that help leukocytes leave the vessel
Retract to allow fluid to pass into tissues

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What is the most important activator of inflammatory response

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Mast cell

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Mast cell

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Initiates inflammation by releasing biochemical mediators

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Histamine

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Major vasoactive amine released from mast cells

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What does histamine do

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Dilation of capillaries and retraction of endothelial cells lining capillaries to increase vascular permeability Causes bronchoconstriction

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Chemotactic factors

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Attract neutrophils and eosinophils to inflammation site

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Neutrophil chemotactic factor

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Attracts neutrophils

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Eosinophil chemotactic factor

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Attracts eosinophils

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What do mast cells release after granules are released

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Leukotrienes, prostaglandins, platelet-activating factor

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Leukotrienes

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Slower and more prolonged responses than histamine in later stages

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Prostaglandins

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Similar effects to leukotrienes and also induce pain

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Platelet-activating factor

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Similar effect to leukotrienes and platelet activation - causes blood clotting

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Chemotaxis

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Movement of an organism in response to a chemical stimulant
Causes WBCs to move

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Leukocyte

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White blood cell

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Phagocytosis

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Lysozyme fuse with phagosome and digest it

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Granulocytes

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Neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils/mast cells

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Monocytes

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Monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells

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Lymphocytes

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T cells, B cells, Natural killer cells

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Neutrophils

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Most common type of WBC
First responders to injury/inflammation
Live about 5 days
Actively phagocytose bacteria

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When do monocytes become macrophages

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When they enter the site 24 hours after neutrophils and replace them

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Dendritic cells

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Antigen-presenting cells found in tissue that contacts the external environment

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Natural killer cells

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Large, granular lymphocytes activated by T-cell released cytokines

Contain perforin and granzyme

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Perforin and granzyme

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Activate cell apoptosis via cell membrane receptors

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Platelets

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Interact with the coagulation cascade to stop bleeding and release a number of mediators that promote and control inflammation

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Primary cell types that produce mediators during acute inflammation

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Macrophages, dendritic cells, mast cells

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Mediators produced in response to specific stimuli

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Short-lived and stimulate the release of other mediators which amplifies the inflammatory response

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Serotonin

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Stored in platelets and neuroendocrine cells in the GI tract - cause vasconstriction

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Eicosanoids

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Lipid mediators

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Cytokines

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Cells of the innate immune system secrete many biochemical mediators that are responsible for activating other cells.

Small proteins that are pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory

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What are examples of cytokines

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Interleukins, chemokines, interferons

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Interleukins

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Most important proinflammatory cytokines are interleukin 1, 6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha

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Interleukins are primarily produced by

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Macrophages and lymphocytes

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IL-6

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Stimulates growth and differentiation of blood cells in the bone marrow, induces hepatocytes from the liver to produce acute phase proteins

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Chemokines

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Group of signaling proteins that act as chemoattractants to recruit leukocytes to areas of damaged tissue

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Interferons

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Produced by cells that are infected by viruses

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Tumor necrosis factor-alpha

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Secreted by macrophages in response to PAMP and toll-like receptor recognition.
Induces fever by acting as an endogenous pyrogen.

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Serous exudate

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Fluid accumulation as a result of tissue injury that does not contain many cells. Watery plasma leaks into IF - blister which indicates early infection

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Exudative

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Contains proteins

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Fibrinous inflammation

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Result of large vascular leak that allows fluid with large proteins to leak out into surrounding tissue
Causes thick clotting

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Purulent inflammation

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Forms pus, which contains many neutrophils, cellular debris, and edema fluid.
Usually walled-off lesions with an abscess/necrotic center

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Suppuration

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Formation of pus that may occur if the pathogen is difficult to eliminate or severe

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Pyogenic bacteria

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Commonly causes pus formation

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Ulceration

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Results from very severe inflammation and is a local defect caused by necrosis of cells and sloughing of necrotic tissue

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Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRR)

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Help to identify pathogen-associated molecular patterns, leading to production and release of cytokines and other chemicals that mediate the response of the cells causing inflammation

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Anti-inflammatory pathways

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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal pathway
Sympathetic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system

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HPA anti-inflammatory pathway controls release of

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Glucocorticoids - Cortisol
Interleukin-10 inhibits production of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages

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Sympathetic nervous system (anti-inflammatory pathway)

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Releases NE and epi to downregulate production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and upregulate the production of anti-inflammatory cytokines
Promotes recruitment of leukocytes
Increases blood and lymph flow

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokine production in the spleen and decreases neutrophil activation

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Principal systemic effects of inflammation are

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Fever and increases in levels of circulating leukocytes and plasma proteins.

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Acute-phase response (definition)

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Systemic effects caused by chemical mediators in inflammatory response

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Acute-phase response

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Fever, increase in serum proteins, leukocytosis, release interleukins and tumor necrosis factor

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Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)

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Severe systemic response to inflammation
Cause is infection: sepsis

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Septic shock

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Bacterial or fungal - vasodilation - peripheral pooling - decreased BP

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Gut barrier failure

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Decrease perfusion of the gut, normal flora bacteria and toxins escape into tissue fluid, inflammatory response, vasodilation, shock

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Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

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Progressive dysfunction of two or more organ systems from uncontrolled inflammatory response to severe illness or injury

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Acute inflammation is characterized by

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Brisk onset of relatively short duration
Prominent systemic signs and local responses

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Chronic inflammation is characterized by

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High levels of lymphocytes, macrophages, monocytes

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Impaired or excessive inflammation is characterized by

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Overexpression of leukocyte adhesion molecules
Production of excessive pro-inflammatory cytokines
Damage to tissues

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Risks for developing chronic inflammation

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Poor blood supply, malnutrition, abnormal neutrophil function, prolonged use of anti-inflammatory medications

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Granuloma

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Body walls off and isolates infection to protect against tissue damage
Epitheliod cell formation

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Chronic inflammation is associated with

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Tissue destruction
Replacement of damaged tissue with fibrous tissue via angiogenesis

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Alzheimer disease

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Beta-amyloid peptide plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain

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Asthma

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Chronic airway inflammation, dysfunction of the airways, tissue remodeling

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Atherosclerosis

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Believed to be chronic inflammatory response of leukocytes to low-density lipoproteins particles in arterial walls

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What does atherosclerosis involve

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  1. Involve both innate and acquired immunity systems
  2. Leukocytes involved mostly monocytes and macrophages
  3. Begins in childhood
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T2D mechanisms that contribute

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Excess levels of glucose and free fatty acids from overnutrition
Adipose tissue growth exceeding vascular supply

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Inflammaging

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Chronic, low grade inflammation associated with aging

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Potential causes of inflammaging

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Damaged cells that accumulate with age
Gut’s inability to adequately respond to harmful substances produced by microbiota

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Obesity

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Adipose tissue secretes hormones, cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, complementary proteins
Adipose tissue implicated in development and progression of many chronic inflammatory disorders

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Three phases of wound healing

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Hemostasis, inflammatory phase, proliferative/reconstruction phase, remodeling/maturation

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Factors that affect wound healing

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Nutrition, circulation, age

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Hypovolemia (dysfunctional wound healing)

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Can’t deliver WBCs to injury site

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Hemorrhage (dysfunctional wound healing)

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Large clots and increased exudate are mechanical barriers to O2 diffusion, slows repair

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Fibrous Adhesion

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If fibrin not reabsorbed, it forms adhesions and binds organs together

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Hypoproteinemia

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Impairs fibroblast proliferation

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Anti-inflammatory steroids

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Block macrophages from getting to injury and releasing cytokines

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Dehiscence

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Wound pulls apart at the suture line

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Impaired (excessive) contraction

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Contracture: occurs with burns, decreases ROM

BIO 325 - Pathophysiology (8 decks)

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