Patho: Inflammation, Immunity, Infection questions with answers

Patho: Inflammation, Immunity, Infection
questions with answers
Identify innate immunity versus adaptive immunity. ✅✅

Differentiate between first and second line defense mechanisms. ✅✅

Describe the composition, function, and purpose of physical barriers. ✅✅

Describe the composition, function, and purpose of mechanical barriers. ✅✅

Describe the composition, function, and purpose of biochemical barriers. ✅✅

Discuss the importance of normal flora in relation to opportunistic infections. ✅✅

Describe the process of inflammation. Describe the inflammatory process including
vascular changes, interactions of plasma protein systems, and biochemical and cellular
mediators of inflammation. ✅✅

Identify the three plasma protein systems that mediate the inflammation response.
✅✅complement, clotting and kinin systems

Discuss each of the cell types (neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, eosinophils,
natural killer cells and platelets) involved in the inflammatory response, and explain their
individual roles and relative importance to the process. ✅✅

Name the 5 types of cells involved in the inflammatory response. ✅✅

What role do neutrophils play in the inflammatory response? ✅✅

What role do monocytes play in the inflammatory response? ✅✅

What role do macrophages play in the inflammatory response? ✅✅

What role do eosinophils play in the inflammatory response? ✅✅

What role do natural killer cells play in the inflammatory response? ✅✅

What role do platelets play in the inflammatory response? ✅✅

Discuss how phagocytosis can actually promote the inflammatory process. ✅✅