Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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What is an Atheroma?
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Artifical thickening of arterial cell walls that excludes a thick lipid mix
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Artificial coarsening of arterial cell walls that shed bacteria into the bloodstram
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Bacterial biofilm forming over the cell wall
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What causes the Endothelial Dysfunction that begins atheroma growth?
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Cigarette smoke
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Excess LDL's
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Bacterial infection
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Autoimmune disorders
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Diabetes
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What happens to epithelial cells during Endothelial Dysfunction?
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They become lipoprotein soluble and lose cell repellant quality
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They become lipoprotein inoluble and gain cell repellant quality
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They become lipoprotein soluble and gain cell repellant quality
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VCAM- A monocyte adhesion molecule that allows them to enter the vascular wall
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Once monocytes convert to macrophages in tissue, what do they produce?
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During Lipid Deposition, lipids can easily enter the damaged endothelial walls
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What happens to LDL's once they enter the tissue
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LDLs are so easily reduced due to low tissue antioxidants
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What happens when Macrophages take up too many LDL's?
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They become dying Foam cells
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They become dying Plasma cells
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They become dying Mast cels
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As the macrophages die, the release lipid pools
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Name the two main components of the plaque?
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Foam cells
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Lipid pools
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LDLs
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Mast cells
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Plasma cells
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Vascular cells form a fibrous cap over the developing clot
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What, potentially can happen to the fibrous plaque coat?
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It calcifies and fissures at the edges
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It becomes layered with t-cells and macrophages
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Bacteria stick to it and invade tissues
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Name the effect of arterial plaques