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patho exam 1

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What is a stressor?   any factor that disturbs homeostasis, producing stress  
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What is homeostasis?   maintenance of a constant stable environment within the body  
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what is alllostasis?   Is the process of achieving stability, or homeostasis, through physiological or behavioral change  
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What did Hans Seyle look at when looking at stress?   only looked at physiological stressors  
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What are the three GAS stages of stress?   Alarm, action, exhaustion  
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what does the first stage of stress involve?   CNS-CRH (hypothalamus) response  
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what does the second stage of stress involve?   Entire neuroendocrine response (if successful recovery)  
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what does the third stage of stress involve?   Progressive breakdown of compensatory responses  
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when does a stress response occur?   when demands greater than person’s ability to cope  
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what does Endogenous mean?   inside body  
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what does Exogenous mean?   outside body, environmental  
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what are the organs involved in the HPA axis?   hypothalamus, anterior pituitary, adrenal glands  
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What are the hormones involved in the HPA axis?   Corticotropin releasing hormone (released by hypothalamus); ACTH (secreted by anterior pituitary); cortisol (secreted by adrenal gland)  
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what is the inflammatory/immune shift?   Increase in cortisol/NE/Epi causes a DECREASE in Th1 cells while at the same time an INCREASE in Th2 cells  
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what do Th1 cells do?   Promote cellular immunity to protect the body from intracellular antigens  
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what do Th2 cells do?   Produce antibodies that protect the body from extracellular antigens  
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What does Th1 secrete?   IL-2, IL-12, TNFa, INF-y  
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