Question

1. Which of the following characteristics would best verify that a person has had chronic inflammation?

Fibrosis, Phagocytosis, PMN activation, Vasodilation

2. People with chronic asthma sometimes take medication that relieves bronchospasms. Which eicosanoid would the drug inhibit?

Leukotriene, Prostacyclin, Prostaglandin, Thromboxane

3. Ionizing radiation is a definitive risk factor for developing which of the following types of cancer?

Colon, Breast, Pancreatic, Thyroid

Answer 1

1. Fibrosis typically occurs in the chronic inflammation. Phagocytosis,PMN activation and vasodilation typically occurs in the acute inflammation.Chronic inflammation occurs for long term and cause tissue remodeling and repair.

2 The drug inhibits the eicasoinoid prostaglandin which plays an important role in the contraction of the smooth muscle cell of the bronchi.

3.breast,thyroid and the colon cancer are caused by the ionising radiation.