White Blood Cells
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Which of the following is a possible cause of lymphocytosis in young animals and recent vaccination?

  • Catecholamine mediated splenic contraction
  • Hypoadrenocorticism
  • Lymphoproliferative disorder (correct)
  • Chronic inflammation
  • What is a possible cause of lymphopenia?

  • Lymphoproliferative disorder
  • Catecholamine mediated splenic contraction
  • Chronic inflammation
  • Hypoadrenocorticism (correct)
  • Which of the following is a possible cause of monocytosis in inflammation?

  • Steroid/stress
  • Bacterial infection (correct)
  • Eosinophilia
  • Monocytic/myelomonocytic leukaemia
  • What is a possible cause of eosinophilia?

    <p>Parasitism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is true about basophils?

    <p>They have dense blue granules within the cytoplasm</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a possible cause of monocytopenia?

    <p>Monocytic/myelomonocytic leukaemia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a possible cause of mature neutrophilia in steroid/stress?

    <p>Mature neutrophilia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can be present in moderate numbers in regenerative anemias, lead toxicity, EMH and splenic contraction, and damaged marrow?

    <p>Nucleated red cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following factors can produce a shift from the marginal to the circulating pool of white blood cells?

    <p>Epinephrine</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a cause of neutrophilia?

    <p>Infections</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which step is involved in the process of white blood cells leaving the blood vessels?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a cause of neutrophilia?

    <p>Lymphopenia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a cause of neutropenia?

    <p>Epinephrine</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a cause of lymphopenia?

    <p>Steroid therapy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a cause of lymphopenia?

    <p>Neutrophilia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a cause of monocytosis?

    <p>Necrotic Inflammation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a cause of monocytosis?

    <p>Neutropenia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a characteristic of regenerative neutrophils?

    <p>Increased release of marrow storage pool cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a characteristic of degenerative neutrophils?

    <p>Increased immature over segmented neutrophils</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main effect of glucocorticoids on neutrophils?

    <p>Demargination of neutrophils and decrease movement out of blood</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the condition where neutrophils are held in the blood stream longer than they are meant to be?

    <p>Right shift</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a characteristic of neutrophil toxic change?

    <p>Foamy cytoplasm and diffuse cytoplasmic basophilia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the presence of finely granular nuclear chromatin in neutrophils?

    <p>Toxic change</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a characteristic of neutrophil inclusions?

    <p>Bacterial, viral, protozoa, hereditary/metabolic</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the absence of neutrophils in the blood?

    <p>Neutropenia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a possible cause of neutropenia?

    <p>Inflammation, decreased production, neoplasia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three main steps for cells leaving the blood vessels?

    <p>Marginalisation, Adhesion, Migration</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What factors can produce a shift from the marginal to the circulating pool of white blood cells?

    <p>Epinephrine, Glucocorticoids, Infection, Stress</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some possible causes of neutrophilia?

    <p>Inflammation, Infections, Immune mediated anaemia, Necrosis, Steroid therapy, Hyperadrenocorticism, Epinephrine, Fight or flight response, Chronic neutrophil leukaemia, Paraneoplastic</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the possible causes of lymphocytosis in young animals and recent vaccination?

    <p>Physiological (Catecholamine mediated splenic contraction), Chronic inflammation, Lymphoproliferative disorder (FeLV, BLV)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the possible causes of monocytosis in inflammation?

    <p>Chronic inflammation (bacterial, fungal, or protozoal), Necrosis (haemolysis, haemorrhage, neoplasia, infarction, trauma), Steroid/stress (stress, glucocorticoids), Monocytic/myelomonocytic leukemia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the possible causes of eosinophilia?

    <p>Hypersensitivity, Parasitism, Hypoadrenocorticism, Paraneoplastic (especially mast cell but also others), Idiopathic eosinophilic syndromes, Eosinophilic leukemia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the possible causes of neutrophilia in steroid/stress?

    <p>Excitement and stress can cause mature neutrophilia (2x in dogs, horses, and cows, &gt;2x in cats)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the possible causes of neutropenia?

    <p>Infections (parvovirus, FeLV, Toxoplasma), toxicity (chemotherapy, estrogen, chloramphenicol), neoplasia (leukemia, myelodysplastic, metastatic), marrow necrosis, myelofibrosis, rare conditions (immune-mediated neutropenia, Chediak-Higashi, acyclic hematopoiesis in grey collies, canine hereditary neutropenia)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the possible causes of neutrophilia?

    <p>Inflammation (pre-acute/overwhelming bacterial infections, canine and feline parvovirus), steroids/stress, exercise/excitement, necrosis, hemorrhage, corticosteroids, epinephrine, G-CSF, myeloproliferative disorders, Cushing's disease, hyperadrenocorticism, leukemoid reaction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the possible causes of lymphopenia?

    <p>Inflammation, stress, corticosteroids, Cushing's disease, leukemias, lymphomas, viral infections (FIV, FeLV, parvovirus), immunodeficiency diseases</p> Signup and view all the answers

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