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Cellular injury:

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  • Can be reversible or irreversible
  • The degenerative changes are a continuum and the point at which injury transitions from reversible to irreversible is not always clear-cut
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Irreversible cellular injury results in?

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Cell death

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In general, the effect upon a cell depends upon?

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  1. dose of the injurious agent acting upon the cell
  2. duration for which it acts
  3. the vascular flow - nutrient supply to tissues
  4. type of cell injured: highly active cells such as hepatocytes, proximal convoluted tubular epithelium of the kidney and cardiac myocytes are most prone to injury
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Cellular changes characteristic of irreversible cellular degeneration include:

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  1. Plasma membrane damage
  2. Calcium entry into the cell
  3. Mitochondrial swelling and vacuolation
  4. Lysosomal swelling
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Hydropic degeneration:

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Acute cellular swelling:
- the cells may swell up like a balloon prior to their destruction, or
- there is a discrete bleb (vacuole) of fluid within the cytoplasm

**Causes include mild hypoxia, viral infection and toxins

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Hydropic degeneration Process:

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  • Injury
  • potassium leaves the cell
  • sodium and water enter the cell causing swelling
  • vacuoles become extended /irregular shape
  • cytoplasm​ swells
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mildest, earliest detectable degenerative change?

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hydropic degeneration

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___ is the 1st stage in injury to a cell, and may me a ​momentary phenomenon passing quickly to more serious damage

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hydropic degeneration

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Which one is normal and hydropic?

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In hydropic degeneration excess fluid is transferred to ?

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the endoplasmic reticulum

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Gross & microscopic pathological
features of Hydropic degeneration:

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Gross view:
somewhat paler than normal

Microscopic view:
moderate swelling of individual cells

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Hydropic degeneration causes:

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  • some viral infections (Foot & mouth disease virus)
  • mild hypoxia
  • toxins
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Hydropic degeneration: rupture of adjacent cells leads to the formation of?

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vesicles (blisters)

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fatty change
(Lipidosis):

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accumulation/ increase of fatty substances in the ​cytoplasm of specific cells (parenchyma of
liver, kidney, heart)

**doesn’t refer to body fat stores

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The liver, kidney, and heart are all​?

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metabolically active

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causes of lipidosis:

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1) Metabolic disease
2) Dietary factors
3) Toxins
4) Hypoxia

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Fatty change (lipidosis): Liver

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  • earliest and most easily affected​ organ
  • greatly increased in size
  • tan to yellowish color
  • prone to rupture with slight pressure
  • parenchyma is dull, yellowish, and grease​y
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Fatty change (lipidosis): Kidney

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  • cortex is pale comapared to medulla
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Fatty change (lipidosis): heart

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  • flabby with streaks in the papillary muscles
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Fatty Change identification

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Fat dissolves in alcohols used in the processing of section to make slide leaving empty vaculoles. Therefore to prove fat is present neet​ to stain the ​frozen section

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Causes of fatty change (lipidosis): dietary factors

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Most extreme:
- starvation - fat stored in liver
- overeating

Less common:
- lipotrope derangement

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Causes of fatty change (lipidosis):
Metabolic diseases

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Disease-associated with deranged carbohydrate metabolism - glucose not available for uptake into the tissues

1) Diabetes mellitus:
- lack of insulin (type 1 diabetes)
- lack of reactivity to insulin (type 2 diabetes) results in cells unable to use glucose

2) Ruminant Ketosis: excess demand on glucose reserves

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ketosis in ruminants example:

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  • in sheep caused by twin lambs ( pregnancy toxemia)
  • in high-yielding dairy cows shortly after parturition shortage of energy
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causes of lipidosis: Hypoxia

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Hypoxia:
-Anemia
-Ischemia

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Any condition that reduces ___ supply to the tissues will cause fatty changes in the liver
oxygen
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hypoxia:
an inadequate supply of oxygen
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anaemi​a:
(reduced circulating red cell numbers) caused by sustained loss of erythrocytes from the vessels as in chronic hemorrhage​ or excessive destruction of erythrocytes within vessels (hamolysis)
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Ischaemia:
(reduced blood supply to tissue) and chronic venous congestion (slowing of blood flow through the vasculature) do to fa ​ailing heart
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Causes of fatty change (lipidosis): dietary factors
Most extreme: - starvation - fat stored in liver - overeating Less common: - lipotrope derangement
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causes of fatty change: toxins
- bacterial​ and fungal toxins: - chemical toxins: (phosphorus, lead) - some plant poisonings: ( fatty change in early stages of poisoning​
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where are bacterial and fungal toxins produced?
either in the ​bloodstream from circulating bacteria ( sepsis) or elsewhere and absorbed into the blood
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Fatty change affecting the liver may be ?
- Diffuse: (ex. metabolic disease) - zonal (ex: circulatory disease)
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Zonal fatty change in cogestive ​heart failure leads to what color liver?
nutmeg color liver
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Mucoid degeneration:
degeneration of connective tissue involving deposition of mucinous material in the ​extracellular matrix
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Mucoud degeneration: most important example
valvulr endocardiosis, where degeneration affects heart valves and results ib origressive heart failure * common in King charles cavalier
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mucoid degeneration: causes blood to bleed where?
causes blood to bleed backward​ due nodular swelling
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Mucous metaplasia of epithelial cells:
- an adaptive change rather than degenerative, involving goblet cells of wet mucous membranes and glands increasing in number
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increased mucus production results in:
- increased lubrication - soothes inflamed surfaces - traps and dilutes harmful agents - carries antibodies​ against infectious agents -enables removal of particulates
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Hyline degeneration
- 'glassy' appearance applied to several types of generation or infiltration​ involving protein -
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Hyline degeeration: Microscopic
structurless and stains pinkish red with eosin in H&E
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hyaline​ degeneration of skeletal muscle fibers refers to the
the ​homogenous and pale appearance​ of the cell cytoplasm
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Hyline casts are found where?
in the ​urine of animals with renal failure and proteinuria
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Fibrinoid degeneration
- fibrin-like red smudging - focal death of vessel wall cells - consists partly of degenerated muscles and elastic fibers and partly increased amount of protein, including fibrin, around​ the degenerated fibers
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Amyloidosis: causes
1. chronic inflammatory process elsewhere in body (most cases) 2. tumors as in plasma cell and thyroid tumors​ 3. prion disease
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How is amyloidosis characterized?
- by accumulation of protein that misfolds (forms Beta pleated sheets) and becomes highly resistant to proteolysis
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Primary AL amyloidosis:
Amyloid light chain - made up of complete immunoglobulin light chains secreted by plasma cell tumors​ - affected animals have gammopathy with abnormal protein in urine
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secondary AA amyloidosis:
amyloid associate protein - reactive systemic amyloidosis - secondary to inflammatory rxns particularly chronic infection - deposited in the renal glomeruli in dogs and cats
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renal amyloidosis gross view:
- pale cortex - glomeruli appear as white dots - will stain yellowish brown with iodine solution -subsequent treatment with dilute sulphuric acid turns them blue - purple
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Microscopic change amyloidosis:
- deposition of a pink homogeneous material in glomerulues progressively replacing the epithelium and endothelium - amount of amyloid varies between glomeruli - cuffs of the same material around tubules - stains pink with congo red and the amyloid fibrils appear an apple-green color in polarized light
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effects of renal amyloidosis:
- sustained loss of protein (mainly albumin) into urine - reduces the ​osmotic potential of blood to attract fluid back into the blood at the venous end of the capillary bed - results in oedema of the subcutis and abdominal cavity **Called Nephrotic syndrome
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Hepatic amyloidosis:
Myloid deposition in the liver causes hepatomegaly with a ​high risk of hemorrhage
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endocrine associated amyloidosis:
amyloid deposition can occur in endocrine organs (ex: islets of Langerhans​ in pancreas)
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Glycogen storage:
- association with high-level corticosteroid exposure - glycogen​ is normally present in substantial amounts in the liver and muscle where it is a readily utilisable source of energy
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Glcogen storage: gross view
moderate amounts of glycogen do no produce appreciable alteration in the gross appearance of the oragn `
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glycogen storage: microscopic view
foamy cytoplasmic vacuoles, simlar to that of fat
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Cellular inclusions 1: viral inclusion bodie
-accumulation of viral nucleic acid or protein - nuclear, cytoplasmic, or both - subcellular localization indicates type of virus
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Cellular inclusion 2: abnormal storage products
- hereditary storage disease in which there is a missing or defective cellular enzyme - build-up of intermediate metabolites in cytoplams - usually affects all tissues - CNS is particularly​ vulnerable because it can NOT regenerate

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