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WHat is HNPCC and what causes it?
Hereditary non-polyposis cancer. Miscmatch repair
Xeroderm Pigmentosum
Excision repair faulty -> can’t repair UV cross linking of pyrimidines
Epithelial and mesenchymal markers
Epi: E-cadherin, beta catenin. Mes: Vimentin, fibronectin.
Cell loses epithelial markers, gain mesenchymal markers, and vice versa after metastasis.
How does the metastatic cell travel in the blood?
Platelet adhesion for immune escape and escape from anoikis. Called “embolism”
Factors for angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis?
VEGF for angio, PDGF for lymph
What are paraneoplastic syndroms?
Tumor tissue produces hormones or hormone-like molecules.
Hypercalceima: Parathyrodea like molecule
Hypoglycemia: Insulin like substance
Hyponatromia: ADH
What causes cancer pain?
Bradykinin, prostaglandin, ATP
What opposes angiogenesis? How does the tumor react to anti-angiogenesis treatment?
Avastin Produce other angiogenic factors Progenitor cells recruited from bone marrow Pericytes protect vessels Tumor migrates to oxygen rich tissue.
Which signature does BRCA have?
Signature 3. Treat with cisplatin.
Markers for liver cancer?
EpCAM and/or AF protein. 4 combinations: With or without each of the two.
Molecular classes of breast cancer?
Luminal A and B. Estrogen receptor positive. Treat with aromatase (prevents estrogen)
Basal like /3x negative. treat with platin
Normal breast
HER2: treat with Ab.
Li-Fraumeni syndrome?
Defect p53
Chromothripsis?
One event creating several mutations or SVs
Role of androgen receptor in SVs?
Androgen receptor creates transcriptional factories which promotes SVs
What is Familial adenomatous polyposis?
Caused by defect APC. Several polyps in colon.
What is CUP?
Cancer with Unknown Primary
Causes of cellular damage?
Loss of ATP -> defect Na/K -> swelling -> burst
Calcium influx -> activation of proteases, phospholipases, dnases. Also makes mitochondria permeable. -> apoptosis.
oxidative stress -> destroys protein, dna, phospholips.
What is phosphatidylserin a sign of?
Apoptosis. Flips to extracellular.
Mallory body?
Protein accumulation in cytoplasma
Pyroptosis?
Inflammatory cell death. Caspase 1 activated. Can be seen with salmonella.
Autophagy?
Organelles/proteins in double membrane (ER folds around it). Autophagosome fuses to lysome - autolysosome. Cancer cells use it to gain energy.
Papoptosis?
Non caspase apoptosis. No karryolysis. Swelling. Seen in ALS and huntingtons. Maybe early evolutionary apoptosis.
Proteins used for Leukocytes into inflammed tissue?
Rolling: L, E and P selektin.
Adhesion: ICAM, VCAM
Diapedesis: PECAM.
Chemotactic factors? Among others…?
C5a from complement, IL-8, bacterial debris.
Macrophage actication?
INF-gamma activates to M1. Phagocytic. ROS. Produces TNF and IL1.
M2: angiogenic.
What is LOX?
LOX crosslinks elastin and collagen -> stiffening of tissue
Factors responsible for fibroblast activation?
TGF beta crucial. Activates SMAD2/3 pathway and also MAPK pathway. Mechanic stress opens Ca2+ pores -> calcineurin.
Target TGF beta signalling. ab’s against receptor, inhibitor against SMAD3 or RTK.
Rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis?
1) Provocation (eg. smoking) causes apoptosis/necrosis and activation of PAD, which makes citrullinated protein (CCP). Can be presented on MHC II, especially by DR1 and DR4 allells. Antibodies produced against CCP.
2) PAD reaches joint with provocation? CCP made. Antibodies react to CCP -> immune complexes
3) Chronic rheumatoid arthritis. Plasma cells produce abs against immune complex. These abs are called Rheumatoid factors.
DR1 and DR4 allels of MHCII may be important for ag presentation