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Where does disease begin?

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within the cell; collective response of organism determines the disease

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What is a cell? What are its features?

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minimal structural/functional unit of the body, bonded by plasma membrane, autonomous

  1. Shape: spheroidal, discoid, columnar, pyramidal, spindle
  2. Polarity: apical (external) vs. basolateral (internal); directed transport, membrane specialization
  3. Size: usually microscopic, some elongated (neurons)
  4. Number: # determines size
  5. Organelles: ribosomes, ER, mitochondria, Golgi apparatus
  6. Nucleus: usually solitary; stains BLUE
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What are the 4 cell types?

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  1. Epithelial: covers all body surfaces; skin, and lining of organs; most common
  2. Muscle: contractile~shorten to generate force
  3. Nervous: excitable~change in membrane voltage (electrical impulses)
  4. Mesenchymal: cells in ECM~connective; multipotent stem cells
    –> collagen, fibrous tissue, elastin; non-living substance between cells
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What is the life cycle of a cell?

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Some cells are transitory, others last a lifetime (intestinal–>skin–>brain)
1. Embryonal stage: active division, large nuclei (embryonic cells, stem cells)
2. Maturity stage: maximal differentiation in form and function (nervous, muscle cells)
3. Regression (senescence): waning of function, degeneration
4. Death: usually apoptosis (programmed cell death)

**cell populations in tissue are controlled by the balance of stem cell output vs. differentiation, senescence, and death

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What is tissue? What are the 4 types?

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similar cells organized for common function; arise from embryonic germ layers (ectoderm~ext, mesoderm~mid, endoderm~int)

  1. Epithelial: the lining of GI tract, organs, skin; squamous, columnar, cuboidal in simple (1 layer), stratified (multiple layers), or pseudostratified (staggered)
  2. Muscle: cardiac (striated, involuntary) = heart, smooth (involuntary) = line walls of hollow viscera/ducts/blood vessels, skeletal (striated, voluntary) = “flesh” of musculoskeletal system
  3. Mesenchymal: perform connecting, binding, supporting functions; includes fat, bone, tendons, blood elements
  4. Nerve: brain, spinal cord, nerves; neurons, glia, Schwann; waves of excitation
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What is an organ? What are the two main components of an organ?

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the aggregate of tissues (2+) arranged in characteristic plan for independent function; contain fibrous framework, capsule, and independent blood supply

  1. Parenchyma: essential, characteristic, and functional cells in an organ
  2. Stroma: internal, auxiliary, supporting tissue (capsule)
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What is a system?

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the set of organs that collaborate in carrying out related/interconnected functions

11 of them: nervous, digestive, cardiovascular, genitourinary (renal), endocrine, immune, respiratory, musculoskeletal, reproductive, sensory, integumentary

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What is a network?

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synchronized interaction between systems (protein-protein, gene-regulatory, metabolism, signaling)

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What is disease? What is the difference between disease and etiology?

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an emergent property: body’s response to cascading of disruptions when adaptive response is inadequate

etiology: underlying event/injury that initiates the disease process

Injury: any perturbation that upsets (even transiently) the normal homeostasis

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What is adaptation? Adaptation vs. disease?

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a change that preserves the viability/function of a cell
ex) muscular hypertrophy

uterine bleeding is normal during menstruation, increase in BP with age, hyperbilirubinemia in newborn

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What are the cells’ responses to injury?

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Altered steady state or point of no return

Reactive changes
1. Death: several pathways (common from injury, adaptation, and development)
2. Atrophy: loss of vital capacity, shrinkage
3. Hypertrophy: increase capacity, enlarged
4. Degeneration: diminution of viability

Growth disturbance
1. Hyperplasia: increase in cell number in tissue (calluses)
2. Metaplasia: substitution of one adult type cell for another adult type cell (lungs)
3. Dysplasia: accumulation of less mature cells, incomplete differentiation
4. Neoplasia: “new growth”, loss of growth control, NOT REVERSIBLE (cancer)

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What are the two types of inflammatory responses?

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  1. innate: immediate, less specific, acute inflammation
  2. Adaptive: delayed, very specific, chronic inflammation
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Why do so many diverse kinds of injury often cause the same disease?

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The biological response repertoire is limited → Quantitative alterations (1 of the 8 reactions)

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Why was there so much variability in COVID-19 symptoms? What systems are interacting to create this disease?

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immune response and resilience of individuals varies because of genetics, prior exposures, vaccination, co-morbid conditions

excessive immune response damages tissues: cytokine storm, excessive neutrophil (clots damage lung cells)

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What are the types of cell death?

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Accidental: sudden, unexpected, acute
1. Necrosis

Regulated: physiologic reactions in an orderly matter in response to injury, signal, etc.
1. Apoptosis
2. Necroptosis
3. Ferroptosis
4. Autophagy
5. Senescence

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What is cell death?

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irreversible event characterized by the loss of ability of a cell to maintain isolation from its environment = breach or fragmentation of the plasma membrane

substances reequilibrate when a cell dies (Na, K, Ca, protein)

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What is necrosis?

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form of accidental cell death marked by cellular swelling, cell rupture, and lack of ATP-dependence

caused by non-physiological pathways: heat, trauma, toxins

direct, acute damage to the cell

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What are the three types of regulated cell death?

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  1. Necroptosis: similar to necrosis but activated through regulated pathways
  2. Ferroptosis: mediated by iron; characterized by glutathione depletion and ROS damage to cell membranes
  3. Apoptosis: cell shrinkage, chromatin condensation, membrane blebbing, formation of apoptotic bodies; activation of caspases; highly regulated; intrinsic and extrinsic pathway
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What is autolysis?

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spontaneous disintegration of tissues or cells post-mortem from proteases

20
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What is the point of no return?

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specific even/moment after which the adaptive mechanisms are exhausted + cell is destined to die

21
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What causes cells to die?

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  1. Assault: acute trauma, ischemia, toxins, poison
  2. Design: activation of death receptors
  3. Neglect: deprivation, unrepaired injury
  4. Aging: replicative senescence (signaling, accumulation of unrepaired injury)
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What is released from the cell during necrosis?

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DAMP’s: Damage Associated Molecular Patterns = proinflammatory molecules that activate innate immunity activates Toll Like Receptors (TLR)
ex) HMGB1, HSP

PAMPS: pathogen-associated molecular patterns

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What are the 4 cellular responses from necrotic injury?

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  1. Mitochondrial Damage: reduced ATP and enhanced ROS
  2. Entry of Ca2+ into the cytoplasm leading to membrane damage and inappropriate activation of lipases, proteases, nucleases, etc.
  3. Widespread membrane damage
  4. Protein misfolding and DNA damage
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What are the morphological changes during apoptosis?

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  1. loss of contact from neighboring cells and specialized surface features
  2. shrinkage, distortion
  3. conservation of organelle integrity
  4. chromatin condensation and fragmentation
  5. phagocytosis by healthy cells or macrophages
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Where is apoptosis prominent?

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  1. Nervous system: excess neurons, refinement of neural networks
  2. Embryonic development: interdigital webs
  3. Immune system: termination of inflammatory response by deletion of neutrophils
  4. Endocrine and reproductive system: cell turnover and cyclic tissues (endometrium)
  5. All epithelia
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What is the extrinsic pathway of apoptosis?

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“Death by design”
1. TNF receptor- FAS ligand interactions
2. initiator caspases or adaptor proteins with death domains
3. execution caspases: catabolism of cytoskeleton
4. endonuclease activation (DNA fragmentation)
5. Phagocytosis

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What is the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis?

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“Death by neglect” activated from DNA damage, metabolic stress, hormone withdrawal
1. withdrawal of GF or hormones
2. changes in the permeability of mitochondria: BCL closes with BH3 and Bax/Bak opens (pro-apoptotic)
3. releases Cyt C and ROS

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What is the pathway of necroptosis?

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  1. TNF binds to TNFR1
  2. RIPK1&3 inactivate caspase 8 and form necrosome
  3. activates MLKL which punch holes in the membrane after oligomerization –> then like necrosis

salvage pathway for apoptosis

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