Cell Injury Flashcards

1
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Study of structural, biochemical, and functional changes in cells, tissues, and organs that underlie disease

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Pathology

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2
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Four Aspects of Disease Process

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  • Etiology
  • Pathogenesis
  • Morphologic Changes
  • Clinical Manifestations
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3
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Functional and Structural Alterations in EARLY Stages of MILD forms of Injury

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Reversible injury

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4
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Two features of reversible injury

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  • Generalized cell swelling
  • Fatty change
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5
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Earliest manifestation in reversible injury due to hydropic change or vacuolar degeneration

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Cell swelling

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6
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Two principal types of cell death

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  • Necrosis
  • Apoptosis
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7
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A consequence of severe injury (ischemia, physical/ chemical injury, etc.)

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Necrosis

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8
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In Necrosis, is there increased basophilia or eosinophil?

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Increased eosinophilia

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9
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Nuclear change in necrosis

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  • Karyolysis
  • Pyknosis
  • Karyorrhexis
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10
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Refers to cell shrinking

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Pyknosis

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11
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refers to cell fragmentation

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Karyorrhexis

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12
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refers to faded basophilia of cell

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karyolysis

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13
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Patterns of Tissue Necrosis

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Coagulative
Gangrenous
Liquefactive
Caseous
Fat
Fibrinoid

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14
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Architecture of dead tissue is
preserved for a span of at least
some days

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Coagulative N.

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15
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Injury denatures both structural and enzymatic proteins

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Coagulative N.

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16
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commonly used in clinical practice and usually applied to a limb (e.g. lower leg), that has lost its blood supply

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Gangrenous N.

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17
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digestion of the dead cells, resulting in transformation of the tissue into a viscous
liquid

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Liquefactive N.

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18
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Encountered most often in
foci of tuberculous infection
“Cheese-like”

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Caseous N.

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19
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Results from release of activated pancreatic lipases

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Fat N.

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20
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Fatty acids + Calcium = ?

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Fat saponification

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21
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Special form of vascular damage usually seen in immune reactions involving
blood vessels

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Fibrinoid N.

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22
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Bright pink and amorphous appearance

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Fibrinoid N.

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23
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Type of Cell Death induced by tightly regulated suicide program

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Apoptosis

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24
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Removal of supernumerary cells and Involution of hormone-dependent tissues on hormone withdrawal

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Apoptosis (Physiologic situation)

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25
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Acute inflammatory response is to ? ; Immune response is to ?

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neutrophils, lymphocytes

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26
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Apoptosis in Pathologic condition

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Dna damage, Accumulation of misfolded proteins, infections

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27
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Apoptosis morphologic changes

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Cell shrinkage, chromatin condensation, Cytoplasmic blebs and apoptotic bodies, phagocytosis of apoptotic cells

28
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Mechanism of apoptosis results from activation of?

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Caspase

29
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Phase/ mechanism of Apoptosis

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Initiation phase (activation of caspase)
Execution phase (cellular fragmentation)

30
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Other mechanisms of cell death

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  • Necroptosis
  • Pyroptosis
  • Ferroptosis
31
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  • Hybrid of necrosis and apoptosis
  • Programmed Necrosis
  • Caspase-Independent Programmed
    Cell Death
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Necroptosis

32
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Inflammasome increased over caspase, releases interleukin-1.

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Pyroptosis

33
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Triggered when excessive intracellular levels of iron or ROS overwhelm the glutathione-dependent antioxidant defenses

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Ferroptosis

34
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  • cell eats its own contents
  • delivery of cytoplasmic materials to the lysosome for degradation.
A

Autophagy

35
Q

Single unpaired electron in an outer
orbit

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Free radicals

36
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  • Increased production or decreased
    scavenging of ROS
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Oxidative stress

37
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Generation of free radicals:

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Respiration
U-v light, x-rays
Inflammation

38
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Removal of free radicals

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antioxidants
storage and transport proteins
enzymes acting as scavengers of free radicals

39
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Generated from H2O by hydrolysis

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‘OH

40
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Inactivation of ‘OH

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Conversion to H2O by glutathione peroxidase

41
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Pathologic effects of ‘OH

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Most reactive oxygen-derived free radical

42
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Adaptation of cellular growth and development

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  • Hypertrophy
  • Hyperplasia
  • Metaplasia
  • Atrophy
43
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Increase in cell size

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Hypertrophy

44
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Mechanisms of hypertrophy

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Mechanical sensor
Signaling pathways
Growth factor
Transcription factor

45
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Increase in number of cells

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Hyperplasia

46
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Decreased workload of an organ or tissue causes?

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Atrophy

47
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Inadequate Nutrition (Cachexia) results to?

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Atrophy

48
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Mechanisms of Atrophy

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  • Decreased protein synthesis
  • Increased protein degradation
49
Q

REVERSIBLE Change from one differentiated cell type (epithelial or mesenchymal) to another

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Metaplasia

50
Q

Barrett esophagus metaplasia

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Squamous to Columnar

51
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2 types of metaplasia

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Epithelial and Mesenchymal

52
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Mechanisms of metaplasia

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  • Reprogramming of local tissue stem cells
  • Colonization by differentiated cell populations from adjacent sites
  • Stimulated by signals
53
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in metaplasia mechanism, the signals are stimulated by?

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Cytokines
Growth factors
Extracellular Matrix

54
Q

Lipids may develop these kind of pathology:

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  • Atherosclerosis
  • Xanthomas
  • Cholesterolosis
  • Niemann-Pick disease (type C)
55
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Rounded, eosinophilic droplets, vacuoles, or aggregates in the cytoplasm

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Proteins

56
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Causes of Protein accumulation

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  • Reabsorption droplets in Proximal Renal Tubules
  • Excessive secretion of NORMAL Protein (Russell bodies)
  • Defective Intracellular Transport and Secretion of Proteins
  • Accumulation of cytoskeletal proteins
  • Aggregation of abnormal proteins
57
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Hyaline Change: Observed in Intracellular hyaline

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  • Russell Bodies
  • Alcoholic Hyaline
  • Reabsorption Droplets
58
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Hyaline Change: Observed in extracellular hyaline

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  • Collagenous fibers in Old Scars
  • Arteriolar wall in Kidneys with Hypertension and DM
59
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Glycogen in cells are due to

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  • Excessive intracellular deposits
  • Abnormalities in either glucose or glycogen metabolism
60
Q

In morphology, these are Colored substances, Endogenous or exogenous

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Pigments

61
Q

examples of exogenous pigments and how it is viewed under microscope

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  • Carbon or coal dust (most common)
    (lungs - anthracosis)
    (Skin - tattooing)
  • No inflammatory response
62
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examples of endogenous pigments

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  • lipofuscin (lipochrome or wear and tear pigment)
63
Q

Only endogenous brown-black pigment

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Melanin

64
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Other black pigment

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Homogentisic acid (alkaptonuria)

65
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Hemoglobin-derived, golden yellow to brown in color

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hemosiderin

66
Q

Abnormal tissue deposition of calcium salts

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Pathologic calcification

67
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