Cell Injury Flashcards
Study of structural, biochemical, and functional changes in cells, tissues, and organs that underlie disease
Pathology
Four Aspects of Disease Process
- Etiology
- Pathogenesis
- Morphologic Changes
- Clinical Manifestations
Functional and Structural Alterations in EARLY Stages of MILD forms of Injury
Reversible injury
Two features of reversible injury
- Generalized cell swelling
- Fatty change
Earliest manifestation in reversible injury due to hydropic change or vacuolar degeneration
Cell swelling
Two principal types of cell death
- Necrosis
- Apoptosis
A consequence of severe injury (ischemia, physical/ chemical injury, etc.)
Necrosis
In Necrosis, is there increased basophilia or eosinophil?
Increased eosinophilia
Nuclear change in necrosis
- Karyolysis
- Pyknosis
- Karyorrhexis
Refers to cell shrinking
Pyknosis
refers to cell fragmentation
Karyorrhexis
refers to faded basophilia of cell
karyolysis
Patterns of Tissue Necrosis
Coagulative
Gangrenous
Liquefactive
Caseous
Fat
Fibrinoid
Architecture of dead tissue is
preserved for a span of at least
some days
Coagulative N.
Injury denatures both structural and enzymatic proteins
Coagulative N.
commonly used in clinical practice and usually applied to a limb (e.g. lower leg), that has lost its blood supply
Gangrenous N.
digestion of the dead cells, resulting in transformation of the tissue into a viscous
liquid
Liquefactive N.
Encountered most often in
foci of tuberculous infection
“Cheese-like”
Caseous N.
Results from release of activated pancreatic lipases
Fat N.
Fatty acids + Calcium = ?
Fat saponification
Special form of vascular damage usually seen in immune reactions involving
blood vessels
Fibrinoid N.
Bright pink and amorphous appearance
Fibrinoid N.
Type of Cell Death induced by tightly regulated suicide program
Apoptosis
Removal of supernumerary cells and Involution of hormone-dependent tissues on hormone withdrawal
Apoptosis (Physiologic situation)
Acute inflammatory response is to ? ; Immune response is to ?
neutrophils, lymphocytes
Apoptosis in Pathologic condition
Dna damage, Accumulation of misfolded proteins, infections