Cell injury Flashcards
What is the study of disease in individual cells?
cytopathology
What discovered the fact that cells come from cells?
Rudolph Virchow - father of cellular path
What is the inability to adapt lead to?
cell injury or cell death
What are the causes of cell injury?
- oxygen deprivation
- physical agents/trauma
- chemical agents and drugs
- infectious agents
- immunologic reactions
- genetic derangements
- nutritional imbalances
T/F each cell responds to cell injury equally due to the same DNA
false, each cell is different
Is it very apparent grossly that cell death has occured?
No, often it is not even microscopically seen
What are the types of cellular adaptation to injury?
- atrophy
- hypertrophy
- hyperplasia
- metaplasia
- dysplasia
What is a decrease in the size and function of a cell or organ?
atrophy
What causes atrophy?
- decreased workload
- loss of innervation
- diminished blood supply
- inadequate nutrition
- loss of endocrine stimulation (breasts/testes)
- aging (senile atrophy) => usually from diminished blood supply
In the brain, describe atrophy
sulci get larger while the gyri (substance of the brain) has atrophied so spaces get larger
laterally, the size has decreased
often seen in alzeimer’s disease
What is the increase in the size of a cell caused by an augmented functional demand or specific stimulation?
hypertrophy
What 2 mechanisms of disease can hypertrophy be caused from?
- physiologic-ex: massive growth in size of uterine wall due to hormones
- pathologic- ex: increased thickness of left ventricular wall due to systemic hypertension
What is the increase in the number of cells in an organ or tissue?
hyperplasia
What 2 mechanisms of disease can hyperplasia occur?
- physiologic- ex: increased # of lactational units in breast during pregnancy/lactation
- pathologic- ex: hyperplasia endometrial lining seen as precursor to endometrial carcinoma
How can you determine if an organ is undergoing hypertrophy or hyperplasia?
Under the microscope, the cells of a hypertrophic organ will just be larger with more space bw the cells
In bengin prostatic hyperplasia, where is it likely to occur? what is the result?
occurs around the central urethra
results in frequent urine flow and increases the number of glands in the prostate
What is the state of a cell nucleus containing 3 or more haploid chromosomal sets?
polyploidy
If polyploidy of cells occur naturally in what?
megakaryocytes
When does polyploidy of cells result from cellular adaptation?
hyperplasia
hypertrophy
Polyploidy of cells in an unrestricted cell growth is termed what?
malignancy
T/F polyploidy always indicates unrestricted cell growth
false, it is occasionally
T/F platelets are a result of polyploidy
true, derived from megakaryocytes
What is the conversion of one differentiated cell type to another differentiated cell type? What types of cells can they occur in?
metaplasia
epithelial metaplasia or mesenchymal metaplasia
T/F endoderm, via metaplasia, can form ectoderm cell lines
false, there is no proven route of metaplasia across germ layers
What type of metaplasia commonly occurs as a precursor to dysplasia or neoplasia?
epithelial metaplasia
T/F mesenchymal metaplasia is rarely if ever preneoplastic
true
Effects of smoking of the pseudocolumnar ciliated respiratory epithelium may induce what?
epithelial metaplasia to squamous type
(pseudocolumnar to squamous)
The effects of certain serotypes of HPV on the cervial epithelium may induce transformation of what types of epithelium?
Where does this usually occur first?
columnar epithelium (endocervix) to squamous epithelium
epithelial metaplasia
occurs first on the basement membrane in the reserve cells