Cell Injury, Adaptations, and Death I and II Flashcards
Name the cellular response to:
Altered physiological stimuli or nonlethal injurious stimuli ⇒
- Increased demand, increased stimulation (e.g., by growth factors, hormones) ⇒
- Decreased nutrients, decreased stimulation ⇒
- Chronic irritation (physical or chemical) ⇒
⇒ Cellular adaptations
- ⇒ Hyperplasia, hypertrophy
- ⇒ Atrophy
- ⇒ Metaplasia
Name the cellular response to:
Reduced oxygen supply, chemical injury, microbial infection ⇒
- Acute and transient ⇒
- Progressive and severe (including DNA damage) ⇒
⇒ Cell injury
- ⇒ Acute reversible injury (cellular swelling and fatty change)
- ⇒ Irreversible injury (cell death)
- Necrosis
- Apoptosis
Name the cellular response to:
**Metabolic alterations, genetic or acquired, chronic injury ⇒ **
⇒ Intracellular accumulations, calcification
Name the cellular response to:
Cumulative sub-lethal injury over long life span ⇒
⇒ Cellular aging
How are tissues grouped based on their proliferative properties?
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Labile cells
- Continuously dividing cells
- Hematopoietic cells, surface epithelia (ex.: linings of upper airways, gastrointestinal tract, skin, etc.)
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Stable tissues
- Quiescent; minimal replicative activity normally
- Proliferate in response to injury
- Parenchyma of most solid organs (liver, kidney, pancreas)
- Endothelial cells, fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells
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Permanent tissues
- Non-proliferative
- Neurons, cardiac muscle cells
Cellular Adaptations: Hypertrophy
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Increase in size of cells = increase of size of organ
- Increased amounts of proteins and organelles
- Mechanisms: trophic or mechanical triggers to cell
- Occurs in cells that have limited or no capacity to divide
- Physiological Hypertrophy
- Pathological Hypertrophy
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Physiological Hypertrophy
- Increased functional demand or hormonal stimulation
- Examples: Skeletal muscle hypertrophy in weight lifting athlete and uterus in pregnancy
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Pathological Hypertrophy
- Example: Cardiac muscle hypertrophy seen in hypertension
Generally describe left ventricular hypertrophy:
- Thick left ventricle & increased mass
- Adaptation in response to increased work load in hypertension (chronic hemodynamic overload)
- Also occurs with aortic valve stenosis
- Myofibers enlarge: synthesis of more filaments
- Clinical manifestations:
- initially no clinical signs, but eventually, heart reaches a limit beyond which enlargement of muscle mass cannot compensate for increased work & heart failure occurs.
Cellular Adaptations: Hyperplasia
Increase in cell number
- Occurs in cells capable of division
- labile and stable cells
- Physiologic Hyperplasia
- Pathologic Hyperplasia
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Physiologic Hyperplasia
- Hormonal hyperplasia of female breast at puberty and in pregnancy
- Compensatory hyperplasia of liver after partial resection
- Connective tissue response with wound healing
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Pathologic Hyperplasia
- Excessive stimulation by growth factors or hormones
- Example:
- Hormonal imbalance stimulates endometrial hyperplasia
- Skin warts and mucosal lesions associated with viral infections
- papilloma viruses
- Reversible
- Cells respond to normal regulatory mechanisms
- Clinical significance: Increases risk for cancer
Describe benign prostatic hyperplasia. What makes it different from other hyperplasias?
- Very common in men > 50 years old
- Results in formation of nodules in prostate gland in the periurethral region ⇒ varying degrees of urinary obstruction
- Underlying cause is unknown
- Mechanism: androgen-induced release of growth factors increases proliferation of stromal cells ⇒ decreases death of epithelial cells
- Differs from endometrial hyperplasia in that it is not associated with increased risk of prostate cancer
Give a clinical example of both hyperplasia and hypertrophy:
Enlargement of uterus during pregnancy (gravid)
Cellular Adaptations: Atrophy
Decrease in size of a cell due to loss of cell substance
- If severe ⇒ decreased organ size
- Decreased protein synthesis & increased degradation
- Decreased function, but not death
- Physiologic Atrophy
- Pathologic Atrophy
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Physiologic Atrophy
- Loss of hormonal stimulation
- ex: endometrium at menopause
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Pathologic Atrophy
- Decreased functional demand
- ex: broken arm in cast
- Loss of innervation
- ex: trauma to peripheral nerve
- Inadequate nutrition
- calorie or protein deficit
- Decreased functional demand
Cellular Adaptations: Metaplasia
One adult cell type is replaced by another adult cell type (that is better able to handle the stress)
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Adaptive process to chronic stress +/or persistent cell injury
- Examples: Chronic smokers, Chronic gastric acid reflux
- Cells are “reprogrammed”
- Stem cells differentiate along a new pathway
- Reversible
- May be associated with risk of cancer
Describe the two types of metaplasia:
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Epithelial metaplasia
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Ciliated columnar epithelium becomes squamous epithelium
- __ex. Trachea/bronchi of smokers
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Squamous epithelium becomes gastric/intestinal type epithelium
- ex. Distal esophagus in those with reflux
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Ciliated columnar epithelium becomes squamous epithelium
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Mesenchymal metaplasia
- Bone formation in soft tissue (muscle/connective tissue) at sites of injury
Describe squamous metaplasia of trachea & bronchi in smokers:
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Respiratory epithelium:
- ciliated columnar epithelium
⇒ squamous epithelium
- ciliated columnar epithelium
- Stimulus that causes metaplasia may predispose to development of malignant neoplasm (squamous cell carcinoma)
Describe the process of Barrett Esophagus:
Squamous epithelium (distal esophagus) ⇒ glandular epithelium (stomach)
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protects against reflux of stomach acid
- predisposes to development of glandular carcinoma (adenocarcinoma)
What happens with squamous metaplasia in the endocervix?
- columnar becomes squamous
- increases risk of HPV infection
What are the 2 types of oxygen deprivation?
hypoxia and ischemia
What is the difference between hypoxia and ischemia?
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Hypoxia
- Inadequate oxygenation of blood
- ex: lung disease, lack of oxygen in ambient air
- Reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of blood
- ex: anemia, cyanide
- Inadequate oxygenation of blood
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Ischemia
- lack of blood supply to site
- ex: coronary artery disease/heart attack, stroke
- lack of blood supply to site
Besides oxygen deprivation, what are the other etiologies of cell injury?
- Physical agents
- Trauma, temperature extremes, radiation, etc.
- Chemical agents
- Chemicals (sodium, glucose), poisons, asbestos, etc.
- Infectious agents
- Viruses, fungi, bacteria, parasites, etc.
- Immunologic reactions
- Autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivity
- Genetic derangements
- Point mutations, polymorphisms, etc.
- Nutritional imbalances
- Protein / calorie imbalance, vitamin & mineral deficiencies, etc.
- Aging: decreased ability to repair damage
What is cell injury a result of?
Continued severe stress (intrinsic and extrinsic) to a point that the cell reaches its limit and can no longer adapt
Irreverisble Cell Injury (cell death):
Causes and Types (2)
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Inability to reverse mitochondrial dysfunction
- lack of oxidative phosphorylation & ATP generation
- Disturbance of membrane function
Two Types:
- Necrosis
- Apoptosis
Cell Death: Necrosis vs. Apoptosis
- Cell size:
- Nucleus:
- Plasma Membrane:
- Cellular Contents:
- Adjacent Inflammation:
- Physiologic or Pathologic Role:
Necrosis
- Cell size: Enlarged
- Nucleus: Pyknosis, karyorrhexis, karyolysis
- Plasma Membrane: Disrupted
- Cellular Contents: Enzymatic digestion: may leak out of cell
- Adjacent Inflammation: Frequent
- Physiologic or Pathologic Role: Invariable pathologic
Apoptosis:
- Cell size: Reduced
- Nucleus: Fragmentation into nucleosome-size fragments
- Plasma Membrane: Intact: altered structure
- Cellular Contents: Intact: may be released in apoptotic bodies
- Adjacent Inflammation: No
- Physiologic or Pathologic Role: Often physiologic: elminating unwanted cells. May be pathologic
Morphology of Reversible Cell Injury
- Fatty change
- Cellular Swelling
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Fatty change
- Lipid vacuoles in cytoplasm
- Occurs with toxic and hypoxic injury
- Primarily in cells dependent on fat metabolism
- Example: fatty liver secondary to toxins (alcohol)
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Cellular Swelling
- Hydropic change or vacuolar degeneration
- Results from failure of membrane pumps to maintain homeostasis: membrane blebs
- Vacuoles appear in cells corresponding to distended endoplasmic reticulum
Describe the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of fatty liver:
- Yellow color and “greasiness” indicates steatosis (fat accumulation)
- Hepatocytes are injured resulting in an intracellular accumulation of triglycerides, liver enlargement and elevated liver enzymes
- leak from injured hepatocytes
- Clinical manifestations: depend upon specific cause & how severe the injury
- It is reversible if cause is removed.
- Mild: no effect on cell function.
- Severe: impairs cell function, may lead to cell death, eventual cirrhosis if injury continues