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Cell Injury And Cell Death Flashcards

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Agents cells can be hurt by

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Hypoxia
Physical agents
Chemical agents
Micro organisms 
Immune mechanisms
Dietary insuffiency and deficiencies and dietary excess
Genetic abnormalities
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Types of hypoxia

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Hypoxaemic
Anaemic
Ischaemia
Histiocytic

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Types of physical agents that damage cells

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Direct trauma
Extremes of temperature
Sudden changes in atmospheric pressure

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E.g. of chemical agents that can damage cells

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Glucose/ salt in hypertonic solutions
High conch of oxygen
Poisons
Insecticides
Herbicides
Asbestos
Alcohol 
Illicit drugs
Therapeutic drugs
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What components of a cell are the principle targets of cell injury?

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Cell membranes
Nucleus
Proteins
Mitochondria

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What are free radicals?

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Reactive oxygen species. They have a single unpaired electron in the outer shell- unstable configuration so react with other molecules to form other free radicals

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What do free radicals do?

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Attack lipids in cell membranes and cause lipid peroxidation
Damage proteins, carbs and nucleus acids
They are mutagenic

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Examples of free radicals

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Hydroxyl
Superoxide
Hydrogen peroxide

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9
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Enzymes used to break down free radicals

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SOD
Catalase
Peroxidases

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10
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What do free radical scavengers do?

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Neutralise free radicals

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Examples of free radical scavengers

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Vitamins A, C and E and glutathione

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What does transferrin do?

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Sequester iron

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What does ceruloplasmin do?

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Sequester copper

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What catalysed the formation of free radicals?

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Transition metals

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Examples of heat shock proteins

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Unfoldases
Stress proteins
Chaperoning

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16
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How is the heat shock response triggered?

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Any form of injury

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Reversible changes of cell injury

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Swelling, cytoplasmic blebs, chromatin clumps, ribosomes separate from the RER

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Irreversible changes of cell injury

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Increased swelling
Pyknosis, karyolysis, karyohexis
Swelling and rupture of lysosomes 
Membrane defects
Appearance of myelin figures 
Amorphous densities in swollen mitochondria
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Oncosis definition

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Cell death with swelling, changes that occur prior to death by hypoxia and other agents

20
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Apoptosis definition

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Cell death with shrinkage induced by a regulated intracellular program where the cell activates enzymes that degrade its own nuclear DNA and proteins

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