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Cell Injury and Death Flashcards

1
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Cell response to injury is dependent on what four factors?

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Dose
Duration
Type of injury
Type of cell

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Cell injury results when what happens?

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Cells are stressed so severely that they are no longer able to adapt

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What types of cells are most affected by chemo?

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Epithelial cells of the intestine, or any cells that replicate continuously

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What are the three permanent cell types?

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Skeletal muscles cells
Cardiac cells
Neurons

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What are the two outcomes of irreversible injury to a cell?

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Necrosis or apoptosis

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What are the five main cellular components (processes/structures) that are damaged during cell injury?

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  1. Aerobic respiration
  2. Integrity of cell membranes
  3. Protein synthesis
  4. Cytoskeleton
  5. Genetic apparatus
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7
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What are the three components of cell that undergo damage?

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Membranes
Proteins
DNA

(MPD)

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What are the five major biochemical mechanisms of cell injury?

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  1. Ca influx into cell
  2. ROS accumulation
  3. ATP Depletio
  4. Mito damage
  5. Permeability of membrane changes

(CRAMP)

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9
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Are all free radicals bad?

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No–we need them

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Excess Ca causes what? (2)

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Activation of enzymes

Changes permeability of Mitochondria, restricting ATP production

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What are the four major enzymes that Ca influx activates?

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  1. Phospholipases
  2. Proteases
  3. Endonucleases
  4. ATPase
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12
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What are the three major sources of Ca excess?

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  1. ER stores
  2. Malfunction of Na/Ca pumps
  3. Extracellular Ca
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What is the main organelle that is affected by Ca influx?

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Mito

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How is damage to the mito by Ca influx effected?

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Breakdown of phospholipids (A2 and sphingomyelin) via enzymes activated by Ca. These lipids can be damaging

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What happens when the Mitochondrial membrane is damaged?

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Loss of H+ gradient, therefore loss of ATP

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16
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A decrease in oxygen affects the mitochondria how? (4)

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Decrease ATP generation

ROS go up and leak out

Increase in proapoptotic proteins

Decrease in anti-apoptotic proteins

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17
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What is the effect of CN?

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Inhibits the ETC, (cyt C) inhibiting ATP production

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18
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What happens when oxidative phosphorylation cannot proceed and ATP levels decrease? (3)

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Na is not able to be pumped out, causing water influx and efflux of K

Anaerobic glycolysis (lactic acid)

Detachment of ribosomes (decreased protein synthesis)

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What happens to the DNA when pH decreases?

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Chromatin clumping (DNA damage)

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20
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What happens to out membranes with age? What is the consequence of this?

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Leaky membranes, leaking ROS

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True or false: normal metabolism leads to ROS production?

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True

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22
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Why are ROS bad?

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Bind to whatever double bond that’s around

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23
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What happens when someone is put on 100% O2?

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ROS production

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24
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Reperfusion injury is caused by what?

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ROS production increases but enzymes to take care of it are not around

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25
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Why do PMNs produce ROS?

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Part of immune response

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26
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What are the four major ROS?

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O2-
OH -
ONOO -
Lipid peroxide radicals

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27
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Where do ROS affect lipid membranes? What is produced?

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The double bonds of FAs

This leads to peroxide formation, and continues

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28
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What are the vitamins that are antioxidants (4)?

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C, E, A and beta-carotene

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29
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What happens to proteins with ROS? (2)

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Side chain oxidation leads to change in structure (enzymes die)

Form disulfide bonds

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30
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Free radical interaction with thymine leads to what? What can this lead to?

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Single-stranded breaks in DNA

CA

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31
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What is the function of superoxide dismutase?

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O2 to H2O2

32
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What are the ROS enzymes that reduce free radicals? (3)

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Superoxide dismutase
Glutathione peroxidase
Catalase

33
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What are the steps of the respiratory burst of PMNs? (hint there are three enzymatic steps)

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O2 converted to superoxide by NADPH oxidase.

SOD to H2O2 packed in granules for release

Myeloperoxidase also packs HOCl and Oh radical

34
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What is chronic granulomatous disease?

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The NADPH oxidase is malfunctioning

Pts die of infection early d/t granuloma infection

35
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Damage to membrane permeability causes what three damaging process?

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Release and activation of phospholipases

Decreased phospholipid re-acylation

Cytoskeleton damage via protease activation

36
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What happens in reversible cell injury (4)?

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Swelling of ER and mito,

Membrane blebs produced

Detachment of ribosomes from ER

Chromatin clumping

37
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What happens in irreversible cell injury (6)?

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  1. Lysosome rupturing
  2. Nuclear condensation
  3. Myelin figures produced
  4. Ribosome loss d/t swollen ER
  5. Holes in the membrane
  6. Swollen mito
38
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What happens to renal tubules with reversible damage?

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Raggedness, but nuclei are still intact

39
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What happens to renal tubules with IRReversible damage?

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Nucleus breaks and dissolved

40
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Are renal tubule cells able to reproduce?

41
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Is there a particular point when reversible to irreversible injury occurs?

42
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What are the two forms of cell death?

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Necrosis

Apoptosis

43
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True or false: apoptosis and necrosis are always pathologic

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False–apoptosis can be physiologic, but true for necrosis

44
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What happens in necrosis that is so bad?

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Leakage of cellular contents leading to inflammation

45
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What is necrosis?

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Uncontrolled cell death that does not require signals or activation of genes

46
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What are the cytoplasmic changes with necrosis (3)?

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Eosiniphilia
Glassy appearance
Vaculoation

47
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What are the three nuclear changes with necrosis?

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Pyknosis
Karyorrhexis
Karyolysis

48
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Hypoxia can be the result of what factors?

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  1. Loss of blood supply
  2. Decrease in oxygen carrying capacity of the blood
  3. Poisoning of the enzymes of the oxidative phosphorylation
49
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Chemical injury to a cell leads to what?

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to a disruption of the physical structure of the cell or to a breakdown of the biochemical processes of the cell

50
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What is kwashiorkor?

A

inadequate protein intake

51
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What is marasmus?

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inadequate calorie intake

52
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What are the six specific biochemical process seen in the process of cell necrosis? (what happens to ATP prodcution? Ca? ROS? Membrane permeability? Mitochondira? Cytoskeleton)?

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  1. ATP depletion
  2. Loss of Ca
  3. Free radicals
  4. Defective membrane permeability
  5. mito damage
  6. Cytoskeletal damage
53
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What is oxidative stress?

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The accumulation of damage caused by oxygen-derived free radicals

54
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What nucleic acid do free radicals react with to cause DNA damage?

55
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What is the function of Glutathione peroxidase?

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Converts OH- to H2O2

56
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What is the function of Superoxide dismutase?

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Converts O2 radical to H2O2

57
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What are the three areas of the cell that are affected by free radicals?

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Membrane (lipids/FA)
Proteins
DNA

58
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What are the changes seen in chronic cell injury?

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Mito changes

Cytoskeletal changes

59
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What is Pyknosis?

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Nuclear material becomes condensed

60
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What is Karyorrhexis?

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Nuclear material breaks apart

61
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What is Karolysis?

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Nuclei have totally dissolved

62
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How can aerobic respiration affected in cell injury?

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Decreased ATP synthesis leads to lower Na/Ca pump activity, causing Ca influx

63
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How can a compromise in integrity of the cell membrane lead to cell injury?

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Increase in Ca influx or ROS leakage from cells

64
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How can protein synthesis be affected in cell injury?

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Either disulfide bonds are formed where there should be none, or there may be other changes in AAs

Also, ribosomes may fall off

65
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What cause the chromatin clumping seen in cell injury?

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Lowered pH, caused by increase in glycolysis

66
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What happens to lysosomes during cell injury?

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Can leak, causing severe damage to the cell

67
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What happens to the ER in cell injury?

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Swells, possibly leading to ribosome detachment

68
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What happens to the mitochondria during cell injury? (4)

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  1. Swelling
  2. loss of phospholipids reacylation/synthesis
  3. Decreased ATP
  4. Increased ROS
69
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What happens to the cytoskeleton during cell injury?

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Broken down d/t increase protease activity from Ca influx

70
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What happen to the nucleus during cell injury?

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fibrillar and granular components of the nucleolus may segregate

Can also undergo pyknosis

71
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What are the three mechanisms of reducing ROS in a normal cell?

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Superoxide dismutase
Glutathione peroxidase
Catalase

72
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What is the reaction catalyzed by superoxide dismutase?

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O2- to hydrogen peroxide

73
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What is the reaction catalyzed by glutathione peroxidase?

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OH radical to hydrogen peroxide

74
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What is the reaction catalyzed by catalase?

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Hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen

75
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When ROS react with lipids, what do they form? What is the consequence of this?

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Peroxides, causes chain reaction

76
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What are the four major changes that a loss of ATP leads to?

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  1. Cellular organelle swelling
  2. Activated enzymes
  3. Chromatin clumping
  4. Decreased protein synthesis

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