Cell Injury & Death Flashcards
Can cell injury be either reversible or irreversible?
yes
What is the first morphologic change in reversible injury?
cellular swelling
In reversible injury, what is derived from damaged ER?
- blebs (distorted plasma membrane)
- early chromatin clumping
- cytoplasmic vacuoles
What can reversible injury be noted as?
increased turgor, pallor, and weight
What can lead to dysfunctional cell membrane transport in reversible injury?
decrease in ATP
Reversible injury results in an influx of what?
water and Na+ that appear as cell swelling
In reversible injury, decreased oxidative phosphorylation promotes what?
glycolysis
Anaerobic respiration leads to what?
lactic acid accumulation and reduced intracellular pH
What are the consequences of the glycolytic pathway?
- altered enzyme function
- decreased protein synthesis
- protein structure and folding
Reduced protein synthesis is refleted in what from the RER?
detachment of ribosomes
The time scale of injury vaties upon what?
the metabolic status of cells
In irreversible injury, why are the membranes weaker?
rupture of lysosomes and autolysis
What is the main difference between reversible and irreversible injury?
lysosomes are damaged in irreversible injury and intact in reversible
What are the 3 nuclear changes in irreversible injury?
karyolysis, pyknosis, and karyorrhexis
What is karyolysis?
progressive disruption and random digestion of nucleus fades away
What is pyknosis?
chromatin becomes densely clumped appearing hard, dark, and shrunken
What is karyorrhexis?
when pyknotic nuclei break up into smaller, dense structures
What are the clinical diagnoses of irreversible injury??
- AST & ALT
- CK & troponin from myocardial cells
- lipase and amylase from pancreas
What are the 2 major forms of cell death?
necrosis and apoptosis
What is necrosis characterized by?
- cell swelling
- protein denaturation
- organelle breakdown
When does necrosis occur?
after loss of blood/oxygen supply or exposure to noxious chemical toxin
What is apoptosis?
programmed cell death
What is apoptosis characterized by?
cell shrinkage, but intact organelles
When does the formaton of DNA fragmentation ladder occur?
during apoptosis
What type of cell injury has intrinsic and extrinsic pathways with no inflammation?
apoptosis
What are the normal physiological processes?
- embryogenesis
- hormone-dependent involution in adult organs
- hoemstasis
What are the pathological processes?
- injury
- viral diseases
- pathologic atrophy in organs after duct obstruction
- immunologic reactions
What is the process of intrinsic apoptosis?
- release of cytochrome-c initiates formation of apoptosome
- Apaf-1 binds cytochrome-c and recruits pro-caspase-9 to apoptosome
- caspase 9 is activated and cleaves other caspases -> apoptosis
What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis?
- intrinsic= damage to cell
- extrinsic= involves ligand