Cell Injury & Fate Flashcards

1
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What are the two types of cell injury?

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Lethal and sublethal

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What is lethal cell injury?

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Produces cell death

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3
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What is sublethal cell injury

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Reversible cell damage can progress to cell death

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4
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What is an example of direct cell injury?

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Myocardial infarction

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5
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How does a myocardial infarction occur?

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Direct cell injury due to ischaemia, causes cell death through infarction, hypertrophy insufficiently compensates increased demand
Sub-lethally damaged cells can be recovered

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6
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What are the 8 causes of cell injury?

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Oxygen deprivation, chemical agents
Infectious agents
Immunological agents
Genetic agents
Nutritional imbalance
physical agents
aging
HICGINPA
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7
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What three factors contribute to the cellular response to injurious injury?

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Severity
Duration
Type

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8
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What consequences of injurious stimuli depend upon?

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Type of cell

Status

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9
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Which intracellular mechanisms are vulnerable to injury?

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Cell membrane integrity
ATP generation
Protein synthesis
Integrity of the genetic apparatus

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10
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What is atrophy?

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Shrinkage in the cellular size, by the loss of cell substance

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What is an example of atrophy?

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Dementia
Amyloid Beta, phosphorylation of tau, dissociates from the MF and accumulates into filamentous neurofibrillary tangles, reduction in neural function, apoptosis

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What is hypertrophy?

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Enlargement of cells, consequently resulting in an increase in size of the organ
Hypertrophy response to physiological or pathological stresses

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13
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What is hyperplasia?

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An increase in the number of cells in an organ

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14
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Whatis metaplasia?

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Reversible change whereby an adult type cell is replaced by another

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15
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What lines the cervix?

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Squamous epithelium

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16
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What lines the internal endocervical canal?

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Columnar epithelium

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17
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During cervical expansion what happens to the exposed columnar epithelial cells?

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The columnar epithelium cells react to external factors (Vaginal pH) and change into squamous epithelial
These changes are reversible

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18
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What is barrets Oesophagus?

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Acid reflux induces metaplasia

Squamous lined epithelium exchanged into columnar epithelium

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19
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What is dysplasia?

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Precancerous cells which show genetic and cytological feature, not invading underlying tissue

Cells do not express malignancy, have not invaded the basal lamina

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20
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What is the clinical significance of cervical cancer screening?

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Aims to identify cells in the dysplastic stage marks patients with an increased risk of cancer

21
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What stage does alcohol-induced fatty liver begin at?

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Steatosis

22
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What does ethanol consumption do to the liver?

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Ethanol metabolism to shift the redox state of liver and inhibit beta oxidation due to sterol regulatory element binding protein I being activated
Lipogenic enzymes

23
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What does ethanol metabolites do?

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Activates element binding protein 1 (lipogenic enzymes)

Fatty deposits cause fatty liver disease

24
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What is ballooning degeneration?

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Hepatocytes increase in size

25
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What is necrosis?

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Confluent (Region of cells) associated with inflammation

26
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What is coagulative necrosis?

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Substance changes, molecular structure does not
Tissue retains the same structure
Nuclei are absent, neutrophil polymorphs present
The architecture of dead tissue is preserved

27
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What is coagulative necrosis associated with?

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Ischemia infarction

28
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What are the four types of necrosis?

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Liquefactive, caseous, fat and coagulative

29
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What is liquefactive necrosis?

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Results in a transformation of the tissue into a liquid viscous mass
Cellular death proceeds into lysosomal digestion, formation of pus filled cysts

30
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What is caseous necrosis?

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Activated cytolytic T lymphocytes kill M TB infected macrophages, resulting in collateral damage.
Host degenerates self tissue to control uninhibited multiplication of bacilli.

31
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What composition is the necrotic area?

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Granular

32
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What is fat necrosis?

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Release of lipases digests and hydrolyzes triglycerides to free fatty acids and glycerol
FFAs combine with calcium in the extracellular fluid and deposits.
Blue area is calcium

33
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What ion do FFAs combine with in the extracellular fluid?

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Calcium

34
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What is apoptosis?

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Controlled and programmed cell death

35
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What is the distinctive comparison between apoptosis and necrosis?

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Necrosis is associated with inflammation
Apoptosis concerns the death of individual cells
Active cell death requires ATP
Both physiological and pathological

36
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How is the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis triggered?

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Response to internal stimuli (biochemical stress, DNA damage)

37
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Which gene is activated that halts the cell cycle?

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P53 gene, initiates gene repair

38
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What is BCL-2?

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Consists of pro and anti apoptotic members balance determines the direction of apoptosis
Establishes molecular switch

39
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What is the extrinsic apoptotic pathway?

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Triggers apoptosis in response to external stimuli, by ligand binding at death receptors on the cell surface

40
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What family of receptors do death receptors concern with?

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Tumour necrosis factor receptor

41
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what is the execution phase in regards to apoptosis?

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Cascade activiation of caspases

42
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What is the initiator caspase?

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Caspase 8

43
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What does caspase 8 do?

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The initiator caspase cleaves pro-caspases into active executioner caspases
PRO –> EXECUTIONER

44
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What are the functions of executioner caspases?

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Cause the degradation of cellular structures (cytoskeleton and nucleus)

45
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What is pyknosis?

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Nuclear shrinkage

46
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What is karyorrhexis?

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Fragmentation

47
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What do dead cells phagocytose in?

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Phagocytosis into membrane vesicles –> apoptotic bodies

48
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Why is there no inflammation?

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Vesicles result in no cytoplasmic leakage

49
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What are the causes of apoptosis?

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Embryogenesis: Death of intermediate cells between fingers
Deletion of autoreactive T cells in the thymus
Shedding of the endometrium
Response to DNA damage that irreparable