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Nucleolus function

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Makes rRNA

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Na/K ATPase Pump

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Purpose is to maintain high K inside and high Na outside
Requires ATP (from the mitochondria) for energy
Water follows sodium
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Definition of ischemia, hypoxia, and anoxia

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Ischemia: low blood supply
Hypoxia: low oxygen
Anoxia: no oxygen

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Reversible cell injury

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Happens if blood supply (oxygen and glucose) are restored and the cell returns to its original state
You get cell swelling originally

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Irreversible cell injury

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Happens if blood supply (oxygen and glucose) are restored and the cell does not return to its original state
Cell lyses and releases its contents
Nucleus lyses
Cell cannot recover = cell death

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Cardiac troponin

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Regulatory protein
You can test for it to determine if someone has had a heart attack
it is released if there is irreversible cell injury

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What 3 compounds are released if a liver cell undergoes irreversible cell injury?

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AST (aspartate aminotransferase)
ALT (alanine aminotransferase)
LDH (lactate dehydrogenase)

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Infarction

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Necrosis of a region of tissue caused by blood supply to that region

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6 causes of cell injury (both reversible and irreversible)

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  1. Ischemia (hypoxia/anoxia)
  2. Toxins
  3. Microbes
  4. Mediators of inflammation and immune reactions
  5. Genetic
  6. Metabolic disorders
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How does cyanide work?

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It blocks cytochrome C oxidase, which is one of the mitochondrial enzymes involved in production of ATP
Binds irreversibly
Irreversible cell death
Also blocks other enzymes

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4 types of microbes that cause cell death

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  1. Bacteria (ex: staphlyococcus aureus)
  2. Viruses (ex: RSV, HIV, Hep B)
  3. Fungus (ex: Candida)
  4. Parasites (ex: Giardia)
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Exotoxin

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Protein produced by bacteria that causes a toxic reaction

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Staphylococcus aureus food poisoning

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It contaminates food and replicated in the food, where it produces an exotoxin
The exotoxin is then ingested with the contaminated food
It crosses enterocytes and acts on T cells to cause violent inflammatory reactions (diarrhea and vomiting)

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2 things Staph aureus causes

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  1. Food poisoning

2. Impetigo

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Directly cytopathic

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The virus alone is killing the cell

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Indirectly cytopathic

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The damage is being caused by the host inflammatory cells in response to the infection

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Cytopathic definition

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Producing damage to the cell

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Example of a directly and indirectly cytopathic virus

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Directly: RSV
Indirectly: Hepatitis B

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RSV infecting pneumocyte steps

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Acquired by breathing in droplets containing virus from coughs/sneezes (effects infants)
RSV virus dumps viral RNA into cytoplasm and hijacks cell processes to make more viruses - also causes nuclear changes we can see
More RSV viruses - infected cell becomes multinucleated

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Chronic viral Hepatitis B

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Long standing inflammation of the liver caused by Hepatitis B virus

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Chronic viral hepatitis B infection

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Acquired by exposure to blood contaminated with Hep B virus (IV drug use, etc)
Virus enters hepatocyte and dumps viral DNA into nucleus
Hep B DNA makes more virus but does not kill cell
Hep B antigen on cell surface
T cell recognizes foreign viral antigen and gives signal to kill hepatocyte
Indirectly cytopathic (T cell is killing the hepatocyte)

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HIV infection of T cells

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Acquired by exposure to bodily fluids containing the virus (sex, exposure to blood)
HIV releases RNA and reverse transcriptase into cytoplasm
That makes RNA into DNA in cytoplasm, which enters nucleus
HIV hijacks cell processes to make more HIV virus and is directly cytopathic

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Abscess definition

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An infection becomes walled off from surrounding tissues

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Reverse Transcriptase

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A viral enzyme that converts RNA into DNA

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Cytokines definition
Proteins secreted by immune cells that can act on other cells either near or far away
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Complement proteins definition
Proteins in blood that can lyse both bacteria and cells
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Tay-Sachs disease
Autosomal recessive A type of lysosomal storage disease Caused by a mutation in an enzyme called hexosaminidase A Results in accumulation of material in lysosomes
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5 types of intermediate filaments and where to find them
1. Cytokeratins (epithelial tissue) 2. Vimentin (mesenchymal tissue) 3. Desmin (muscle tissue) 4. GFAP - glial fibrillary acidic protein (glial tissue) 5. Neurofilaments (neurons)
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3 types of cytoskeletal filaments
1. Intermediate filaments (5 types) 2. Microfilaments (actin and myosin) 3. Microtubules (tubulin)
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Immunohistochemistry
A type of tissue stain that will turn certain substances brown, so that we can see them
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Suicide genes
Genes that control apoptosis | Apoptosis requires energy and activates these genes
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Physiologic definition
Normal process | Opposite = pathologic
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How does the T cell kill a chronic hepatitis B infected hepatocyte? (3 steps)
1. T cell recognizes viral antigen and activates death receptor 2. Death receptor activates apoptosis pathways in nucleus and cytoplasm 3. Apoptotic hepatocyte with nuclear and cytoplasmic fragmentation
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Graft versus host disease
When a patient receives a bone marrow transplantation for leukemia, the bone marrow transplant (graft) can recognize the patient’s tissues (host) as foreign and begin to attack them Graft versus host disease is a serious complication of bone marrow transplantation
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Bone marrow definition
The soft middle part of bone that contains the cells that form blood cells and participate in inflammation
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Graft versus host disease | 3 steps
1. Donor T cell sees foreign antigen on enterocyte and activates death receptor 2. Death receptor activates apoptosis pathways in nucleus and cytoplasm 3. Apoptotic enterocyte with fragmented nucleus and cytoplasm Happens because the match is not perfect
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Bcl-2
A cytoplasmic protein that blocks apoptosis
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Follicular lymphoma
B cells do not undergo apoptosis and you have too many B cells
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Necrosis versus apoptosis | 2 each
Necrosis: cell lysis, nuclear lysis Apoptosis: cytoplasmic fragmentation, nuclear fragmentation
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Atrophy
Decrease in size of cell/tissue/organ | Ex: brain with atrophy due to vascular disease
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Hypertrophy
Increase in size of cell/tissue/organ | Ex: hypertrophy of left ventricle in high blood pressure
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Hyperplasia
Increase in number of cells | Ex: hyperplasia of endometrium due to increased estrogen
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Metaplasia
One mature cell type turns into another mature cell type | Ex: smoking turns respiratory columnar epithelium into squamous epithelium
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Dysplasia
Abnormal proliferation, has an abnormal appearance under the microscope
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Neoplasia
Abnormal proliferation that has formed a tumor
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Hereditary hemochromatosis
Excess iron in liver due to genetic defect Transport of iron is not regulated Iron is toxic to liver
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Nonalchoholic fatty liver disease
Occurs when hepatocytes receive excess glucose, usually due to poor diet The cell will convert excess glucose into fat Excess fat is toxic to liver
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Gross definition
Macroscopic | Look at something with eyes
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Microscopic
Histologic Histopathologic Look at something with microscope
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Coagulative necrosis
Type of cell death caused by ischemia or infarction Marked inactivation of cytoplasmic hydrolytic enzymes Tissues do not lyse so they retain their form and consistency
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Liquefactive necrosis
Can be caused by ischemia Tissue is soft and liquified Also in brain can be an infarct or stroke
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Caseous necrosis
Caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis in the lung | Tissue is somewhat firm but falls apart as you handle it
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Enzymatic fat necrosis
Caused by pancreatic enzymes digesting surrounding fat Appears liquefied with calcified areas Usually caused by acute pancreatitis (also trauma) Fat degraded into glycerol and free fatty acids – free fatty acids bind calcium, forming calcium soaps – looks like liquified fat with whitish specks of calcium soap Done by lipolytic enzymes
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Consequences of diabetic glomerulosclerosis
Thickened vascular walls Increased material in glomerulus Due to hyperglycemia

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