Cellular Adapt & accumulations II Flashcards
What are subcellular reponses to injury?
Distinctive alterations involving subcellular organelles and cytosolic proteins
What are lysosomes filled with?
Hydrolytic enzymes
What are primary lysosomes?
Small membrane-bound vesicles budding from the Golgi
Primary lysosomes form secondary ones how?
By fusing with pinocytotic or phagocytic vesicles derived from invaginated plasma membrane (phagolysosomes)
What is heterophagy?
Materials from extracellular environment taken up through endocytosis
What is autophagy?
Lysosomal digestion of cells own components
What are residual bodies formed from in cells?
indigestible material resulting from intracellular free radical lipid peroxidation
Hereditary lysosomal storage diseases result in what?
Abnormal accumulation of intermediate metabolites
What happens to the sER during increased chemical intake? What is the consequence of this?
Hypertrophy to increase p450 enzymes
This may lead to the production of more ROS
EtOH abuse leads to what mitochondrial changes in the liver?
Enlarged and abnormal shapes
What are mitochondrial myopathies?
Mitochondrial alterations (like MEERF, MELAS, Leber’s Hereditary optic neuropathy)
What comprises the cytoskeleton (3)?
Thin filaments
Microtubules
Intermediate filaments
Abnormalities in the cytoskeleton reflects what?
Defects in cell function or intracelluarl accumulation of fibrillar material
What are the thin filaments?
Actin, myosin, movement, phagocytosis
What are microfilaments used for?
Motility, phagocytosis mitotic spindles
What are intermediate filaments used for?
Intracellular scaffold maintain cellular architecture
What are cytoskeletal elements’ role in signal transduction?
Linked to cellular receptors to transduce signals
Intracellular accumulation are the result of what?
Metabolic derangements
What are the three categories of intracellular accumulations?
- Normal endogenous substance produced at normal or increased rate, but metabolism cannot remove it
- Normal or abnormal endogenous substance accumulates
- Abnormal exogenous substances is deposited
What are four mechanisms of intracellular accumulations?
- Abnormal metabolism
- Alterations in proteins folding and transport
- Deficiency of critical enzymes
- Inability to degrade phagocytosed particles
What happens in intracellular accumulations?
Normal substances are produced at normal or increased rates, but metabolism cannot keep up
What is steatosis? What is this usually caused by?
Abnormal accumulations of triglycerides within cells
DM or EtOH use
What are the causes of steatosis?
Toxins
Protein mutations
Malnutrition
EtOH
The significance of steatosis depends on what?
Cause and severity
FAs accumulate as what?
Triglycerides
FAs are usually metabolized to what? (3)
Phospholipids
Cholesterol esters
Ketones
What are xanthomas?
Macrophages accumulate cholesterol underneath the skin
What is cholesterolosis?
Gallstones
What is atherosclerosis?
Abnormal accumulation of cholesterol/esters in the tunica intima of arteries
What are foam cells? What happen if these rupture?
Macrophages that accumulate lipids.
If rupture = cholesterol clefts form
What are atheroma?
Aggregates of cholesterol macrophages
What is the MOA of atherosclerosis?
Accumulation of foam cells on vessel walls
Strawberry gallbladder is d/t what?
Cholesterolosis of gallbladder
What are the histological features of cholesterolosis?
Foam cells in gallbladder
What causes proteins to accumulate within a cell?
Misfolding