Cellular Adaptations and Death Flashcards
What are the mechanisms that can cause atrophy
Decreased protein synthesis
Increased protein degradation
What is the most common cause for hypertrophy
Increased workload
(skeletal muscles, uterus, heart)
What causes an increase in the production of cellular proteins
mechanical stretch (more work)
Agonists (hormones, enzymes)
GFs
What causes differentiation in metaplasia
Cytokines, GF, ECM signaling alter gene expression and lead to differentiation
What are the general causes of cell injury
Hypoxia
Physical damage
Chemical damage
Infection
Immune reactions
Genetic derangement
Nutritional imbalances
What does the response to cell unjury depend on
The nature, duration, and severity of the injury
reversible injury - cell membrane
Blebbing
Distirtion
reversible injury - ER
detachment of ribosomes
reversible injury - mitochondria
amorphous densities
reversible injury - lysozomes
Autophagy
reversible injury - nuclei
chromatin clumping
reversible injury - gross appearance
Pallor
Swelling
Increased weight
organ-opathy
reversible injury - histo
Hydropic degeneration
Increased cell volume
Cytoplasm vacuolization
Peripheral nuclei
Apoptsis:
Carefully regulated cell death
What are the apoptotic pathways
Intrinsic and extrinsic
What triggers the intrinsic pathway
Loss of stimulation or GFs
What triggers the extrinsic pathway
Death receptors
What do both apoptotic pathways result in (not the end result - where the pathways merge)
Executioner caspase activation
Apoptosis - ultrastructure
Cell shrinkage
Condensation of nuclear chromatin and cytoplasm
Cytoplasmic blebs
Apoptotic bodies
Apoptosis - histo
Single cells or small clusters
Round or oval, intensely eosinophilic cytoplasm
Dense nuclear chromatin
Minimal inflammation
Can necrosis be physiologic
No
Necrosis - mechanism
Permanent mitochondrial damage
Severe disturbance in membrane function
Ca influx –> activates phospholipase A