Ch3:Tissue Renewal, Regeneration, and Repair Flashcards
Two parts of tissue renewal?
- Regeneration
2. Repair
What is regeneration?
Complete restitution of lost or damage tissue through proliferation of cells and tissues
What is the requirement for regeneration to occur?
Stem cells of tissues are not destroyed
What is repair?
Restoration of original structures but can be structurally deranged.
What does repair consist of?
Combination of regeneration and scar formation by the deposition of collagen
What is the predominant healing process that occurs when the extracellular matrix framework is damaged?
Scar formation
What is fibrosis?
Extensive deposition of collagen
Damage to the matrix (parenchymal stem cell matrix) results in what? 2
- Fibrosis
2. Scar formation
The size of cell population is determined by what? (3)
Rates of:
- Cell proliferation
- Cell differentiation
- Death by apoptosis
Cells incapable of replication are known as what?
Terminally differentiated cells
Proliferation of cells can be stimulated by what two types of conditions?
- Physiologic
2. Pathogenic
What is epithelium?
A covering
What is mucosa?
Epithelium that absorbs and is moist
What are continuously dividing tissues called?
Labile
Examples of continuously dividing cells? 3
- Epithelium/Mucosa
- Hematopoietic cells
- Mature cells derived from adult stem cells
What are quiescent tissues called?
Stable tissues
Level of replication in quiescent?
When can it speed up?
Low
In response to stimuli
Examples of quiescent cells? 3
- Parenchymal cells of liver, kidney, pancreas
- Mesenchymal cells
- Vascular endothelium
Nondividing tissues are known as what?
Permanent tissues
Examples of permanent tissue? (3)
- Neural tissue
- Skeletal muscle
- cardiac muscle
What is regenerative medicine?
Repairing damaged human tissues through stem cells
What makes stem cells so intriguing for repair? 2
- Self-renewal properties
2. Capacity to generate differentiated cell lineages.
How is the replication of stem cells described?
Obligatory asymmetric replication
What is obligatory asymmetric replication?
Each stem cell division, one of the daughter cells retains its self-renewing capacity while the other enters differentiation pathway
How is the ratio of stem cells/differentiated cells described?
Stochastic differentiation
What is stochastic differentiation?
Population if maintained by the balance between stem cells divisions that generate either two self-renewing stem cells or two cell that will differentiate
Stem cells that can generate all tissues of the body are known as what?
Pluripotent
Examples of pluripotent cells? 2
Embryonic cells
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)
Where do adult stem cells reside?
Niches
What makes up a niche?
Mesenchymal, endothelial, and other cell types
Niche cells do what?
Generate or transmit stimuli that regulate stem cell self-renewal and generationi of progeny cells
Embryonic stem cells are found where?
Inner cell mass of blastocysts in early embryonic development
Research applications of embryonic stem cells? 3
- Study specific signals and differentiation steps required for a tissue
- Production of knockout or knockin mice
- Repopulate damaged organs
Result of reprogramming differentiated cells?
Induced pluripotent stem cells
What is reproductive cloning?
Transfer of nuclear material into oocyte
How effective is therapeutic and reproductive cloning?
Why?
Inefficient
Deficiency in histone methylation results in improper gene expression
What does the pluripotency of cells in a clone depend on?
Expression of four transcription factors known as oncogenes
What are transit amplifyin cells?
Rapidly dividing cells generated from somatic stem cells
What is transdifferentiation?
Change in the differentiation of a cell from one type to another
What is special about hemopoietic stem cells?
Can differentiate into hepatocytes and neurons upon fusion with already differentiated cells of target tissue