Chapter 2: Cell Injury Flashcards
What are the factors that affect cell injury?
5 points
Injured tissue type Duration Severity Adaptability Genetic Makeup
What are the 2 examples that adapt to Hypoxia?
Brain tissue
Skeletal muscles
Describe the Brain tissue in response to Hypoxia
Very sensitive
For how long can the Brain tissue adapt to Hypoxia?
2-5 min
For how long can the Skeletal muscles adapt to Hypoxia?
2-6 hours
What are the causes of cell injury?
8 points
Oxygen:
Deprivation
Free radicals
Physical agents Radiation Trauma Infectious Organisms Immunologic Reactions Genetic Derangements Nutritional Imbalances
What are the 2 forms of Oxygen Deprivation?
Hypoxia
Ischemia
What are the 2 types of Physical agents?
Heat
Cold
Describe these 2 Physical agents
Excess
What are the 2 forms of Nutritional Imbalances?
Starvation
Obesity
What is the most important cause of cell injury?
Oxygen deprivation
Define Adaptation
Cell modification
What are the 2 cell factors which are modified in Adaptation?
Morphology
Function
What gave rise to cell Adaptation?
Stress
Describe Adaptation
Reversible
What is a function of Adaptation?
Preserve
What does Adaptation preserves?
Cell viability
What are the 4 types of Adaptations?
Atrophy
Hypertrophy
Hyperplasia
Metaplasia
What are affected in Atrophy?
2 points
Tissue
Or
Organ
What are affected in these tissues or organs?
2 points
Size
Weight
How are the size and weight affected in these tissues or organs?
Decrease
What cause a decrease in size and weight of tissues or organs in Atrophy?
Parenchymal cells
What exactly in the Parenchymal cells causes a decrease in size and weight of tissues or organs in Atrophy?
Component
What are the 3 affected components of the Parenchymal cells that cause this decrease?
Number
Size
Number & Size
How are these 3 components of Parenchymal cells affected?
Decrease
What are the 2 types of Atrophy?
Physiological
Pathological
What are the 2 types of Physiological and Pathological Atrophy?
General
Local
What is an example of General Physiological Atrophy?
Senility
Where does Local Physiological Atrophy occur in? (3 points)
New Born
Adult
Menopause
Where does Local Physiological Atrophy occur in New Born? (2 points)
Umbilical vessels
Adrenal cortex
Which New Born condition is Local Physiological Atrophy found in?
Ductus Arteriosus
Where does Local Physiological Atrophy occur in Adult?
Thymus
When does Local Physiological Atrophy is found in the Thymus of an adult?
At puberty
Where does Local Physiological Atrophy occur in Menopause?
Female genital tract
What is are the examples of General Pathological Atrophy? (4 points)
Starvation
TB
Cancer
Hormonal
Which hormones does Hormonal Pathological Atrophy occur in?
Pituitary Tropic
How are these Pituitary hormones affected in Hormonal Pathological Atrophy?
Decreased
What are the examples of Local Pathological Atrophy?
7 points
Disuse Pressure Neurogenic Immunologic Ischemic Thermal Hormonal
What is an example in which Disuse Pathological Atrophy occurs in?
Limb put in Plaster cast
What undergoes Atrophy when the limb is put in Plaster cast?
Limb muscles
What is an example in which Neurogenic Pathological Atrophy occurs in?
Poliomyelitis
What undergoes Atrophy in Poliomyelitis?
Muscle
What are the 2 types of Pressure Pathological Atrophy?
Exogenous
Endogenous
What is an example in which Exogenous Pressure Pathological Atrophy occurs in?
Aortic Aneurysm
What undergoes Atrophy in Aortic Aneurysm?
Vertebrae
What is an example in which Endogenous Pressure Pathological Atrophy occurs in?
Hydatid cyst
What undergoes Atrophy in Hydatid cyst?
Liver cells
What is an example in which Thermal Pathological Atrophy occurs in?
Undescended Testicles
Describe the Atrophy in this example of Thermal Pathological Atrophy?
Testicular
What is an example in which Immunologic Pathological Atrophy occurs in?
Autoimmune atrophic Gastritis
Describe the Atrophy in Hormonal Pathological Atrophy
Adrenal
What causes this Adrenal Atrophy?
ACTH absence
What is affected in Hypertrophy?
Organ
What are affected in these organs?
2 points
Size
Weight
How are the size and weight affected in these organs?
Increase
What cause an increase in size and weight of organ in Hypertrophy?
Its cells
What exactly in the organ cells causes an increase in size and weight of organs in Hypertrophy?
Component
What is affected in the component of the organ cells that causes this increase?
Size
What is Hypertrophy related to?
Muscles
What are the 3 types of Hypertrophy?
Physiological
Pathological
Compensatory
What are the reasons of the occurrence of Physiological Hypertrophy? (2 points)
Demands
Hormonal
Describe these demands (2 points)
Excess
Functional
What is an example in which Hormonal Physiological Hypertrophy occurs in?
Smooth muscles
Where are the smooth muscles in which the the Hormonal Physiological Hypertrophy occurs in?
Uterus
What are the 2 types of Pathological Hypertrophy?
Hormonal
Adaptive
Describe this uterus
Pregnant
What are the examples in which Hormonal Pathological Hypertrophy occur in?
(2 points)
Acromegaly
Gigantism
Where does the Adaptive Pathological Hypertrophy occur in?
Muscular hollow organs
Why does the Adaptive Pathological Hypertrophy occur in Muscular hollow organs?
To overcome distal obstruction
What are the examples in which the Pathological Adaptive Hypertrophy occur in? (2 points)
Heart
Smooth muscles
Where does the Pathological Adaptive Hypertrophy occur in the heart?
Ventricles
What is an example in which the Pathological Adaptive Hypertrophy occur in the left ventricle of the heart?
Pulmonary Hypertension
What are the examples in which the Pathological Adaptive Hypertrophy occur in the right ventricle of the heart? (2 points)
Aortic valve lesions
Systemic Hypertension
What are examples of organs in which their smooth muscles undergo Pathological Adaptive Hypertrophy?
(2 points)
Oesophagus
Stomach
What is an example in which the Pathological Adaptive Hypertrophy occurs in, in the smooth muscles of the Oesophagus?
Cardiac achalasia
What is an example in which the Pathological Adaptive Hypertrophy occurs in, in the smooth muscles of the Stomach?
Pyloric stenosis
When can Compensatory Hypertrophy occur in?
After Nephrectomy
Which patient can Compensatory Hypertrophy occur in after Nephrectomy?
Young
Where can Compensatory Hypertrophy occur on after Nephrectomy of young patients?
One side
What are affected in Hyperplasia?
2 points
Tissue
Or
Organ
What are affected in these tissues or organs?
2 points
Size
Weight
How are the size and weight affected in these tissues or organs?
Increase
What cause an increase in size and weight of tissues or organs in Hyperplasia?
Specialized cells
What is affected in the Specialized cells that causes this increase?
Number
How is the number of these Specialized cells affected?
Increase
What does the Hyperplasia respond to?
Stimulus
Describe this stimulus
Particular
Where does Hyperplasia occur in?
2 points
Tissues
Or
Organs
What are these tissues or organs ,where Hyperplasia occur in, composed of?
Dividing cells
What are the 2 types of dividing cells?
Labile
Stable
When do these cells divide in?
Postnatal life
What are the 2 types of Hyperplasia?
Physiological
Pathological
What is an example in which Physiological Hyperplasia occur in?
Female Glandular Hyperplasia
What are the 2 Female Glandular Hyperplasia?
Breast
Thyroid
When does Female Breast and Thyroid Glandular Hyperplasia occur?
At Puberty
During lactation
When does Female Breast Glandular Hyperplasia also occur at?
Pregnancy
What are the 3 types of Pathological Hyperplasia?
Compensatory
Hormonal
Irritative
What are the examples where Compensatory Pathological Hyperplasia occur in? (4 points)
Liver cells
Thyroid Epithelial cells
Kidney’s nephrons
Bone Marrow
When does the Compensatory Pathological Hyperplasia occur in Liver cells and Thyroid Epithelial cells?
After their:
Destruction
Or
Removal
Describe the destruction or removal of these Liver cells and Thyroid Epithelial cells?
Partial
When does the Compensatory Pathological Hyperplasia occur in the nephrons of the kidney?
After Nephrectomy
Which nephrons of the kidney is where the Compensatory Pathological Hyperplasia occur in?
Remaining
When does the Compensatory Pathological Hyperplasia occur in Bone marrow?
After hemorrhage
Describe the Hormonal Hyperplasia that occurs in females
Estrogen Endometrial
Describe the Hormonal Hyperplasia that occurs in males
Prostatic
What are examples of clinical significance of Hyperplasia? (3 points)
Mass
Uterine Bleeding
Neoplasia risk
Where can the mass be found in? (3 points)
Breast
Prostate
Thyroid
Describe the Hyperplasia where in which Uterine bleeding and Neoplastic risk occurs in
Endometrial
Describe the Neoplastic risk in Hyperplasia
Increased
Describe the Endometrial Hyperplasia in the Neoplastic risk
Atypical
What occurs in Metaplasia?
Substitution
What is substituted?
One adult fully differentiated cell type
What is this one adult fully differentiated cell types substituted by?
Another adult cell type
Describe the other adult cell type
Of same category
What does Metaplasia respond to?
Environmental changes
What type of cells does Metaplasia occur in?
Proliferating
When do these cells proliferate in?
Postnatal life
What are the 3 types of Metaplasia?
Epithelial
Mesothelial
Connective Tissue
What are the causes of Epithelial Metaplasia? (4 points)
Chronic irritation
Gene activation
Avitaminosis
Unknown causes
What are the 2 types of Epithelial Metaplasia?
Squamous
Glandular
What occurs in Squamous and Glandular Metaplasia?
Epithelium Transformation
Which type of Epithelium transforms in Squamous Metaplasia?
Columnar
Which type of Epithelium does Columnar Epithelium transforms into?
Stratified squamous
Where can Columnar Epithelium be found in?
3 points
Bronchi
Endocervix
Gall bladder
Where is the bronchi in which Columnar Epithelium can be found in?
Smokers
Which type of Epithelium transforms in Glandular Metaplasia?
Stratified squamous
Which type of Epithelium does Columnar Epithelium transforms into?
Intestinal
Where can Stratified Squamous Epithelium be found in?
Oesophagus
Which part of the Oesophagus is where Stratified Squamous Epithelium found in?
Lower end
What is an example in which Glandular Metaplasia occur in?
Reflux esophagitis
What is an example in which Connective tissue Metaplasia occur in?
Myositis ossificans
What occurs in this example of Connective tissue Metaplasia?
Fibrosis Transformation
What does this Fibrosis transform into?
Bone
Where does the Fibrosis changes to bone?
Muscle
Which muscle is where Fibrosis changes to bone?
Traumatized
What is the action of this Fibrosis in the traumatized muscle?
Replacement