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Vinyl chloride:

  • Organ impacted
  • Type of cancer implicated
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  • Liver

- Angiosarcoma

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Nitrosamine (smoked foods):

  • Organ impacted
  • Type of cancer implicated
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  • Stomach

- Gastric cancer

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Asbestos:

  • Organ impacted
  • Type of cancer implicated
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  • Lung

- Bronchogenic carcinoma, mesothelioma

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Arsenic:

  • Organ impacted
  • Type of cancer implicated
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  • Skin

- Squamous cell carcinoma

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Aflatoxin B:

  • Organ impacted
  • Type of cancer implicated
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  • Liver

- Hepatocellular carcinoma

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Naphthalene (analine dyes):

  • Organ impacted
  • Type of cancer implicated
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  • Bladder

- Urothelial carcinoma

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4 hallmarks of reversible cell injury

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  1. Cellular swelling/ER swelling
    • Ribosomes can fall off
  2. Membrane blebs
  3. Myelin figures
  4. Steatosis (fatty change)
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Pattern of necrosis w/brain hypoxia/infarct?

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Liquefactive

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Organ associated w/enzymatic fat necrosis?

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Pancreas

also injury to fatty tissue like breast

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What does hematoxylin stain? What color?

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Stains acidic structures blue (e.g. DNA)

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What does eosin stain? What color?

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Stains protein pink

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What does gram stain stain? What color?

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Stains peptidoglycan of “gram-positive” bacteria purple (gram negative often counter-stained pink)

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What does PAS stain? What color?

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Stains fungi, glycogen magenta (in light pink background)

“Periodic acid-Schiff stain”

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What does GMS stain? What color?

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Stains fungi black (in bright green background)

“Grocott’s methenamine silver stain”

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What does acid fast stain? What color?

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Stains mycobacteria, actinomyces red (in blue background)

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What does immunohistochemistry stain? What color?

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Stains AB-bound brown/red (in blue background)

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What protein is critical in changing a leukocytes cellular architecture to follow a chemoattractant?

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Actin

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After NADPH oxidase, what does myeloperoxidase (MPO from lysosomes) form in the phagocytic vacuole?

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Bleach (HOCl)

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Sarcoidosis and IBD are associated w/what type of inflammation?

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Granulomatous inflammation (chronic)
- Central portion caseating/necrotizing
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Cell layers of granuloma, from inside out:

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  1. Antigen/necrosis/debris
  2. Giant cells + epithelioid histiocytes (+ DCs)
  3. CD3+/CD4+ T cells (+ NK cells, B cells)
  4. Fibroblasts (wall it off)
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What does the sed rate (ESR) measure and how?

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Measures chronic inflammation:
Ig(G) and fibrinogen coat erythrocytes, which then fall faster through a column of plasma

(phasing out cuz can’t differentiate from cancer, aging, etc.)

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2 ptns elevated w/acute inflammation?

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  • CRP

- Serum amyloid A

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3 ptns elevated w/chronic inflammation?

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  • C3
  • Fibrinogen
  • Haptoglobin
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2 ptns decreased w/chronic inflammation?

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  • Albumin

- Transferrin

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What does trichrome stain? What color?
Stains mature dense/collagen blue (in red background)
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3 characteristics that make a neoplasia?
- Up-regulated - Irreversible * Monoclonal
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What is the name of a benign lymphocyte cancer?
Does not exist (only lymphoma/leukemia)
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Intermediate filament keratin is found in what tissue type?
Epithelium
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Intermediate filament vimentin is found in what tissue type?
Mesenchyme
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Intermediate filament desmin is found in what tissue type?
Muscle
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Intermediate filament GFAP is found in what tissue type?
Neuroglia
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Intermediate filament neurofilament is found in what tissue type?
Neurons
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What nutrient is a cofactor for collagenase?
Zinc | - Deficiency causes: inadequate intake, alcoholism, chronic diarrhea, and inflammatory disease
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What nutrient is a cofactor for lysyl oxidase?
Copper
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Where does fluid from edema leak into? (choose all correct answers) 1. Cells 2. ISF 3. Body cavities
2 & 3
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What is an eg of a heritable hypercoagulable state?
Protein C deficiency
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Define hemothorax.
Accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity.
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3 origins of neoplastic parenchymal cells?
- Epithelial - Mesenchymal - Neuroectodermal
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Difference b/w lymphoma and leukemia? What is unique about these types of cancers?
- Lymphoma: malignant tumor of lymphoid tissue - Leukemia: malignant tumor of hematopoietic cells (neither can ever be benign)
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Benign squamous cell cancer name?
Squamous papilloma
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3 characteristics of nuclei of malignant neoplasm cells?
- High N/C ratio - Hyperchromatic - Prominent nucleoli
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What are tumor associated markers valuable for detecting? | Give 2 eg's
* More valuable for detecting recurrence of disease rather than primary diagnosis Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)
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Define “paraneoplastic syndrome”
Symptom complexes that cannot be readily explained by local or distant spread
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* What kind of gene is RAS? * What protein does it encode/how does it work? * 2 tumors associated w/RAS mutations?
- Proto-oncogene (most common in humans) - GTPase; growth factors bind receptor, P'late ras, goes to nucleus and promote cell cycle progression until ras (normally) cleaves itself w/ its GTPase. - Colon and pancreatic carcinoma
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* What kind of gene is Rb? * What protein does it encode/how does it work? * 2 tumors associated w/Rb mutations?
- TSG - Rb normally inhibits E2F, but when mutated, E2F goes to nucleus and promotes G1 -> S transition - Retinoblastoma, osteosarcoma "Governor of cell cycle"
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* What kind of gene is p53? * What protein does it encode/how does it work? * 2 tumors associated w/p53 mutations?
- TSG - p53 normally activates CDK-inhibitors, but can't when mutated, thus allowing G1 -> S transition - Most common cancers, Li Fraumeni syndrome "Guardian of the genome"
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What are the 3 cellular responses that p53 can lead to in response to stress?
1. Quiescence - temporary 2. Senescence - permanent 3. Apoptosis
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(*not talking about oncogenes or TSGs) * What are 2 anti-apoptotic genes we should know? * What are 2 pro-apoptotic genes we should know?
- Anti: Bcl-2, Bcl-XL | - Pro: BAX, BAK
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What happens if BCL-2 is activated by translocation?
- Perpetuation of “anti-apoptosis” - Follicular B-cell lymphoma. - t(14;18) translocation b/w heavy chain (14) and bcl-2 (18)
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What is a "promotor" cmpd, w/r/t carcinogenicity?
Compounds, themselves nontumorigenic, which facilitate the induction of cell proliferation (clonal proliferation)
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* What’s the only know carcinogenic RNA-virus? | * What type of cancer does it cause?
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1) | - T cell leukemia/lymphoma
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* What are 3 known carcinogenic DNA-viruses? | * What type of cancer do each of them cause?
``` Human papillomavirus (HPV) - Benign warts, cervical cancer ``` Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) - Burkitt lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma Hepatitis B and C virus - Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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* What’s the only known bacterial carcinogen? | * What type of cancer can it cause?
Helicobacter pylori | - Gastric adenocarcinoma, MALT lymphoma

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