Exam 1: Cell Injury, Death (highlights) Flashcards
Define atrophy
Decrease in cell size
Define protooncogenes
Differentiation genes
Define hypertrophy
Increase in cell size
Enlargement in existing cells, increase in organelle number
Define etiology
Cause of disease
When does cell injury occur?
When limits of adaptation dare surpassed or when adaptive responses are not available
Symptoms are ___, signs are ____
Patient feels; doc observes
Define edema
Accumulation of fluid in body tissues and cavities
In reversible injury, limitations to survival include
the nature and duration of the injury and concurrent exposure to other cell stressors
Irreversible injury
When stimulus surpasses limits of survival
Will inflammation occur postmortem (autolysis)?
No
What is normal HR?
60-100 BPM
What is normal blood sugar?
80-100 mg/dL
Define necrosis
Cell disorganization
“Structural changes that result from cell death”
Define apoptosis
Programmed cell death
Atrophic cells have _____ but are not dead
Diminished function
E.g. muscle atrophy
Define idiopathic
Unknown cause
Define hypoxic
Tissue and organ atrophy associated with diminished blood or O2 supply
What is the most common reason for hypoxia?
Tissue or organ loose O2 supply
How does pressure influence pathological atrophy?
Compress adjacent structures
How does denervation contribute to pathological atrophy
Interruption of nerve supply
How does endocrine deficiency contribute to pathological atrophy
Pituitary insufficiency or another hormone inadequacy
Hypertrophy increases the size of structures that consists of
Non-dividing (permanent) cells
Example of hypertrophy with hypertension
Increase in size of heart
Example of idiopathic atrophy?
Alzheimer’s disease
What is an enlargement due to proliferation of cell (increase in number) usually concurrently with hypertrophy
Hyperplasia
E.g. prostate cancer
What promotes cancer development?
Hyperplasia
Note: if stimulus is removed, hyperplasia disappears
Define metaplasia
Substitution of one type of “mature” cell with another “mature” cell type that may be better suited to cope with altered environment.
Barrett’s Esophagus
Columnar cell metaplasia of lower esophagus (gastroesophageal reflux)
Marrow hyperplasia and extra-medullary hematopoiesis (severe anemia) are examples of
Metaplasia
Define dysplasia
Atypical metaplasia, bad growth
What kind of growth is pre-cancerous
Dysplasia
E.g. uterine cervical cancer causes cervical dysplasia from HPV virus
In what broad category of disorders would you see increased mitosis?
Dysplasia
Commons places of dysplasia
Uterine cervix, ducts of mammary gland, skin, oral, respiratory mucosa
Define ischemia
Hypoxic injury due to decreased blood flow
“Ischemic hypoxia”
If blood was being shunted away from a tissue to a different tissue (e.g. “steal syndromes”), this would cause what kind of injury in the original tissue?
Ischemia hypoxia
Define hypoxemia
Decreased blood oxygen levels
What happens in hypoxic injury?
- Decreased synthesis and depletion of ATP (happens early on)
- Oxidative phosphorylation is compromised
- When ATP disrupted = work stops, increased membrane permeability and swelling due to increased Na2+ and water
What does a pathologically high amount of calcium activate?
- Phospholipases
- Proteases
- ATPases
- Endonucleases
Mitochondrial injury leads to
Irreversible damage and cell death
What is a “superficial” common sign early on in most forms of cell injury?
Loss of regulated membrane permeability
Which leads to ATP depletion, activation of phopholipases, direct membrane change
Function of antioxidants
To remove/degrade free radicals by spontaneous decay and/or enzyme action
A high number of enzymes is indicative of
Higher amount of damage, severe injury, death
Necrosis is a response from
exogenous stimuli
“Intrinsic” (autolysis)
Self-digestion by enzymes derived from lysosomes within injured cell
“Extrinsic” (heterolysis)
Enzymes derived from inflammatory leukocytes act on cell components
E.g. neutrophils, macrophages
Nuclear changes that look like shrinkage and increased basophilic staining
Pyknosis (condensation)
Nuclear changes that look like fragmentation and breakdown of nuclei
Karyorrhexis
Nuclear changes that look like dissolution of nucleus
Karyolysis
What type of necrosis is characterized by desaturation of cytoplasmic proteins
Coagulation
Clinical example of coagulation
Myocardial infarc
Tissue that ends up looking like “fried egg whites” is linked to what type of necrosis
Coagulation
Tissue that is lysed by enzymes is characteristically this type of necrosis
Liquefaction necrosis
A stroke is an example of what kind of necrosis?
Liquefaction necrosis
They of necrosis that has the characteristic of being pyogenic (pus forming)
Liquefaction necrosis
Pyogenic
pus forming
Type of necrosis that has the characteristic of being “cheesy” in nature
Casseous necrosis
What kind of necrosis is commonly caused by TB and leprosy infections?
Casseous necrosis
What kind of necrosis is associated with hydrolysis of lipid deposits present in adipose tissue?
Fat necrosis