Growth Adaptations Flashcards
What helps to regulate the stress on an organ
homeostasis
What is the increase in size of an organ called?
Hypertrophy
What is the increase in the number of cells in an organ called?
Hyperplasia
How does hypertrophy happen
the cytoskeleton need to increase to make it bigger in size. In order to do this you need to increase protein synthesis. To increase in protein synthesis, you need this to happens through gene activation. it also involved production of organelles.
How does hyperplasia happen
It occurs through the production of new cell through stem cells
What is the example of hypertrophy and hyperplasia happening together
pregnancy
What cells can only go through hypertrophy
Permanent cells. They don’t have stem cell that allow them to go through hyperplasia
What is Atrophy
it is a decrease in stress and leads to the decrease in size. this can occur in size of the cells and the decrease in the number of cells.
How does atrophy occur in the body?
it occurs through the process called apoptosis.
What are the 2 process of decreasing the cell size
the Ubiquitin proteasome degradation and the autophagy
What is metaplasia
it is a change in the stress on organ leads to change in cell type.
How does metaplasia occur
through the reprogramming of stem cells.
What is the special characteristic of metaplasia
that it is reversible with removal of the driving stress that caused it to change.
What metaplasia can lead to
dysplasia and cancer and Vitamin A deficiency ( keratomalcia)
can apocrine metaplasia lead to cancer
No. it causes changes in the cell type in the breast but not cancer