intro & cellular damage Flashcards
quiz 1
what is the quest for complete and thorough understanding of a disease process?
pathology
what is the observables tissue change associated with a disease ?
lesion
what is the mechanism of how a disease develops from its initiation to its morphologic manifestation?
pathogenesis
what is the process by which lesion lead to clinical signs?
pathophysiology
what are the set of symptoms or clinical signs, characteristics of medical conditions & exhibited by patient?
symptomatology
What does lesion have to correlate with to be able to understand pathogenesis?
symptomatology
what is the expected out come of conditions ?
prognosis
what is the additional diagnostic tests that are performed to reach definitive diagnosis or etiologic diagnosis?
ancillary testing
what is a lesion that is a characteristic of specific disease beyond any doubt?
pathognomonic lesion
what is based on case history ,clinical signs & physical exam findings?
clinical diagnosis
what is a list of diseases that could account for the clinical findings &/or lesions of a case ?
differential diagnosis
what is based on changes observed in biochemistry, hematology & cytology?
clinical pathologic diagnosis
what is based on predominant lesion or pattern of lesions; maybe macroscopic or microscopic ?
Morphologic diagnosis (lesion diagnosis)
what is based on the conclusive evidence that confirms the cause of a diseases; usually pertaining to infectious agents & often requires ancillary testing?
Etiologic diagnosis
what is based on conclusive evidence from clinical data & observed lesion?
Definitive diagnosis
what are the 5 components of Morphologic diagnosis ?
- severity 2. duration 3. distribution 4. location 5. nature of lesion
what are the different variation for severity in morphologic diagnosis ?
- Mild 2. moderate 3. severe
what are the different variation for duration in morphologic diagnosis?
- Peracute 2. acute 3. subacute 4. Chronic
what are the different variation for nature of lesion in Morphologic diagnosis?
- Inflammatory 2. degenerative 3. Neoplastic
what are the different variation of distribution in Morphologic diagnosis?
- focal 2. multifocal 3. coalescing 4. diffuse
what are the causes for cellular injury ?
- Hypoxia 2. oxidative stress( free radial) 3. physical agents
What are the 2 events that can result in Hypoxia ?
- reduce blood flow 2. Reduced oxygen saturation of the blood
What are some examples of diseases that will cause reduced blood flow?
- heart disease 2. shunting 3. hypovolemia 4. congestion 5. vessel obstruction 6. infaction 7. ischemia
what are some examples of diseases that will cause reduced oxygen saturation of blood?
- respiratory disease 2. anemia 3. methoglobinemia 4. erythrocyte abnormalities
What are cells are the most susceptible to hypoxic injury?
cells that have high metabolic demand
What is the first event in the sequence of events for hypoxia causing cell injury ?
decrease oxidative phosphorylation
What events follows the decrease oxidative phosphorylation in the sequence of events for hypoxia?
decrease ATP
What are the 3 effects as a result of decrease ATP?
- decrease Na/K pump 2. increase Glycolysis 3. detachments ribosomes
What will happen to Ca/H20/Na when there is a decrease in Na/K pump?
Influx of : 1. Ca 2. H20 3. Na
What will happen to K when there is a decrease in Na/K pump?
efflux
what will be the results for decrease Na/K pump?
1.cell swelling 2. loss of microbial 3. blebs 4. ER swelling 5. myelin figure
What is consequences of an increase in glycolysis ?
- decrease of pH 2. decrease glycogen
What is the end result of increase glycolysis ?
clumping of Nuclear chromatin
what are the other effects of decrease ATP due to hypoxia in the tissue?
- detachment of ribosomes 2. decrease protein synthesis 3. lipid deposition
what type of cellular damage can free radical cause ?
oxidative stress
what are the types of free radials that will cause oxidative stress?
- Superoxide anion (O2) 2. hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) 3. hydroxyl radical (OH)
what are the sources of free radical to cause oxidative stress?
- endogenous 2. exogenous
what are the endogenous sources of free radicals?
- metabolic enzymes reactions 2. metal cations 3. inflammatory disease 4. neoplastic disease
what are the exogenous sources of free radicals?
- chemicals 2. drugs 3. toxins 4. radiation 5. tissue trauma
what are the consequences of oxidative stress causing cellular injury?
- damage to lipids, proteins & DNA 2. chronic tissue damage & chronic disease 3. Organs failure
what is the defense mechanism for oxidative stress to prevent cellular damage/injury?
Antioxidants
what are the antioxidants used as defense mechanism for oxidative stress?
- superoxide dismutase 2. Catalase 3. Glutathione peroxidase 4. Vitamin E 5. Selenium
What antioxidant will catalyzes the superoxide radical into oxygen or hydrogen peroxide?
Superoxide dismutase (SOD)
what antioxidant will catalyzes the conversion of hydrogen peroxide to water & oxygen?
Catalase
what antioxidant will catalyzes the conversion of lipid hydroperoxide to their corresponding alcohols & reduce free hydrogen peroxides to water?
Glutathione peroxidase
what antioxidant helps to neutralize the effects of free radicals?
Vitamin E
what antioxidant is an essential cofactor for the enzyme glutathione peroxidase, ascorbate ,ceruloplasmin , transferrin & cysteine all help to protect membrane from oxidant injury?
Selenium
What can prevent chronic oxidative injury?
optimize cellular function
How can cellular function be optimize cellular function>
- reduce inflammation 2. reduce oxidative stress 3. balance pH 4. genetic factors 5. hydration, diet, exercise, & lifestyle choices
What are examples of acute oxidative injury?
Nutritional myopathy
what is white muscle disease that causes acute oxidative injury?
nutritional myopathy -nutritional deficiency of vitamin E &/or selenium
what are examples of physical agents that can cause cellular damage ?
- trauma 2. extreme cold 3. extreme heat 4. electricity 5. ionizing radiation 6. radiation
what physical agent will cause direct cell death & loss of blood supply ?
trauma
what physical agent causes impairs blood flow & cause ice formation?
extreme cold
what physical agent causes denature proteins & damages membrane ?
extreme heat
what physical agent generates extreme heat & alters conduction?
electricity
what physical agent causes DNA damage resulting in apoptosis , mutations, & sometimes neoplasia?
radiation
what are types of infectious agent that can cause cell injury ?
- viruses 2. bacteria 3. fungi 4. parasite 5. prions
what are types of immunologic dysfunction that cause cellular injury?
- immunopathology 2. immune mediate diseases 3. autoimmune diseases
what are types of genetic derangement that can cause cellular injury?
- cellular mutation 2. genetic predisposition 3. neoplastic diseases
what are the consequence of cell membrane injury?
- loss of Na ion pump 2. membrane permeability 3. injury to membranes in RER
what is result of cell membrane permeability due to injury?
- abnormal Ca influx 2. mitochondria damage 3. decrease ATP production
what is the result of loss Na ion pump due to cell membrane injury?
cell swelling
what is the results of injury to membrane in RER ?
- dislocation of ribosomes 2. inhibition of protein synthesis