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Pathology vs. Clinical pathology
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(a) Pathology:
- Branch of medicine, investigates the essential nature of the disease, especially changes in body tissues and organs that cause or are caused by the disease.
(b) Clinical pathology:
- Pathology applied to solution of clinical problems, esp. use of lab methods in clinical diagnosis (body tissues, body fluids).
Study of functional changes that occur in the body as a result of an injury, disorder or disease; often referred to as study of the mechanism of disease= ?
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Pathophysiology: Study of functional changes that occur in the body as a result of an injury, disorder or disease; often referred to as study of the mechanism of disease
Development of cellular events, reactions, and other pathologic mechanism that occur in the development of the disease = ?
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Pathogenesis:
- Development of cellular events and reactions and other pathologic mechanism that occur in the development of the disease.
- Basically, how a disease develops.
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Mitochondria:
- Complete breakdown of glucose and produces adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
- Powerhouse of cells.
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Nucleus: control center of cells, regulates cell growth, metabolism and reproduction, contains genetic information (DNA)
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Nucleolus: produces RNA (translates genetic information)
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Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER):
- Synthesis enzyme and proteins, lipids and hormones.
- Rough ER: Protein
- Smooth ER: Everything else
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Ribosomes: aid in protein production
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Golgi proteins:
- Sorts, chemically modifies, packages proteins produced on the endoplasmic reticulum.
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(a) Lysosomes:
- Digests excess or worn out organelles, food particles, virus, bacteria.
Functions of epithelial tissue?
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Epithelial tissues covers the outer surface of body and lines GI, respiratory, GU tract, secretory portion of glands and ducts, also lines the internal closed cavities including blood vessels
Functions:
- Serve as barrier, physical protection
- Absorption (villi)
- Filtration (cilia)
- Secretion
- Permeability
- Regeneration
3 types of epithelial tissue?
- according to shape
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According to shape:
1. Squamous (thin/flat)
2. Cuboidal (cube): surface of ovary and thyroid
3. Columnar (column): lines intestine
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Tissue:
- Simple Squamous Epithelium
Description:
- Single layer of flat, irregularly shaped cells
- Central, flattened nucleus
Location:
- Lining of alveoli in lungs
- Endothelium (i.e., lumen of blood and lymphatic vessels and heart chambers)
- Mesothelium (i.e., serous membranes lining body cavities)
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Tissue:
- Cuboidal Epithelium
Description:
- Cuboidal cell (i.e., approximately as tall as wide)
- Central, spherical nucleus
- Apical surface may have microvilli
3 types of epithelial tissue?
- number of layers
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- Simple
- Stratified
- Pseudostratified – looks like more layers but there is not
What Tissue = ?
- More than one layer of cells.
- Deepest layer resting on the basement membrane.
- Designed to protect body surfaces.
- Lining of mouth and skin surfaces.
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(a) Stratified Epithelial tissue:
- More than one layer of cells with
- Deepest layer resting on the basement membrane
- Designed to protect body surfaces (lining of mouth and skin surfaces)
All of the cells are in contact with underlying intercellular matrix but some do not extend to the surface = ?
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Pseudostratified Epithelial tissue: All of the cells are in contact with underlying intercellular matrix but some do not extend to the surface.
- Pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium with goblet cells forms lining of most of the upper respiratory tract
- Normal columnar ciliated epithelial cells- of trachea and bronchi replaced with stratified squamous epithelium cells
- Smoker’s cough
Stratified epithelium characterized by cells that can change shape and become thinner when the tissue is stretched = ?
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Transitional epithelium:
- Stratified epithelium characterized by cells that can change shape and become thinner when the tissue is stretched.
- Lining of organs that constantly change volume such as urinary bladder, urethra, ureters
Components of connective tissue = ?
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Components of connective tissue:
(a) Cells
(b) Extracellular protein fibers
- Collagenous fibers,
- Elastic fibers,
- Ground substance:Unstructured material filling spaces between cells and containing fibers.
Connective / Supportive
Tissue:
- Connects, binds, supports various tissues, fills body spaces, produce blood cells.
- Cells of connective tissue produce extracellular matrix (made of fibers and ground substance) that supports and holds tissue together.
Examples of connective tissue = ?
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- Tendons, ligaments
- Adipose tissue
- Cartilage
- Bone
- Blood and lymph
Marfan syndrome = ?
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Connective Tissue Disorder - Marfan Syndrome
(a) Marfan syndrome
- A genetic condition that affects connective tissue, which provides support for the body and organs.
- Mutation limits the body’s ability to make proteins needed to build connective tissue.
- Marfan syndrome is caused by a mutation in the FBN1 gene.
(b) Marfan syndrome can damage;
- Blood vessels
- Heart
- Eyes
- Skin
- Lungs
- Bones (hips, spine, feet, and rib cage)
- Marfan syndrome is rare, happening in about 1 in 5,000 people.
Characteristics of marfan syndrome = ?
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Characteristics of Marfan syndrome:
- Tall and slender build
- Disproportionately long arms, legs and fingers
- A high, arched palate and crowded teeth
- Extreme nearsightedness / retinal detachment
- An abnormally curved spine
- Flat feet
- Aortic aneurysm (life threatening)
3 types of muscle tissue = ?
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3 types of muscle tissue:
- Skeletal
- Smooth
- Cardiac
- Main function is contraction, movement of body and its parts and changes in size and shape of internal organs.
Characteristics of skeletal muscle = ?
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Skeletal muscle:
- Long and cylindrical
- Striated
- Voluntary
Characteristics of smooth muscle = ?
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Smooth muscle:
- Nonstriated
- Spindle shape
- Involuntary
- Intercalated disks/ gap junctions
Characteristics of cardiac muscle = ?
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Cardiac muscle:
- Shorter, branched
- Involuntary
- Striated
- Intercalated disks/ gap junctions
Steps in excitation-contraction coupling = ?
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Steps in excitation-contraction coupling:
- Action potential in muscle membrane propagated to T tubules, that carry depolarization from surface to the interior of the muscle fiber
- Depolarization of T tubules
- Open SR Calcium release channels
- Increase intracellular calcium concentration
- Calcium binds troponin C
- Tropomyosin moves and allows interaction of actin and myosin
- Cross-bridge cycling
- Contraction/ Force generation
Cardiac muscle cells are called = ?
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Cardiac muscle cells are called cardiomyocytes.
Intercalated disks contain gap junctions that allow for = ?
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Intercalated disks contain gap junctions that allow coordinated contraction of heart.
Increase in troponin and other cardiac enzymes in blood used to help diagnose heart attack.
- Normal range = ?
- Heart attack = ?
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Increase in troponin and other cardiac enzymes in blood used to help diagnose heart attack.
- Normal range: below 0.04 ng/ml
- Heart attack: above 0.40 ng/ml
Smooth muscle:
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- where is it found = ?
- functions = ?
- what does it lack = ?
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Smooth muscle:
- Involuntary muscle
- Lacks striations, because thick and thin filaments are not organized in sarcomeres
- Smooth muscle is found in the walls of hollow organs (GI tract, bladder, uterus, bronchioles, eye muscles).
Functions:
- To produce motility e.g. propel urine along the ureter
- To maintain tension e.g. smooth muscle in the wall of blood vessels
- Lacks troponin, instead relies on another calcium binding protein called as calmodulin
Muscle cell membrane = ?
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Sarcolemma: Muscle cell membrane
Transverse (T) tubule = ?
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Transverse T tubule:
- Carries depolarization from action potential at muscle cell surface to the interior of the fiber.
- Extensive network of muscle cell membrane
- Invaginates deep into the muscle fiber
Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) = ?
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Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR):
- Site for storage and release of calcium for excitation contraction coupling.
- Myofibrils are surrounded by SR.
- Calcium is accumulated in the SR by the action of calcium ATPase in the SR.
- Pumps calcium from ICF of muscle fiber into the interior of SR
- Keeps the intracellular calcium concentration low when muscle fiber is at rest
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(a) Sarcolemmal Membrane:
- The cell membrane surrounding a skeletal muscle fiber or a cardiomyocyte.
- It consists of a lipid bilayer and a thin outer coat of polysaccharide material (glycocalyx) that contacts the basement membrane.
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(a) Transverse tubules:
- Function as a major location for ion exchange.
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Terminal cistemae of sarcoplasmic reticulum:
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(a) Longitudal sarcoplasmic reticulum:
- Complex network of specialized smooth endoplasmic reticulum that is important in transmitting the electrical impulse as well as in the storage of calcium ions.
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(a) Z-Disk:
- Stabilizing F-actin filament structures
- Allowing force transfer between individual sarcomeres, and
- Acting as signaling centers communicating with the nucleus
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(a) Actin (Thin filaments):
- Actin has myosin binding sites
- Tropomyosin is a filamentous protein that runs along the groove of each twisted actin filament
- At rest, myosin binding sites are covered with tropomyosin
(b) Troponin:
- Troponin T - attaches troponin to tropomyosin
- Troponin I - inhibits interaction between action and myosin
- Troponin C - calcium binding protein
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Myosin (Thick filaments):
- Heavy chains, alpha helical structure, in which 2 chains coil to form tail.
- 4 light chains and N terminus of heavy chain form globular heads on myosin molecule
- Heads have actin-binding site
- Necessary for cross bridge formation
- Site that binds and hydrolyzes ATP
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(a) Titin
- Titin is important in the contraction of striated muscle tissues.
- Connects the Z disc to the M line in the sarcomere.
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M-line:
- Anchor point for myosin filaments during muscle contraction.
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Bare zone:
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A-Band:
- The A-band is a central part of a sarcomere, which is the fundamental unit of contraction in muscle cells.
- The A-band is made up of thick filaments called myosin.
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Sarcomere: The basic contractile unit (contains full A band and two half I bands).
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Tissue:
- Stratified squamous
Description:
- Multiple layers of cells
- Apical cells are squamous; basal cells are typically cuboidal or polyhedral
- Apical cells have nuclei; these are living cells
Location:
- Oral cavity and oropharynx, esophagus, and anus
- Uterine cervix, vagina, distal female urethra, and spongy urethra (male)
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Tissue:
- Stratified cuboidal
Location:
- Ducts of sweat glands
- Larger ducts of salivary glands
Description:
- Usually two layers of cells
- Apical cells are cuboidal
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Tissue:
- Stratified columnar
Location:
- Large excretory ducts (e.g., salivary gland ducts).
- Membranous and spongy parts of male urethra.
- Conjunctiva of eye
- Nasopharynx and nasal side of soft palate
Description:
- Usually two layers of cells
- Apical cells are columnar; deeper cells are low cuboidal to polyhedral.
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Tissue:
- Pseudostratified columnar epithelium
Location:
- Lining of most of respiratory tract (nasal cavity, nasopharynx, larynx, trachea, and bronchi)
- Lining of epididymis
- Lining of parts of urinary tract (parts of female urethra, and membranous and spongy urethra in male)
- Lining of large excretory ducts of glands
Description:
- Single layer of cells, all of which contact basal lamina but only some reach the apical surface
- Nuclei at different levels, which gives “impression” of a stratified epithelium
- Usually ciliated
– looks like more layers but there is not
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