Lec 2 Flashcards
Greek for corpse
Necros
Life
characterized by active metabolism (chemical changes converting nutriment to energy and living tissue)
Death
when biochemistry becomes just chemistry, and entropy prevails unchecked
Coagulative
caused by Ischemia/Infarcts
Liquifactive
Focal bacteria infections – abscesses
Fibrinoid
AgAbC complexes, radiation
Caseous
Tuberculosis
Common Events in Cell Injury and Death from Diverse Causes
- Mitochondrial membrane dysfunction
- Plasma membrane dysfunction
- Lysosomal membrane dysfunction
Yellow - acute MI (necrosis)
Blue - old MI (fibrous scar = white)
Left = normal heart muscle
Center = red dead myocardium
Right = acute inflammation neutrophils
Apoptosis
When a cell is deprived of growth factors or its DNA or proteins are damaged beyond repair, the cell kills itself by activating enzymes that degrade its own DNA and constituent protein
-cleaned up by macrophages, no inflammation (no neutrophils) results
Normal EM of myocardium mitochondria (M)
black dots = glycogen granules
Reversible damage-glycogen depletion and swollen mitochondria
Irreversible calcium deposition
Fatty liver, yellow and swollen