LEC2 - CELL INJURY AND CELL DEATH Flashcards
___ is one of the most crucial events in the
evolution of disease in any tissue or organ
Cell death
STRESSORS of normal cell
physiologic adaptation
pathologic adaptation
2 reason or causes of cell injury
inability to adapt and injurious stimuli
2 types of cell injury
mild and transient (reversible)
severe progression (irreversible) causing death
2 types of cell death
necrosis or apoptosis
refers to the steady state of the body processses
homeostasis
reversible functional and structural
responses to changes in physiologic states (e.g.,
pregnancy) and some pathologic stimuli, during
which new but altered steady states are achieved,
allowing the cell to survive and continue to function
Adaptations
f the limits of adaptive responses are exceeded or
if cells are exposed to injurious agents or stress, deprived of essentials nutrients, or become compromised by mutations that affect essential cellular constituents, a sequence of events follows
that is termed
cell injury
Cell injury is reversible up to a certain point, but if the stimulus persists or is severe enough from the beginning, the cell suffers irreversible injury and ultimately undergoes ___.
cell death
the end result of progressive cell
injury
cell death
, is one of the most crucial events in the
evolution of disease in any tissue or organ
cell death
cellular response to the altered physiologic stimuli, some non lethal injurious stimuli
cellular adaptations
cellular response to increased demand, increased stimulation
hyperplasia or hypertrophy
cellular response to decreased nutrients, and decreased stimulation
atrophy
cellular response to chronic irritation (physical or chemical)
metaplasia
cellular response to reduced oxygen supply, chemical injury, microbial infection
cell injury
cellular response to acute and transient
acute reversible injury, cellular swelling fatty change
cellular response to progressive ad severe including dna damage
irreversible damage leading to death
necrosis or apoptosis
cellular response to metabolic alterations, genetic, or acquired chronic injury
intracellular accumulations; calcification
cellular response to cumulative sublethal injury over long life span
cellular aging
Interferes with aerobic oxidative respiration
Hypoxia or oxygen deficiency
Common cause of cell injury and death
Hypoxia or oxygen deficiency
A loss of blood supply in a tissue due to
impeded arterial flow or reduced venous
drainage (infarction or occlusion
Hypoxia or oxygen deficiency
Most common cause of hypoxia
Ischemia
pathological causes of ischemia
Pneumonia, Anemia, carbon monoxide (CO)
poisoning
Agents commonly known as poisons (arsenic,
cyanide, or mercuric salts)
Chemical/toxic agents
how chemical or toxic agents cause cellular injury
Cause severe damage at the cellular level by
altering membrane permeability
example of Chemical/toxic agents
(arsenic, cyanide, or mercuric salts)
Toxic agents encountered in our environment
o Air pollutants
o Insecticides
o CO
o Asbestos
o Ethanol (social “stimuli”) – recreational
drug
o Therapeutic drugs
a toxic chemical that is known as the recreational drug
o Ethanol (social “stimuli”)
Infectious agents
- Viruses
- Parasite
- Bacteria
- Fungi
Immune reaction can also result in cell and tissue injury
true or false
true
Immunologic reaction examples
autoimmune
allergic reactions
immunocompromised
Genetic defects example
Congenital malformations
Sickle cell anemia
Genetic defects/deficiency of functional proteins
as cause of cell injury - Nutritional imbalances
give the etiology
o Protein-calorie insufficiency
o Vitamin deficiencies
o Nutrition causes of morbidity and mortality
Physical agents that causes cell injury
- Trauma
- Extremes of temperatures (burns and deep cold)
- Radiation, electric shock
- Sudden changes in atmospheric pressure
a non modifiable cause of cell injury wherein there’s a degenerative changes
aging
it Leads to alteration in replicative and repair abilities of individual cells and tissue
aging
a non modifiable factor that Diminished ability to respond to damage and eventually the death of cells and the organism
aging
It is useful to describe the structural alterations that occur in damaged cells
MORPHOLOGY OF CELL AND TISSUE INJURY
2 morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
CELLULAR SWELLING
FATTY CHANGE
a morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
is the result of failure of energy-dependent ion pumps in the plasma membrane
cellular swelling
morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
inability to maintain ionic fluid homestasis
cellular swelling
morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
in microscopic examination, it will appear and reveal ___
small, clear vacuoles within the cytoplasm
morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
in cellular swelling, also known as
hydropic change or vacuolar degeneration
morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
imbalance of the retention of fluid
cellular swelling
morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
occurs in hypoxic injury and in various forms of toxic excesses such as chole, salt, sugar or metabolic injury
fatty change
morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
microscopically, fatty change will appear and reveal ___
small or large lipid vacuoles in the cytoplasm
morphology that correlates with reversible cell injury
It is principally encountered in cells
participating in fat metabolism
(hepatocytes, myocardial cells)
FATTY CHANGE
intracellular changes associated with reversible injury particularly the plasma membrane
producing blebs, blunting, distortions of microvilli, and loosening, or intercellular attachments
intracellular changes associated with reversible injury particularly the mitochondrial changes
swelling and the appearance of phospholipid-rich amorphous densities
intracellular changes associated with reversible injury particularly the ribosomes
dilation of the endoplasmic reticulum detachment of ribosomes and dissociation of polysomes
intracellular changes associated with reversible injury particularly the nuclear
with clumping of chromatin (pyknosis)
intracellular changes associated with reversible injury particularly the myelin figure
phospholipid masses (cytoplasm)
derived from damaged cellular membranes
factors to consider on how cell respond to injurious stimuli
type of injury,
its duration,
and its severity (chronic or acute)
the consequences of injurious stimulus is based on
type of cells
status of cell
adaptability of cell
genetic makeup of the injured cell
Cell injury results from ___ and ___
functional and biochemical abnormalities
are the free radicals found in the environment which the body can metabolize in low numbers and lower than ATP
reactive oxygen species
what will happen if the mitochondria is damaged
damaged mitochondria –> less production of ATP –> ROS increase –> cell injury
Disturbance in calcium homeostasis
Associated with __
plasma membrane
Damaged plasma membrane will result in ___
inability to manage homeostasis due to influx of fluid (ion, sodium, calcium, potassium) leading to alteration of cells
Damaged lysosomal membrane will result in ___
leakage of cellular components and cause damage to the tissue/ cell → cell death (necrotic)
Damage to DNA and misfolding of proteins
(degraded lysosome) will result to
- Apoptosis
- Increased ROS
what are the principal targets and biochemical mechanisms of cell injury
mitochondria
calcium homeostasis
damage to cellular plasma and lysosomal membrane
damage to dna and misfolding of proteins
The major causes of ATP depletion are
reduced supply of oxygen and nutrients, mitochondrial damage,
and the actions of some toxins
Increased cytosolic Ca2+ activates a number of
enzymes, what are they
phospholipases
proteases
endonucleases
adenosine triphosphates (ATPaseS)
an enzyme that can cause membrane damage
Phospholipases
an enzyme that Break down both membrane and cytoskeletal proteins
Proteases
an enzyme that is Responsible for DNA and chromatin
fragmentation
Endonucleases
an enzyme that is very necrotic
Endonucleases
the enzyme that Hastening ATP depletion
Adenosine triphosphates (ATPaseS)
Increased intracellular Ca2+ levels may also
induce apoptosis, by ___ and by ___
direct activation of caspases
and by increasing mitochondrial permeability
describe the cell size if it’s necrosis
enlarged (swelling )
describe the cell size if it’s apoptosis
reduce /shrinkage