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Lecture 2 - Cell Injury And Cell Death Flashcards

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What are the general cell responses to injury?

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Cell adapts to the injury
Injured cell repairs if damage is reversible
Cell dies

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What happens when the heart becomes damaged?

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Myocytes have to work harder
Adaptation - Cardiac myocytes hypertrophy
Ventricular hypertrophy
More O2 for bigger cells needed
Hypoxia
Myocardial infarction/arrhythmia

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What are the 2 types of causes to cell injury?

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Environmental
Non-environmental

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What are some environmental causes of cell injury?

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HYPOXIA
TOXINS
Immune mediated
Physical agents
Infection
Nutritional

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What are some non-environmental causes of cell injury?

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Genetics
Ageing

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What is hypoxia?

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Oxygen deprivation

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What are the 4 different causes of hypoxia

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Hypoxaemic hypoxia
Anaemic hypoxia
Ischaemic hypoxia
Histiotoxic hypoxia

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What is Hypoxaemic hypoxia?

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Arterial content of oxygen is low

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What is Anaemic hypoxia??

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Haemoglobin has a reduced ability to carry oxygen (Anaemic or CO poisoning etc…)

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What is Ischaemic hypoxia?

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Interruption to blood supply

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What is Histiotoxic hypoxia?

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Inability to utilise oxygen due to disabled oxidative phosphorylation enzymes

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What may be a cause of Histiotoxic hypoxia?

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Cyanide poisoning

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How quickly are neurones affected by hypoxia?

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Affected after a few minutes

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What are some immune mediated cases of hypoxia and what type of reactions are they?

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Hypersensitivity reactions (anaphylaxis in allergy)

Autoimmune reactions (Graves disease of the thyroid)

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What are hypersensitivity reactions?

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Excessive immune response to non self antigens causing injury

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What is an autoimmune reaction?

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Immune system over reacts to a self antigens causing tissue damage

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17
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What do most mechanisms of cell injury lead to which causes damage?

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Lack of ATP

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18
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What are the 2 main mechanisms of cell injury?

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Depletion of ATP
Oxidative stress (free radicals)

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What are the 6 mechanisms of cell injury?

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Depletion of ATP
Oxidative stress (free radicals)
Direct mitochondrial damage
Direct membrane damage
Disruption to calcium homeostasis
Direct damage to DNA and proteins

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How does Hypoxia result in ATP depletion?

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Less O2
Less oxidative phosphorylation
Less ATP synthesised by mitochondria

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What are the 3 ways reduced ATP affects the cell?

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Affects pH
Calcium homeostasis of cells lost (calcium influx)
Protein synthesis

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How does reduced ATP lead to pH being affected?

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Increased anaerobic respiration
Increased lactic acid build up

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How does reduced ATP cause calcium influx into cells?

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ATP sensitive Na+/K+ pumps affected
Na+ and water enter cell
Calcium also enters the cells

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How does reduced cell ATP lead to protein synthesis being affected?

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Ribosomes detach from ER
Reduced protein synthesis
Causes abnormal protein build up

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25
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How does calcium influx cause irreversible cell damage?

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Calcium activates enzymes like
ATPases
Phospholipases
Proteases
Endonucleases

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26
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Why is activation of phopholipases by excess calcium bad?

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Breaks down membranes which can lead to cell contents leaking out

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What is the affect of activating proteases by excess calcium?

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Cleaves proteins

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What is the affect of activating endonucleases by excess calcium?

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Breaks down DNA

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29
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Where are Free radicals generated?

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The ETC
Ischaemic-repercussion injury
Cellular ageing
Antimicrobial killing by phagocytosis (respiratory burst)

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What are some examples of free radicals/ROS?

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Hydroxyl
Superoxide O2-
Hydrogen peroxide H2O2

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What are the 3 ways which free radicals cause damage?

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Lipids
Proteins
DNA

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32
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How do free radicals damage lipids?

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LIPID PEROXIDATION
Unsaturated fatty acids get attacked producing more free radicals causing a chain reaction

Damages membranes causing calcium influx

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How do free radicals damage proteins?

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Causes cross linking (disulphide bonds)
Oxidation of protein is
Cleaving proteins

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34
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How do free radicals damage DNA?

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Single or double stranded breaks

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34
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How do free radicals damage DNA?

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Single or double stranded breaks

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35
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How does the body control number of free radicals?

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Antioxidants
Transport proteins
Enzymes

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What are some examples of antioxidants?

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Vitamins C and E (Vit C regenerates reduced Vit E)
GSH
Abscorbic acid

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What a re one transport proteins which help control free radicals?

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Iron binds to transferrin
Copper binds to ceruloplasmin

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38
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What is Wilsons disease?

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Improper copper metabolism

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39
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What are some enzymes which control free radicals in the body?

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Superoxide dismutase (SODs)
GSH peroxidase

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40
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What is the function of heat shock proteins?

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Help deal with free radical damage
Help repair and refold damaged proteins or label them for degradation

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41
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What are some indications that injured cells are reversibly injured?

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Swelling
Clumped chromatin
Ribosome dispersion
Cytoplasmic blebs

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What are some indications that cells have been damaged irreversibly?

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Membrane defects
Nuclear changes
Lysis of ER
Lysosome rupture

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43
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Why do cells swell?

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Failure of Na/K+ pump

44
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Why does chromatin clump?

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Reduced pH

45
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What is apoptosis?

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Individual programmed cell death

46
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Is apoptosis pathological or physiological?

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Can be both

47
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What does physiological mean?

48
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What happens to the size of cells in apoptosis?

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Cells shrink
NO INFLAMMATION

49
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What are the enzymes which induce apoptosis?

50
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What are the 2 pathways for apoptosis?

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Intrinsic (mitochondrial)
Extrinsic (death receptor)

51
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How does intrinsic/mitochondrial apoptosis work?

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Mitochondria release cytochrome C

Activates caspase enzymes

Caspase induces apoptosis

52
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How does extrinsic/death receptor apoptosis work?

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Death receptor released by T killer cells

Death receptors bind to cell membrane activating caspase

53
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What is the Definiton of necrosis?

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The morphological changes that occur after a cell has been dead some time (12-24hrs)

54
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What happens tot cell size in necrosis?

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Cells swell

55
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What happens to the nuclei of cells in necrosis?

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Pyknosis (shrinkage)
Karyorrhexis (fragmentation)
Karyolysis (dissolution)

56
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Is Necrosis Physiological or Pathological?

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ALWAYS PATHOLOGICAL

57
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What are the different types of necrosis?

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Coagulative (Main type)
Liquefactive (Main type)
Caseous
Fat necrosis
Fibrinoid

58
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What type of organs does coagulative necrosis affect?

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Solid organs

59
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What is the definition of coagulative necrosis?

How does this appear histologically?

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Proteins denature and coagulate

Retains ghost outline of cells and tissue architecture

60
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What tissue does liquefactive necrosis affect?
How is architecture affected?
Why does Liquefactive necrosis happen?

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Loose tissue
COMPLETE LOSS OF ARCHITECTURE
Proteins broken down by enzymes

61
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What is Caseous necrosis and what does it indicate?

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Seen in LUNG
Indicates TB
Cheese like

What type of giant cell is seen with this infection?
Langhans giant cell

62
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What is fat necrosis?

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Direct trauma to fatty areas

63
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Compare how the DNA is cleaved in apoptosis Vs Necrosis:

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Apoptosis = DNA cleaved neatly between nucleosomes

Necrosis = DNA randomly cleaved

64
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Is there inflammation in Necrosis?

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Yes
None in Apoptosis

65
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What are the 3 important molecules released by injured cells which can be measured in the blood?

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Potassium
Enzymes
Myoglobin

66
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Why excess potassium bad?

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Cardiotoxic
Too much K+ stops the heart

67
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What cells relase K+?
When do cells release K+?

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All cells when undergoing necrosis

68
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What enzymes are tested for in the liver function test?

What proteins are tested for in the liver function test?

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AST/ALT
Aspartate Transaminase and Alanine Transaminase

Bilirubin and Albumin

69
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What enzymes are released into the blood following a myocardial infarction?

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Troponin

Troponin I and Troponin T

70
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What enzymes are released into the blood in pancreatitis?

71
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When is myoglobin released into the blood?

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When skeletal muscle is damaged
Prolonged intense exercise

72
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Why is myoglobin in the blood a problem?

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Myoglobin = TOXIC TO KIDNEYS

73
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What is characteristic of Rhabdomyolysis?

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Dark brown tea coloured urine

74
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How do falls in the elderly lead to Rhabdomyolysis getting myoglobin into the blood?

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Blood flow restricted on area that’s been fallen on
Ischaemic Hypoxia of skeletal muscle

75
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Why do Intracellular accumulations occur in cell injury?

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Struggle to remove due to deranged metabolism

76
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What are the 3 types of accumulation?

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Normal cel accumulations
Abnormal accumulations
Pigment

77
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Features of abnormal cellular accumulations:

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Reversible or permanent
Harmful
Toxic

78
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Cerebral oedema is what type of accumulation?

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Normal accumulation
Water

79
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What is cerbral oedema?

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Hypoxia cell injury of neurones
Less ATP
ATP sensitive Na+ pump affected
Na+ enters cell with water
Brain swells

80
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Why is cerebral oedema so dangerous?

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Brain is in skull so as it swells it has no where to go

81
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How does the brain get further damaged in cerebral oedema?

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Brain compressed on skull
Blood supply cut out (Ischaemic hypoxia)
Liquefactive necrosis

82
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What is an example of an abnormal cell component accumulation?

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Fatty liver disease
Liver cell injured
Fat accumulates

83
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What is Gangrene?

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When necrosis is visible to the naked eye

BUT its NOT a type of necrosis

84
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What is an infarction?

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Infarction is NOT a type of necrosis!! But it is a cause of necrosis

It causes necrosis by reduction in arterial blood flow/loss of blood suppply (ischaemic hypoxia normally the cause of necrosis)

Might be due to an embolism for example

85
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What is Ischaemia?

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Inadequate blood supply to tissue

86
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What can Ischaemia cause?

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Infarction
Which could in turn cause gangrene

87
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What are the 2 types of gangrene?

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Dry and Wet

88
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What is Dry gangrene?

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Necrotic area exposed to air

89
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What type of necrosis is dry gangrene?

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Coagulative necrosis

90
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What is wet gangrene?

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Necrosis caused by infection

91
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What type of necrosis causes wet gangrene?

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Liquefactive necrosis

92
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Give some examples of dry gangrene and their appearance:

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Gangrenous toes
Umbilical cord of new born (physiological)

Leaf like appearance

93
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What is gas gangrene and when does it usually happen?

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Road traffic accidents (skin scrapped across dirty surface)

Infected with anaerobic bacteria

94
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What is a white infarct?

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White in colour due to no haemorrhage

95
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What is a red infarct?

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Red in colour due to haemorrhage

96
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Where do white infarcts usually happen?

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Solid organs (spleen/kidney/heart)

Tissues loose blood flow

97
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Where do red infarcts usually happen?

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In organs with a dual blood supply

98
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How does a red infarct happen?

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Haemorrhaging into dead tissues usually from capillaries

99
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What is pathological calcification?

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Abnormal deposition of calcium within tissues

100
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What is localised (dystrophic) pathological calcification?

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Calcium migrates to dead tissues
Calcium metabolism s normal

101
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What is generalised (metastatic calcification?

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Deposition in other wise normal tissue

Metabolic error causing high levels of circulating calcium

102
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How does excess alcohol cause liver disease?

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Ethanol = toxin
Decreased NAD:NADH ratio
Increased fatty acid synthesis
Fat accumulates

103
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What is alcoholic hepatitis?

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Florid inflammation of the liver

104
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What is released by hepatocytes in liver disease?

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ALT and AST

105
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Once liver has undergone cirrhosis, is the damage reversible?

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NO IRREVERSIBLY INJURED

106
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What are the complications of liver disease?

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Bleeding
Encephalopathy
Ascites

107
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What is Encephalopathy?

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Confusion due to toxins accumulating which would normally be removed by the liver

108
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Why does Ascites occur with liver disease?

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Less protein synthesis in liver (less albumin) means plasma oncotic pressure is lower so less tissue fluid drawn back into blood

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