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- to gain an understanding of the process of healing at the cellular and molecular level - to understand the interrelationships of each stage of the healing process - to be able to apply this knowledge to gain insight into the pathology of chronic disease and tissue repair

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What is the molecular environment of a wound?

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(healing vs chronic ulcers)

  • mitogenic activity (high vs low)
  • inflammatory cytokines (low vs high)
  • proteases (low vs high
  • mitotically competent cells vs senescent cells
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What is one the most important things that needs to happen in order to heal?

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Clearing of the inflammatory response

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What the potential outcomes of an injury?

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Stimulus removed (acute injury)
1. Parenchymal cell death (intact tissue framework), superficial wounds, some inflammatory processes:
Regeneration: restitution of normal structure
E.g. liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy
superficial skin wounds
resorption of exudate in lobar pneumonia
2. parenchymal cell death (damaged tissue framework), deep wounds
Repair: scar formation
e.g. deep excisional wounds
myocardium infarction

Persistent tissue damage
Fibrosis: tissue scar
e.g. chronic inflammatory diseases (cirrhosis, chronic pancreatitis, pulmonary fibrosis)

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What is an aspect of normal homeostasis that relates to wound healing?

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In normal tissues there is an equilibrium of proliferation vs apoptosis

  • low level of proliferation in many tissues but not all
  • brain: nerve cells are essentially life long (almost no proliferation)
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What are examples of renewing tissues?

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  • Epidermis
  • GI tract epithelium
  • Haematopoietic system
  • constant homeostatic replacement
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What are examples of stable tissues that undergo compensatory growth?

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Liver and kidney

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What occurs during cell/tissue homeostasis?

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  • baseline cell population that replaces itself (proliferation vs apoptosis)
  • certain level of plasticity - may have a function of their own but can divide/differentiate into cells of more specified functions
  • differentiated cells no longer able to divide
  • stem cells: small number of cells that are able to replace baseline population
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How do cells know when to proliferate or undergo apoptosis?

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  • autocrine (same cell) e.g. liver regeneration
  • paracrine (next door neighbour) (many Growth Factors) e.g. wound healing
  • endocrine (far away, delivered by blood), e.g. hormones
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What are some examples of organ normal and abnormal healing?

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Skin

  • normal healing: wounds, burns
  • abnormal healing: chronic ulcers – pressure, venous stasis, diabetes

Fractures

  • normal healing (slower)
  • abnormal healing - chronic non-healing fractures

GIT

  • normal healing - mechanical or toxic lesions
  • abnormal healing - chronic peptic ulcer, inflammatory bowel disease

Lung

  • normal healing: simple acute injuries
  • abnormal healing: ARDS, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Myocardial infarction: very difficult to heal, often the site of injury will retain fibrotic tissue

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What are mitotically active cells?

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  • always dividing (?)
  • replace dying cells
  • epithelia: skin, oral cavity, exocrine ducts, GI tract, hematopoietic
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What are quiescent cells?

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  • stable
  • usually G0 and low rate of division
  • driven into G1 and rapid proliferation
  • liver, kidney, pancreas, endothelium, fibroblasts
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What are long-lived/stable cells?

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  • ‘permanently’ removed from cell cycle
  • irreversible injury leads only to scar (replacement with non-specialised/non-functional cells/tissue)
  • nerve cells, myocardium
  • excluding ‘tissue-specific’ stem cells
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What is regeneration?

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Regeneration of injured cells by cells of same type as with regeneration of skin/oral mucosa.

Requires basement membrane.

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What is replacement?

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Injured tissue replaced by fibrous tissue (fibroplasia, scar formation) – ‘non-functional’

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What do both regeneration and replacement require?

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Cell growth, differentiation, and cell-matrix interaction

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What are the major cells associated with healing?

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  • fibroblasts: produce growth factors important in the healing process
  • endothelial cells: every cell requires a blood supply
  • epithelial cells: esp GIT
  • osteoblasts: cell types of bone involved in regenerating bone tissue
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What affects the outcome of healing?

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  • organ affected
  • cells: labile/stable/permanent
  • ? loss of matrix ~ severity of injury
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What are healing mechanisms controlled by?

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  • controlled by biochemical factors released in response to cell injury, cell death, or trauma
  • most important control: inducing resting cells to enter cell cycle, i.e. to ‘awaken’ them
  • balance of stimulatory or inhibitory factors
  • shorten cell cycle i.e. faster cell division
  • decrease rate of cell loss i.e. inhibit apoptosis
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What are the 5 steps of molecular mechanisms of proliferation?

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  1. ligand (growth factors, matrix proteins, hormones, cytokines, chemokines etc) and receptor (at cell membrane)
  2. 2nd messenger cascade (cytoplasm)
  3. transcription factor activation (nucleus)
  4. gene expression (nucleus)
  5. Action
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What is the role of the ligand-receptor interaction?

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designed to amplify the signal cascade: the binding of just a few ligands can trigger a rapid and sustained response

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What are the three classes of receptor types?

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growth factor receptors

  • intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity
  • receptors exist as monomers (ligand binding, transmembrane, cytoplasmic)
  • growth factors bind
  • binding –> dimerisation –> autophosphorylation at tyrosine
  • activation of tyrosine kinase activity
  • phosphorylates/activates 4 types cytoplasmic proteins (adaptor molecules)
  • leads to a variety of cytoplasmic pathways (effector molecules)
  • leads to proliferation

seven transmembrane G-protein coupled receptors

  • inflammatory chemokines and hormones bind
  • e.g. vasopressin, serotonin, histamine, many drugs

cytokine receptors

  • w/o intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity
  • don’t have any capacity on their own to trigger a response
  • rather they respond to a secondary messenger which then has enzyme activity
  • bind to cytokines
  • e.g. IL-2, IL-3, IFN-alpha, beta, gamma, GM-CSF, growth hormone etc
  • activate cytosolic protein tyrosine kinases
  • phosphorylation of receptor leads to functional activities e.g. synthesis, secretion, migration etc OR inhibition of these things
  • all involve ligand interaction
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What are the actions of growth factors?

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  • stimulate cell division and proliferation
  • cell migration
  • promote cell survival
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What are some examples of major growth factors?

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EGF/TGF-alpha (epidermal growth factor/transforming growth factor-alpha)

  • from macrophages, platelets, epithelia and found in tissue fluids and secretions (e.g. sweat, saliva, urine)
  • mitogenic for epithelial cells and fibroblasts

PDGF (platelet derived…)

  • family - 3 isoforms, from platelets, macrophages, endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells and tumour cells
  • proliferation and migration of fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, monocytes, pro-inflammatory

FGFs (fibroblast…)

  • family - > 10 types, acidic and basic most studied
  • from macrophages, T cells, endothelial cells and fibroblasts
  • angiogenesis and [mac, fibroblast, epithelial] migration during wound repair
  • development - skeletal muscle and lung
  • haematopoiesis

HGF (hepatocyte…)

  • from fibroblasts, endothelial cells, liver non-parenchymal cells
  • mitogenic for epithelial cells - liver, bile, duct, lung, breast, skin
  • also causes cell migration
  • required for survival during embryogenesis

VEGF (vascular endothelial…)

  • family – from fibroblasts and endothelial cells
  • induces blood vessel formation
  • binds to receptor on endothelial cells
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What is a case of cell growth that is independent of growth factor signals?

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  • cells can also respond to loss of cell-cell contact signals
  • ‘loss of their neighbourhood’
  • e.g. cells anchor to dish surface and divide
  • when cells have formed a complete single layer, they stop dividing (density-dependent inhibition)
  • if some cells are scraped away, the remaining cells divide to fill the gap and then stop
  • this is as opposed to cells which require growth factors to grow in a lab
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What are examples of second messenger cascades in the context of proliferation?

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  • MAP (mitogen associated) kinase pathway
  • Inositol-lipid (IP3)
  • cyclic AMP (adenosine monophosphate) - major pathway emanating from G-protein couple receptor
  • phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3)
  • JAK/STAT (janus kinase/signal transduction and activators of transcription)
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What is the MAP kinase pathway?

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  • GF binds receptor tyrosine kinase

- chain of adaptor proteins/phosphorylation events that ultimately lead to the nucleus and stimulate growth

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What are the ultimate targets of secondary messenger pathways?

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  • signal transduction pathways aim to transmit signals to the nucleus and cause changes in regulation of gene expression
  • thus their targets are transcription factors
  • e.g. protooncogenes: c-fos, c-jun, c-myc = growth promoting
  • e.g. tumour suppressor genes: p53, Rb (retinoblastoma), PTEN = inhibit growth promoting pathways
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What is an important inhibitor of proliferation?

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TGF-beta

  • inhibits progress through S phase
  • transforming growth factor - beta
  • pleiotropic = multiple actions depending on tissue/cell and type of injury
  • decreases epithelial cell proliferation, increases collagen production, anti-inflammatory
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Why should we control the cell cycle?

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  • cells duplicate their genetic material before they divide, ensuring that each daughter cell receives an exact copy of the genetic material
  • a dividing cell duplicates its DNA, allocates the two copies to opposite ends of the cell, and only then splits into daughter cells
  • it is important that these events flow in a precise order
  • timing is crucial
  • regulation of the cell cycle itself is cell autonomous
  • cell cycle is complex - therefore control is complex
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What is a potential outcome of the loss of cell cycle control?

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  • cancer

- tumour cell has multiple nuclei - cell cycle totally screwed up

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How is the cell cycle controlled?

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  • cycle is initiated by signals from growth factors or matrix
  • two critical control point
  • G1 - S: check for DNA damage
  • G2 - M: check for damaged or unduplicated DNA
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What are the two types of control in regards to the cell cycle?

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  • cascade of protein phosphorylation pathways involving cyclins and cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs). Key cyclins are present at different phases of the cell cycle.
  • a set of checkpoints - completion of molecular events monitored - damage induces delay to allow for DNA repair or activation of apoptosis
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How is the position of the cell cycle determined?

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  • the cyclin present
    1. Cdk1/cyclin B initiates mitosis
    2. mitotic activators stimulate the synthesis of cyclin D
    3. cyclins D and E and Cdk4 and Cdk2 phosphorylate Rb, inactivating it
    4. Once R (restriction point) is passed, the cell cycle proceeds
    5. Cdk2/cyclin A stimulate DNA replication
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(briefly) how does regeneration of the liver occur in rats?

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  • organ has the capacity to regenerate after partial hepatectomy
  • can experimentally show that hepatocytes near the region that has been excised will be moved from a G0 state to G1,
  • rapid and efficient response
  • ultimately get a relatively normal sized liver
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What is the importance of the matrix in terms of healing?

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  • if you have injury to the cells but the ECM that underlies these is relatively normal you can get complete recovery
  • if there is a destruction of underlying ECM, the cells don’t know where to go
  • fibrosis occurs more than in normal regeneration
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What has developmental biology shown us?

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  • that ECM is critical for correct cell development and proliferation

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