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Lecture 9 - Apoptosis - Basic Flashcards

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What is the point of apoptosis?

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Balance the size of tissues - the same number of cells need to die as are born in order to maintain the size of a tissue

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True or false: Tissues with the greatest frequencies of cell proliferation also exhibit the greatest frequencies of apoptosis.

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True

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What are the tissues with the greatest rates of cell proliferation and death?

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Thymus, spleen, small intestine, epidermis, ovarian follicles

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What triggers necrosis?

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Sustained ischemia, physical, or chemical trauma

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What triggers apoptosis?

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Specific signals that activate specific genes

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What happens to necrotic cells?

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They swell, the organelles are damaged, and chromatin is randomly degraded. They lyse and organelles are destroyed.

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What happens to apoptotic cells?

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They shrink, the organelles stay intact, and the chromatin is degraded systematically. Membrane blebs and the cell contents are retained.

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What is the end result of necrosis?

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Inflammation

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What is the end result of apoptosis?

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Phagocytosis

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What would DNA from a necrotized cell look like? From an apoptotic cell?

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A smearBands of about 180 bp

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Syndactyly

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Webbed digits due to a lack of apoptosis

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Polydactyly

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Extra digits due to a lack of apoptosis

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What is a disease that results from too much apoptosis?

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Polycystic kidney disease (PKD)

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What is characteristic of PKD?

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Numerous cysts on the surface of the kidneys and large empty spaces in histological sections (the spaces should be full of glomeruli)

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True or false: Apoptosis involves withdrawing serum and nutrients that are critical to the cell and this is an actin-based retraction process.

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True

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True or false: There are no varying degrees of serum withdrawal.

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False

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How is PKD inherited?

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There is an autosomal dominant mutation on the PKD1 gene

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True or false: Blebbing is not an actin-based process.

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False

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True or false: Apoptosis elicits an inflammatory response?

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False

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20
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A DNA ladder is characteristic of what kind of cell death?

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Apoptosis

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What are the three phases of apoptosis?

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Induction, modulation, and execution

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What are the different types of apoptosis induction?

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Physiologic activators, damage-related activators, and therapy-associated activators

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What are the physiologic activators?

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TNF-alpha, FasL, growth/survival factor withdrawal, glucocorticoids

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What are the damage-related activators?

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Viral infection, heat shock, toxins, tumor suppressors, oxidants/free radicals

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What are the therapy-associated activators?

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UV/gamma irradiation, chemotherapeutic drugs

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What are the major pathways of apoptosis induction?

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Intrinsic and extrinsic

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What does modulation of apoptosis do and what is the most important protein family of modulators?

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It can change the rate at which cell death occurs and the most important modulators are the Bcl proteins

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Bcl proteins

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Modulators of the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis by up- or down-regulating it

29
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Burkitt’s Lymphoma

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A cancer that develops as a result of either over-production of anti-apoptotic Bcl proteins or under-production of pro-apoptotic Bcl proteins

30
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Bcl-2

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An anti-apoptotic protein

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BAD, BAX

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Pro-apoptotic proteins

32
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What are the executioners of the cell?

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Caspases followed by endonucleases; caspases are directly responsible for blebbing

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What is a critical feature of the extrinsic pathway?

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It works by death receptors, death receptor domains, and death adapter proteins that are inside the cell and transduce the signal

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What are the two major death receptors?

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TNF-alpha and Fas

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What does TNF stand for?

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Tumor necrosis factor

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What do the adapter proteins that are triggered by the death receptors activate?

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The beginning of the caspase cascade

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Which cells die - the cells that express the TNF-alpha and Fas receptors or the ones that send out the ligands?

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The ones that express the receptors

38
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What do tumor cells make a lot of?

39
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What are two examples of immunologically privileged sites in the human body and what are they protected from?

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The back of the eyes and the testes are protected by inflammatory responses

40
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What do capillaries in the eye express constitutively?

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Fas ligand

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What do lymphocytes express constitutively?

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Fas receptor

42
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What is one important executioner caspase?

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Caspase III

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What is another name for the intrinsic pathway?

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The mitochondrial pathway

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What is the stimulus of the intrinsic pathway?

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Withdrawal of growth factors and hormones

45
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?Ischemia

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ischemia - necrosis

46
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Is this necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?chemical and physical trauma

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chemical and physical trauma - necrosis

47
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?p53

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p53 - apoptosis - intrinsic pathway (intracellular receptor)

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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?TNF-a

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TNF-a: extrinsic pathway of apoptosis - intermembrane receptor

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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?FAS-L / -R

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FAS-L / -R: extrinsic pathway of apoptosis - transmembrane receptor

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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?mitochondrial pathway

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mitochondrial pathway - intrinsic pathway of apoptosis (in cell)

51
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?cell swelling and lysis prior to cell death

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cell swelling and lysis prior to cell death - necrosis

52
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?organelle damage

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organelle damage - necrosis

53
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?inflammation

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inflammation - necrosis

54
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?random chromatin degradation / DNA smear on gel

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random chromatin degradation / DNA smear on cell – necrosis

55
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?programmed cell death

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programmed cell death = apoptosis

56
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?radiation

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radiation - apoptosis

57
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?toxins

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toxins - apoptosis

58
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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?withdrawal of hormones

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withdrawal of hormones - apoptosis

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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?cell shrinks andblebs

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cell shrinks and blebs - apoptosis

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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?endocytic vesicles and phagocytosis

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endocytic vesicles and phagocytosis - apoptosis

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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?endonucleases cut the linkage regions between nucleosomes, resulting in DNA laddering (on a gel)

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endonucleases cut the linkage regions between nucleosomes, resulting in DNA laddering (on a gel) - apoptosis

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Is this condition/characteristic distinctive of necrosis or apoptosis? If it is apoptosis, which pathway does it go through (extrinsic or intrinsic)?BCL

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BCL - pro- and anti-apoptotic factors (intracellular) - intrinsic pathway of apoptosis

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