MIDTERM 1 Flashcards
Hypotheses are based on what three factors?
- Inferences
- Observations
- Existing theory
Name 5 laws of cell theory
- Cell is basic unit of life
- Cells come from other cells
- Cells bear genetic material
- Tissues are a collection of similar cells performing one function
- Organism is collection of cells
What is the difference between anabolism and catabolism?
Anabolism: Forming
Catabolism: Breaking
What paradigm seeks to explain the relationship between organisms, and between organisms and the environment?
Ecology
What paradigm seeks to explain how genetic information is passed from DNA to RNA to proteins?
Molecular biology
What are 4 limitations of the biomedical model of disease?
- Excludes psychological/social factors
- Does not address the fact that many diseases do not have a single biological cause
- Does not address variations of normal
- Does not address variations in disease expression
Name 8 criteria to determine causality.
- Consistency
- Specificity
- Temporality
- Biological gradient
- Plausibility
- Coherence
- Experimental results
- Analogy
Define coherence in the context of causality.
Factor A causes Factor B both in the real world and in the lab.
What is the term for a disease with an unknown cause?
Idiopathic
What is the term for a disease that originated from medical treatment?
Iatrogenic
What is the term for the rate of new cases of a disease occurring in a specific population over a particular period of time?
Incidence
What is thet term for the number of cases of a disease in a specific population at a particular time?
Prevalence
What is the term for a disease that spreads suddenly to many people?
Epidemic
What is the term for the motality rate from all causes of death in a population in one year?
Crude mortality rate
What is incidence and prevalence used to described?
Morbidity
What kind of prevention is concerned with reducing the risk of disease?
Primary prevention
What kind of prevention is concerned with screening and early detection?
Secondary prevention
What kind of prevention is concerned with lessening the impact of an ongoing disease?
Tertiary prevention
What is the term for the range of conditions in which an organism can function normally?
Range of tolerance
What is the term for the upper and lower ends of the range of tolerance?
Critical values
What is the term for the values just above and below critical values?
Ranges of resistance
What is the term for the non-homeostatic range of conditions in which compensation occurs?
Allostasis
What is the term for the range beyond allostatic range in which compensations fail?
Allostatic overload
What is the stage at which compensations can no longer be maintained and deteriorate?
Allostatic overload
What is another term for allostatic overload?
Exhaustion
What is the term for the point at which conditions start causing tissue death?
Crisis
What kind of tissues have cells with a high rate of division and a short life span?
Labile tissues
What kind of tissues have cells with a slow rate of division but can go faster if needed?
Stable tissues
What kind of tissues have cells that don’t divide after they’ve matured?
Permanent tissues
What kind of adaptation involves a decrease in cell volume and number?
Atrophy
What kind of adaptation involves an increase in cell volume?
Hypertrophy
What kind of adaptation involves an increase in cell number?
Hyperplasia
What kind of hyperplasia occurs after tissues have lost mass due to injury?
Compensatory hyperplasia
What kind of adaptation involves reversible replacement of one type of cell by another type of cell?
Metaplasia
What is the term for the appearance of abnormal, disorganized cellular forms?
Dysplasia
What happens to cells in hypoxic conditions? (3)
- Less ATP produced
- Inhibits sodium potassium pump
- Sodium accumulates inside cell, along with water (and calcium)
What is the difference between a thrombus and an embolus?
Thrombus: blood clot
Embolus: ANY material that moves through blood vessels
What happens to the cell with gradual ischemia?
Inflammation
What is the difference between ischemia and hypoxia?
Hypoxia: low oxygen
Ischemia: low blood flow
What is the term for the cellular process of using oxygen to convert nutrients to ATP?
Oxidative phosphorylation
Why would lipid peroxidation cause swelling and other cellular injury?
Decrease integrity of cell walls, mitochondrial membranes, and lysosomes
Why does reperfusion injury happen? (2)
- Mitochondria damaged during the ischemic event can no longer process oxygen efficiently, causing increased formation of reactive oxygen species
- ROS causes leaky membrane and increases intracellular calcium
What are two kinds of antioxidants and examples?
- Exogenous antioxidants: vitamins like A, C, E
- Endogenous antioxidants: enzymes like glutathione reductase
What are two causes of cellular infiltrations?
- Excessive synthesis
- Inability to break down materials
What causes fatty liver?
Alcoholism etc. impairs the ability to metabolize fat, so it accumulates within the cells. When the cells burst, the fat deposits in the extracellular space
Name two kinds of calcification
- Dystrophic calcification
- Metastatic calcification
Why is calcification dangerous?
Calcium increases enzymatic function, which can break down cell structures
Which type of calcification involves previously injured tissue, and is common in older adults?
Dystrophic calcification
What type of calcification involves calcium deposits in previously normal tissue?
Metastatic calcification
Name 5 types of pigments that can accumulate
- Lipofuscin
- Melanin
- Hemosiderin, bilirubin, biliverdin
What kind of accumulation looks like crystal, and is caused by viral infection, extracellular glycoprotein, or excess basement membrane?
Hyaline accumulation
What are two products of immune cells that can cause cell injury?
- Enzymes
- ROS
What is the term for condensation of the cell’s nucleus?
Pykinosis
What is the term for destruction of the cell’s nucleus?
Karyolysis
What kind of necrosis looks firm and opaque, and is caused by lack of blood supply?
Coagulation necrosis
What kind of necrosis looks like crumbly cheese?
Caseation
What kind of necrosis looks like a liquid mass, and is caused by lysosomal enzyme release?
Liquefactive/colliquative necrosis
What kind of necrosis looks opaque and soapy, and is caused by release of lipases?
Fatty necrosis
What kind of apoptosis happens during fetal development?
Developmental apoptosis
What is the term for the enzymes that break down the cytoskeleton and activate endonucleases?
Initiator/executioner caspases
What kind of apoptosis is caused by an external signal?
Extrinsic apoptotic pathway
What kind of apoptosis is initiated by the cell?
Intrinsic apoptotic pathway
What activates initiator caspases?
Cytochrome C
What triggers the release of cytochrome C, and where does cytochrome C come from?
Pro-apoptotic molecules; mitochondrial membrane
What is produced as a result of apoptosis?
Apoptotic bodies
What is the term for when sugars spontaneously attach to proteins?
Glycation
Name two disorders characterized by accelerated aging
Hutchinson-Gilford progeria, Werner syndrome
What is the term for the multiple repetitions of DNA sequences at the end of chromosomes that do not code for proteins?
Telomeres
What enzyme adds telomere length to chromosomes?
Telomerase