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MoD - Cell injury Flashcards

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What is hypoxia?

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Oxygen deprivation that leads to reduced oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria. This reduced aerobic respiration leads to decreased ATP

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What are the seven causes of cell injury/death?

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Hypoxia
Physical agents 
Chemical agents 
Microorganisms
Immune mechanisms 
Dietary insufficiency 
Genetic abnormalities
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What is hypoxaemic hypoxia?

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This is where there is reduced arterial O2

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What is anaemic hypoxia?

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This is the decreased ability of haemoglobin to carry O2

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What is ischaemia?

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This is interruption to the blood supply to tissues.
Can be due to reduced venous drainage or arterial supply.
Leads to loss of O2 and loss of metabolic substrates

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What is histiocytic hypoxia?

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The inability to utilise O2 e.g cyanide

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What are the two immune mechanisms of cell injury?

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Hypersensitivity - tissue is injured secondary to a vigorous immune reaction (e.g hives)
Autoimmune - immune system fails to distinguish self from non self e,g graves.

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What are the 4 targets of cell injury?

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Cell membranes (plasma and organelle)
Nucleus (genetic material)
Mitochondria (ATP)
Proteins (structure and metabolism)

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What are the consequences of hypoxia?

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The reduced ATP reduces the action of the sodium/potassium pump
The increases intracellular Na+ which causes water to move into the cell leading to swelling.
Also low ATP leads to increased aerobic glycolysis leading to more lactate = low pH… This causes clumping of chromatin, and reduced enzyme activity.
The low ATP leads to the detachment of ribosomes from the ER. This reduces protein synthesis.

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What are the features of irreversible hypoxic injury?

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Profound disturbance in membrane permeability
Influx of Ca2+ from outside and release from calcium stores in mitochondria and ER.
This leads to increased production of -
ATPases (decreased ATP)
Phospholipases ( decreased phospholipids) - lysosomal membranes
Proteases (decreased membrane stability)
Endonucleases (damage DNA)
Also intracellular substances leak out - detected in blood samples (ie AST/ALT - liver)

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What is ischaemia reperfusion injury?

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If blood returns to hypoxic tissue before it becomes necrotic the damage can be worse -

  1. Increased free radical production
  2. Increased no. If neutrophils
  3. Delivery of compliment proteins
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What are free radicals?

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Unstable configuration of outer electrons react with lipids and damage proteins.

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What is the most dangerous free radical?

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*OH

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How is *OH formed?

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Radiation of water
Fenton reaction - iron plus H2O2
Haber Weiss - superoxide radical and H2O2

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What do heat shock proteins do?

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These recognise misfolded proteins and ensure they are correctly folded. When cells are submitted to stress they increase HSPs.

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What is oncosis?

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Cell death with swelling, this is the spectrum of change that occurs prior to death.

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What is apoptosis?

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Cell death by shrinkage. Induced by intracellular processes. That activate enzymes to destroy cellular DNA. Often called cell suicide.

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What is necrosis?

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The morphological changes that occur after a cell has been dead some time

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What is diagnosis of cell death by dye exclusion?

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This is when dye is applied to a cell and if it doesn’t enter the cell the cell is live. If the dye enters the cell it is dead.

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What are the features of the light microscope view of oncosis?

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Reduced pink stain of cytoplasm due to increased water swelling.
Then an increased pink stain due to detached ribosomes
Nuclear changes - clumped chromatin.
Abnormal intracellular accumulation

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What are the features of an electron microscope view of oncosis?

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Reversible changes - swelling, cytoplasmic blebs, clumped chromatin, ribosome separation.
Irreversible changes - nuclear changes, pykosis (shrinkage), karryohexis (fragments), karryolysis (dissolution)
Swelling and rupture of lysosomes

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What are the principle molecules that leak out of cells?

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Potassium - stops heart
Realised from severe necrosis (burns, MI, tumour lysis syndrome)
Enzymes - indicate organ involved
Myoglobin - realised from dead myocardium or striated muscle.

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What are the two types of pathological calcification?

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Dystrophic -

Metastatic

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What is dystrophic calcification?

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Occurs in areas of dying tissue. Local disturbance in tissue favours hydroxyapatite crystals to lay down. Causes organ disfunction - ie atherosclerosis in great vessels leads to heart failure

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What is metastatic calcification?

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Body wide calcification due to hypercalcaemia (caused by increased PTH or bone turnover) hydroxyapatite crystals are deposited in normal tissues throughout the body.

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Why do cell’s ability to replicate diminish with age?

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Every replication the telomere is shortened

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What are the two main types of necrosis?

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Coagulative

Liquefactive

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Why does coagulative necrosis occur?

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Ischaemia in tissues. Proteins undergo denaturation and these denatured proteins then coagulate.
Tissue appears white and solid to the naked eye
Histologically the cellular architecture is preserved (ghost outline)

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Explain the pathophysiology of Liquefactive necrosis

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This is seen in infection of infarction of the brain (fragile tissue)
Protein undergoes autolysis (dissolution by proteases)
Tissue becomes a viscous mass and in acute inflammation pus is present.
Histologically lots of neutrophils and cell debris

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Where is caseous necrosis seen?

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In TB infections

White soft cheese looking material.

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What is fat necrosis?

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Destruction of adipose tissue
Mainly seen in pancreatitis (inflammation of acinar cells lead to lipase release)
Chalky white areas of combined fat with calcium (saponification) looks like wax
Microscopically - outline of adipose cells and bluish cast from calcium deposits.

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What is gangrene?

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Necrosis that is visible to the naked eye

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What is the difference between dry and wet gangrene?

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Dry gangrene is when air results in dry hardened dead skin

Wet gangrene is when the dead cells are infected with bacterial culture.

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What is an infarction?

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Area of tissue death (necrosis) caused by ischaemia. Mostly due to thrombosis or embolism.

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What is a red infarction? And why does it occur?

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This is when there is extensive haemorrhage into the dead tissue.
Can be due to -
- Organ having dual blood supply so occlusion of main artery leads to necrosis yet secondary arterial supply allows blood to enter. -
- Or when capillary bed of two arterial supplies merge.
- Or loose tissue where there is poor support for fro capillaries.

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What is a white infarction and why does it occur?

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Occurs in solid organs after occlusion of end artery solid nature limits the amount of haemorrhage that can occur.

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What is apoptosis?

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Cell death shrinkage - opposite to mitosis

DNA is cleaved non randomly by capsizes

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When is apoptosis see ?

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When cells are no longer needed
Embryogenesis - sculpting of features ie hands
Or when cell is damaged ie toxic injury or tumours.

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What is seen microscopically in apoptosis?

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Light - cells are shrunken, eosinophilic, chromatin condensation
Electron - cytoplasmic budding - membrane bound apoptosis bodies
No inflammation due to no loss of content

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What are the 4 abnormal cellular accumulations?

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Fluid
Lipids
Protein
Pigments

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Why do abnormal cellular accumulations occur?

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If a cell can’t metabolise something, it remains in the cell

41
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How does fluid accumulate in cells?

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Can appear as vacuoles or due to osmotic disturbance the while cell swells.
This means the cells are enlarged but not hypertrophic

42
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What is accumulation of TAGs in cells known as?

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Steatosis, (often seen in the liver, common causes alcohol, obesity)

43
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What is Mallory’s hyaline?

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Damaged protein that is seen in hepatocytes in alcoholic liver disease die to accumulation of altered keratin filaments

44
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What is a1-antitrypsin deficiency?

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Genetically inherited disorder where the liver produces a misfolded a1-anti trypsin protein. This cannot be packaged in the ER so accumulates .

45
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What are exogenous pigments?

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Outside source e.g coal, soot, tattoo ink

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What are endogenous pigments ?

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Pigments naturally produced by the body (e.g lipofuscin, haemosiderin, bilirubin)

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What is haemosiderin? And what is the condition associated with it?

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Is an iron storage molecule derived from haemoglobin and is yellow /brown. It forms due to and excess of iron (e,g bruise)
Haemochromatosis is genetically increased iron absorption. Leads to iron deposition in skin, liver, pancreas etc ..symptoms include liver damage, endocrine failure,

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