Patho infl. and recovery Flashcards
What 3 factors induce ROS production and lead to mitochondria damage?
Radiation, toxins, reperfusion
Where originates oxygen used to form ROS in reperfusion?
Restoration of arterial blood flow to an affected limb floods ischemic tissue with oxygen. This molecular oxygen reacts with enzymes (…) to form ROS.
Molecular oxygen reacts with …………. (3) to form ROS.
xantine oxidase, NADPH oxidaze, NO synthase
What 3 types of ROS are formed after molecular oxygen reacts with some enzymes?
superoxide, hydroxyl radicals, singlet oxygen
How ROS disrupt cellular functions? (3)
DNA mutations, protein synthesis disruption/protein damage, membrane lipis peroxidation
What are antioxidant enzymes that convert ROS to oxygen and water?
superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, calatase
What reaction is catalyzed by catalase/glutathione peroxidase?
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) –> H2O (it is called detoxification)
When are neutralized ROS generated during cellular respiration?
Before it causes damage
What are the result molecules in detoxification?
Oxygen and water
Why there is ROS damage to cell after reperfusion if normally cells are capable to neutralize it?
Because in postischemic damage, the production of ROS exceeds the neutralizing capabilities of antioxidant enzymes (high oxidative stress) –> cell injury and death
What is high oxidative stress?
ROS exceeds the neutralizing capabilites of antioxidant enzymes
Eg there is prostata cancer with radiation treatment. What condition may develop?
acute radiation enteritis
What are 2 mechanisms that cause cell damage when used ionizing radiation?
DNA double-stranded breakage and generation of ROS
DNA double-strand breakage in ionizing radiation?
Breakage of both strands is required. Single-strand breaks can be repaired by polymerase
What is used to form ROS (tipo unstable molecules) by ionization?
WATER. Unstable molecules formed by the ionization of water.
Radiation-induced DNA damage impairs ………. and initiates ………….. of susceptible cells.
Mitosis; apoptosis
What are susceptible cells for radiation?
Intestinal crypt stem cells and other highly proliferative cells (eg, cancer cells, hematogenous precursors)
What immune response is innitiated by cellular damage due to radiation?
induced immune response –> increased proinflammatory cytokines + migration of leukocytes (eg neutrophils) –> Inflammation –> production of additional ROS that leads to contribution of radiation-induced tissue damage
What proinflammatory cytokines participate in radiation-induced cell damage?
IL-1, IL-6, TNF-alpha
What is the result of GI mucosal denudation due to radiation therapy?
decreased absorptive area –> diarrhea
What causes diarrhea in radiation therapy?
GI mucosal denudation –> decreased absorptive area –> diarrhea
What are late GI complications due to radiation therapy?
Intestinal fibrosis = strictures, adhesions, bowel obstruction
As an antioxidant, ………………….. neutralizes ROS, preventing …………..
superoxide dismutase; preventing cell injury.
Cytochrome P450 enzymes metabolize ……………. and ………..
endogenous toxins as well as drugs.
How can cytochrome P450 enzymes can lead to hepatotoxicity?
Cytochrome P450 enzymes metabolize endogenous toxins as well as drugs. They are capable of producing ROS, which can contribute to the hepatotoxicity seen with certain drugs.
What enzyme is bactericidal, but also causes oxidative damage to host cells?
myeloperoxidase
NADPH oxidase catalyzes the reduction of …………… to ………….., aiding in bacterial destruction by phagocytic cells.
molecular oxygen to superoxide free radicals
What reaction catalyzes NADPH oxidase?
reduction; molecular oxygen to superoxide free radicals
What is the effect on bacterias y superoxide free radicals that are produces by NADPH oxidase?
It aids bacterial destruction by phagocytic cells
Proteasome activity normally increases in …………………………..
response to oxidative stress
the ubiquitin-proteosome system is inhibited by ……………..
ionizing radiation
radiation-induced tissue damage occurs primarily through the ……………..
Generation of free radicals
Ionizing radiation causes …………… and ……………damage
cellular and DNA
What triggers progressive inflammation and tissue damage in radiation therapy?
Ionizing radiation causes cellular and DNA damage primarily through generation of reactive oxygen species, which can trigger progressive inflammation and tissue damage.
What breakdowns proteins?
Ubiquitin protease pathway
Viral infection. Need to activated cellular immune. What is needed for activation and what system participates?
Need viral protein presentation to effector immune cells (eg CD8 lymph). These proteins are broken down by ubiquitin protease pathway and hydrolyzed peptides are presented to effector cells.
What proteins are broken down by ubiquitin-proteasome pathway?
native and foreign intracellular (eg viral) proteins
What initiates UPP?
Ubiquitin ligase
What does ubiquitin ligase?
It recognizes proteins and catalyzes the attachement of ubiquitin
What specific feature have proteins that participate in UPP and eventually are broken down?
Those proteins are tagged with ubiquitin. Then they are broken down by proteosome to peptide fragments –> recycled to amino acids
What catalyzes breakdown of proteins in UPP?
proteasome; proteins to peptide fragments
What is presented to MHC class I in viral infection?
PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS!!!!!
The are got after proteins are broken down by proteasome
What cell process if initiated by cytotoxic CD8 when eg viral peptides are presented?
apoptosis
What process happens when apoptosis is initiated by cytotoxic CD8?
activation of caspase cascade through the release perforin and granzyme
What is activated by perforins and granzymes?
caspase cascade
What state is cachexia?
hypermetabolic
What drives cachexia?
elevated proinfalmmatory cytokines (eg TNF-alpha, IL-6)
What is stimulated by TNF-alpha and IL-6 in cachexia?
UPP, therefore there is the degradation of muscle proteins (actin, myosin)
In cancer-related cachexia, high levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines lead to increased ……………………….. of ……………….. proteins, which in turn leads to extensive skeletal muscle loss
ubiquitination of sarcomeric muscle proteins -_> extensive skeletal muscle loss
How is called the destruction of targeted proteins?
selective proteolysis
Oligopeptides formed within within proteasomes further degraded by …………………………. into ………..
cytosolic peptidase into individual amino acids
Necrosis is characterized by ……………………… and …………………………due to external factors such as infection, toxin, or trauma.
cellular injury and premature death
What are the reasons of necrosis?
external factors such as infections, toxins, trauma
Main change in necrotic cell?
irreparable damage to the cellular membrane with subsequent leakage of cellular contents
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies are caused by X-linked mutations to the ……………….
dystrophin gene
Function of dystrophin?
Dystrophin provides mechanical stability to muscle cells during contraction.
Pathophysiology when dystrophin gene mutations?
Mutations are associated with membrane tears that allow calcium to enter the cell and cause myofiber damage
What happens to the cell when telomers shorten beyond a certain point?
the cell undergoes apoptosis or senescence
Reprogramming of undifferentiated mesenchymal cells (eg, connective tissue) is a form of ……………………
Metaplasia
………………………………….(eg, connective tissue) is a form of metaplasia
Reprogramming of undifferentiated mesenchymal cells
Acid phosphatase is found in the …………………………
lysosomes
What does acid phosphatase?
hydrolyzes organic phosphates
guanylate cyclase plays important role in …………………….. and ……………………… of ………………. (eg ……….. and ………………..)
activation and regulation of diverse physiologic processes (eg smooth muscle relaxation, retinal phototransduction)
What secondary signal is in smooth muscle relaxation and retinal phototransduction?
guanylate cyclase
Apoptosis is a means of carefully regulated cell death in which the cell activates …………………..
enzymes to degrade its own nuclear DNA and proteins
What is the membrane condition in apoptosis?
it is intact
Why there are no inflammation in apoptosis?
because no cell contents are leaked into the surrounding tissue
What are the apoptosis phases? (2)
initiation and execution
What happens in initiation phase in apoptosis?
protein-hydrolyzing caspases are activated
What happens in execution phase in apoptosis?
caspases bring about the cell death by cleaving cellular proteins and activating DNAses
protein-hydrolyzing caspases are activated in ………… phase
initiation
caspases bring about the cell death by cleaving cellular proteins and activating DNAses in ………….. phase
execution
The initiation of apoptosis occurs via signals from …………………………….
two separate pathways
What are 2 pathways that initiate apoptosis?
intrinsic (mitochondrial) and extrinsic (dead receptor)
In the intrinsic pathway, the mitochondria become more ………………….. and it leads to release of ………………………. into………………..
permeable; pro-apoptotic substances; into cytoplasm
Release of pro-apoptotic substances in intrinsic pathway in apoptosis happens in response to ………………………………… (2)
in response to stress or the cessation of survival signal