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what is pathology?

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study of structural, biochemical and functional changes in cells, tissues and organs that UNDERLIE DISEASE

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What is Aetiology?

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Causes of disease

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What is pathogenesis?

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underlying mechansims of disease

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What is morphological changes in terms of pathophysiology?

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Structural alterations in cells or tissue = characteristics of disease OR diagnostic of aetiologic process

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What are Functional abnormalities in terms of pathophysiology?

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End result of genetic, biochemical and structural changes in cells and tissues

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What are the five major aspects of disease processes?

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Aetiology, Pathogenesis, morphological changes, functional abnormalities and clinical manifestations

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What are clinical manifestations in pathology?

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Functional consequences of morphological changes and functional abnormalities

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When does cell injury occur?

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When adaptive capability is exceeded or external stress is inherently harmful.

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If stress to the cell is mild and transient what occurs?

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reversible cell injury with limits

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If stress is severe or persistent what occurs?

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Irreversible cell injury

cell death

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What can cells do in response to tress and stimuli before cell injury occurs?

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Adaption- reversible actions that creates a new steady state to preserve viability and function.

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What are the two types of adoptions that our cells can undergo when stress occurs?

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Physiological and pathological adaptions

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What is an example of a cell response to stress and noxious stimuli?

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Myocytes of the heart:

adapt to increase load (hypertrophy)

cell injury: reversibly injury myocyte –> cell death

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What are physiological adaptions?

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Response to NORMAL stimulation by hormones and endogenous chemical mediators

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What are pathological adaptions?

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When cells module their structure and function to escape injury

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What occurs in pathological hyperplasia

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excessive hormonal or growth factor stimulation

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What occurs in physiological hyperplasia?

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Hormonal or compensatory (part of a tissue moved due to cancerous growth)

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When does hypertrophy occur and what is it due to?

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Occurs when cells are incapable of dividing and due to increased production of cellular proteins.

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When does hyperplasia occur?

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Adaptive response in cells capable of replication

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What are the causes of atrophy?

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decreased workload, loss of innervation, decreased blood supply, inadequate nutrition. Loss of endocrine stimulation and aging.

decreased protein synthesis and protein degradation

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What is atrophy?

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Reduction in size of organ or tissue

Due to decreased cell size and number

Function diminished but not dead

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What is metaplasia?

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One adult cell is replaced by another adult cell type that is better able to withstand adverse environment

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How does metaplasia occur?

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reprogramming of stem cells in normal tissues OR undifferentiated mesenchymal cells

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What are the four cellular growth adaptions in response to stress?

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Hypertrophy, hyperplasia, atrophy and metaplasia

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What allows for reverisble cell injury and at what stage does it occur?
IF damaging stimulus is removed in: early stages or mild forms of functional and morphological changes
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Is cell death normal?
Yes- it allows for maintenance of homeostasis but can be unintentional though injury
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What is the main characteristics of cell injury hallmarks?
Reduced oxidative phosphorylation = depletion of ATP 
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What causes cellular swelling?
Changes in ion concentrations and water influx
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Describe Necrosis
PATHOLOGICAL process Main pathway for common insults (ischemia, toxins, infectious agnets and trauma) = when damage to membranes is SEVERE Unregulated enzymatic digestion
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What occurs in necrosis?
Unregulated enzymatic digestion Initiates inflammation and enzymes leak out of lysosomes and into cytoplasm to digest cell
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What is Apoptosis?
NORMAL process: eliminate cells no longer needed and maintain steady number of cell populations enzymatic degradation of proteins and DNA
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Is Apoptosis or Necrosis regulated? How?
Apoptosis Tightly regulated - Mediated by activation of caspases
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What are the morphological alterations in injured cells?
micro and macroscopic features in damaged cells progresses as cells becomes more damaged
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What are the reversible cell injuries?
Cell swelling (hydropic change) Plasma membrane changes (blebbing, loss of microvilli) Mitochondrial changes (swelling and appearance of clumps) Dilation of ER (detachment of ribosomes) Nuclear alterations (clumping of chromatin)
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What are the Morphologic alterations that occur during necrosis?
Increases eosinophilia (pink dye staining) Nuclear shrinkage, fragmentation and dissolution Breakdown of plasma membrane and organelle membranes Calcification Leakage and enzymatic digestion of cellular
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What are the Morphologic alterations that occur during Apoptosis?
Nuclear chromatin condensation Formation of apoptotic bodies (fragments if nuclei in cytoplasm)
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What does the cellular response to injurious stimuli depend on?
Nature of injury Duration Severity
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What does the consequences of cell injury depend on?
Type, state and adaptability of injured cell
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what are the causes of cell injury?
Ischemia/ hypoxia Chemical agents/ toxins Infectious agents Immune reactions Mutations Nutritional imbalances Physical agents/ radiation Aging
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What are the five mechanisms of cell injury?
ATO depletion ROSs ER Stress/misfolded proteins DNA damage inflammation
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What does the mechanism of ATP depletion cause for cell injury?
ATP Depletion and chemical injury (toxins)
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What does ROS's cause in the body?
Chemcial agents/ toxins and aging
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what does the biomedical mechanism of ER stress and misfolded proteins result in?
Infectious agents, immune reactions, nutritional imbalances, aging altered or dysfunctional proteins or accumulation of proteins that create disorders
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what does the biomedical mechanism of DNA damage result in?
Chemical agents/ toxins, Physical agents/ radiation, aging and mutations
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what does the biomedical mechanism of inflammation result in?
Infectious agents, immune reactions and aging
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How does the accumulation of misfolded proteins trigger apoptosis?
via the intrinsic pathway
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What is the main cause of necrotic death. Explain.
failure of energy-dependent functions --> reversible injury --> necrosis
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How does ATP depletion cause cell injury?
decreased activity of plasma membrane: Na/KATPase, changes I cellular energy metabolism, influx of Ca and reduction of protein synthesis.
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How does ROSs result in cell death?
causes damage to cell membranes, proteins, inactivation of enzymes and nucleic acid damage = increased permeability of membranes = necrosis
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What is autophagy?
Survival mechanism in times of nutrient deprivation in which cell eats its own contents
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Describe the process of autophaghy.
Initiated by nutrient-sending proteins Sequestration of cellular organelles ---> autophagic vacuoles --> vacuoles fuse with lysosomes --> lysosomes digest enclosed material
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What are the main mechanisms that result in cellular aging?
Accumulation of DNA damage and defective DNA repair mechanisms Replicate senescence – reduced capacity of cells to divide Defective protein homeostasis

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