Pathology I Flashcards
What is the major cause of cellular damage
Free radicals
- radiation
- hypoxia/ ischmia
- Toxins
- Inflammatory mediators
- Iron propagated free radicals
- Degraded by catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione,
Reversible cell injury
Mild ATN
Toxic live injury
Severe exercise
irreversible cell injury
holes in cell membrane Long Ca++ influx Mitochondrial loss apoptosis necrosis Mixed
Apoptosis
energy requiring programmed cell death Often normal phenomenon No inflamation. happens in -normal embryology -normal cell turnover -viral infection -cell damage(DNA, unfolded proteins) -Immunologically mediated -hormone withdrawal
Bcl-2
stabilize mitochondria
Bax
destabilizes mitochondria
Caspase cascade
Caspase 8 and 9 leads to caspase 3 cleavage leading to apoptosis.
Too much apoptosis
neurodegenerative disease Ischemic diseases ( MI, stroke)
Too little apoptosis
Neoplasms (p53 mutations very common) (cascases) (cell that should have killed itself, did not) Viral infectins (immune induced apoptosis)
Necrosis
Uncoordinated cell death. cell membrane disrupition. ATP depletion cells often swollen(loss of ion pump) cell content leak causing acute inflammation.
Gangrene
Necrosis of whole anatomical area
Coagulative necrosis
schemia, makes infarct
Liquefactive necrosis
loss of substance in brain or abscess. empty space
Fat necrosis
necrosis in fat
caseous necrosis
necrotizing granulomas. combination of liq and coagulative
Gangrenous necrosis
Necrosis of whole anatomic area
Fatty liver
Alcohol, obesity, starvation, toxins
abnormal glycogen accumulation
In liver in diabetes.
glycogen storage disease
certain tumors
abonormal lipid storage
Lipid storage disease Fabry’s, Gaucher.
In vessels atherosclerosis.
lipofuscin
degraded lipid in lysosomes