Pathology of wound healing Flashcards
What are the 2 categories of wound healing?
regeneration
repair
What is required for tissue regeneration to occur?
tissue requires ongoing mitotic activity
What is repair aspect of wound healing?
replaces damaged cells with fibrous connective tissue
leaves permanent scar
occurs in non-mitotic tissue and with more severe injuries
What type of repair occurs if the injury is extreme?
fibrous repair
What 2 structural components are tissues and organs divided into?
parenchymal tissue
stromal regions
What are parenchymal cells of tissues and organs?
functional cells of the organ
highly specialised
What are the stromal regions of tissues and organs
support tissue
connective tissue, ECM, blood vessles, nerves
What are examples of parenchymal tissues?
hepatocytes, kidney, tubular cells
What is regeneration?
injured cells replaced by identical new cells
What is repair?
damaged cells replaced by stromal/fibrous scar tissue
What are the 3 categories of tissue according to cell types?
- labile cells
- stable cells
- fixed cells
What can dictate if regeneration or repair will occur?
mitotic activity of teh cell/tissue
What are labile cells?
continuous division
continuously divide
Where would you find labile cells?
surface epithelium (skin, oral cavity, GI tract, uterus)
When does division of stable cells stop?
when growth is complete
still gave potential for division
What are examples f stable cells?
hepatocytes
kidney tubular cells
smooth muscle
Are mitotic cells capable of mitotic diivision?
no
What are damaged fixed cells replaced by?
fibrous scar tissue
Are wound healings by regeneration and fibrous tissue repair controlled by similar regulatory mechanisms?
yes
What does would healing by regeneration And repair involve?
inflammatory mediators
growth factors
ECM
What WBC release inflammatory mediators?
monocytes
macrophages
What are examples of inflammatory mediators?
TNF-a
interleukins
interferons
arachnoid acid
leukotrienes
prostaglandins
What isthe effect of inflammatory mediators?
blood clotting (initial vasodilation)
immune cell infiltration (delayed vasodilation)
phagocytosis of debris and bacteria
new cell growth/fibroblast infiltration
angiogenesis
What cells release growthfactors?
fibroblasts and macrophaes and endothelial cells
neutrophils
What are examples of growth factors?
FGF
EGF
TGF
What is the effect of growth factors?
inflammatory response (cross-talk)
chemotaxis
proliferation and differentiation
generation of ECM
angiogenesis
What is the overall goal of growth factors?
moves process onwards to regeneration/repair damaged region
mature scar
What do endothelial cells, immune cells, fibroblasts secrete?
ECM
What are the different types of ECM?
collagen and elastin
proteoglycans and hyaluronic acid
fibronectin and laminin
What are the fibrous/structural proteins (ECM)?
COLLAGEN AND ELASTON