POM Lecture 1 Flashcards
What are the causes of cell stress and injury?
Physical Injury Chemical Injury Biological causes Immunologic Injury Genetic Derangements Nutritional Imbalance
Cell Suicide
Apoptosis
Cell Murder
Oncosis/Necrosis
Why is there depletion of ATP during cell injury?
Depletion of Oxygen
Damage to Enzymes
Damage to mitochondria
What are the responses due to an injurious stimulous
Depletion of ATP
Membrane Damage
Increase of Intracellular Calcium
Reactive Oxygen species
Low energy for sodium pumps means?
Influx intracellularly of sodium and water, cells and organelles swell
Low energy for Calcium pumps means?
influx of calcium into the cytosol, inappropriate activation of calcium dependent channels. damage to cellular components.
How can cell membrane damage occur?
Directly via free radicals,
or hypoxia (stress due to a lack of oxygen),
or due to a membrane targeting bacteria toxin
or following failure of plasma membrane Calcium pump
Influx of calcium activates what destructive calcium dependent enzymes?
ATPases
Phospholipases
Proteases
Endonucleases
Oxidative stress
the accumulation of free radicals
Reactive Oxygen species
free radicals generated during cell injury,
Eg) O2 H2 NO
Heat Shock Factors
Transcription factors that induce the transcription of Heat Shock Proteins.
Heat shock Proteins
Proteins that are molecular chaperones, assist repair of damaged proteins.
Stress Kinases
Are released following stress or injury, initiate signalling cascades that co-ordinate the cells response to damage
What is bad about ATP depletion and how does this occur?
There is less energy for ATP membrane pumps (ionic/osmotic homeostasis ruined). Less energy for protein synthesis and DNA/protein repair.
this occurs during cell injury due to a lack of O2, enzyme or mitochondrial damage