Reaction to Injury: Cell Injury, Renewal & Repair Flashcards
What are 3 ways in which the cell will react to injury?
- Adaptive (maintain homeostasis)
- Reversible Injury
- Death
What are two ways the cells adapts to stress?
Hyperplasia and hypetrophy
What is hyperplasia? Is It resersible?
Increased cell number in response to increased deman. Reversible if stimulus is removed
What is physiologic hyperplasia?
- Hormonal (lactation change of the breast)
- Compensatory (liver regeneration, wound repair)
What is pathologic Hyperplasia?
- excessive hormone/growth factor stimulation (Endometrial hyperplasia-monorrhagia)
- BHP-chronic androgenic stimulatin
- “fertile soil” for subsequent neoplastic transformation
*can progress to cancer except in BPH
What is hypertrophy?
increased cells (& organ) size
Example or physiologic hypertrophy
- ex. skletal muscle- post mitotic, respond by hypertrophy, each sarcomere can do more work, avoids cell injury
- uterus during fetal development
What are some limitation of physiologic hypertrophy?
- compenstaes for increased workload up to a point
- decompensation= cardiac failure
- In cardiac failures:
*dehenerative myocyte changes/ fibrosis/cell death
*mechanism: insufficient vascular supply (ishemia), structural alteration of sarcomere?
Usually Hyperplasia and hypertrophy happen together. In what tissues is this not true?
Permanent tissues cannot make new cells. only undergo hypertrophy.
ex. cardiomyocytes, SKM, and nerves.
In increase stress the cell wil adapt, but when the stress is removed what can happen to the cells?
Atrophy- shrinkage of cells due to loss of substance after full development
- decrease in cell number (apoptosis)
- decrese in size (ubiquitin protosome degredation of cytoskeleton and autophagy of cellular components)
What is autophagy?
vacuoles within cells and cell components consumed and degraded by lysosome
What are some examples for physiologic vs pathologic atrophy?
physiologic:
- post partum uterus in
Pathologic:
- decrease workload (disuse)
- loss of innervation (SKM)
- Decreased blood supply
- malnutrition/aging/extrinsic compression
What is hypoplasia?
failure to develop fully
what is aplasia?
failure of primordium to develop
What is metaplasia?
**REVERSIBLE, **adaptive change in cell type in response to stress
Give example of metaplasia.
*occurs via reprogramming of stem cells
ex. squamous metaplasia in smokers’ respiratory tract 2 to chronic noxious stimuli, tougher cells, but mucociliary resistance is lost
- can progress to cancer like in Barretts metaplasia.
Examplain what happens in barretts metaplasis.
change to intestinal epithelium. adaptive change because acid reflux. protextive mucous, but get adenocarcenoma of th esophagus.
-change form squamous to columnar non ciliated mucinous epothelia
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What occurs if stress exceeds cells ability to adapt?
injury
hypoxia
reduced o2 availability
-switch to anaerobic glycolysis (lead to lactic acid build up)
ishemia
reduced/inadequate blood flow
-will induce hypoxia
What are the hallmarks of reversible cell damage
-hallmark:
cellular swelling with h2o because Na/K atp pump no working
what is the damage of irreversible cell damage?
membrane damage:
- cytosolic enzyme leak out
- ca enters cell
- cyto c leaks into cytosol= apoptosis
- lysomome membrane damage will leak hydrolytic enzymes into cytosol, which are activated by high calcium
What are some causes of hypoxia?
ishemia, hypoemia, and decrease o2 carrying capacity in blood
What are some causes of ishemia?
- obstruction
- hypotension (blood loss, sepsis, blocks nutrient dilivery, no ox phos or glycosysis)
Which condition famages tissue faster ishemia or hypoxia?
ishemia
What are two pathways in cell death?
- Necrosis: (murder)
- Apoptosis (cell suicide)
necrosis:
follows from irreversible ingury
always pathologic
apoptosis:
preprgrammed cell death
normal part of development
removing ‘bad’ cells (immunity, cancer)
What is the hallmark of cell death? mechanism?
loss of nucleus
what are the nuclear chages in necrosis?
- pyknosis- nucleus shrinks, raisin like
- karyorrheis- breaks into pieces
- karyolysis- used as building blocks, loss of chromatin’s basophilia
Morphology of necrosis
- results from denaturation of cell proteins
- Eosinophilia due to loss of chromatin, RNA (-charged PO4’s bind hematoxylin, acidosis neutralizes, thse so loss of blue staining)