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Session 7 Flashcards

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What determines the size of a cell population?

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  • Rate of cell proliferation
  • Rate of cell differentiation
  • Rate of cell death by apoptosis
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When is increase in cell population seen?

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  • Increased proliferation

- Decreased cell death

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When does cell proliferation occur?

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Occurs in physiological and pathological conditions

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When can excessive physiological stimulation become pathological?

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Prostatic hypertrophy

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What regulates normal cell proliferation?

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Proto-oncogenes

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How is cell proliferation controlled?

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  • Largely by chemical signs from the microenvironment which either stimulate or inhibit cell proliferation.
  • when a signalling molecule binds to a receptor, it results in the modulation of gene expression
  • Receptors usually in cell membrane but can be in the cytoplasm or nucleus
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Give example of what kind of receptors are found in the cytoplasm or nucleus

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Steroid receptors (mostly activated by sex hormones)

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What can the chemical signals make the cell do?

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  • Survive - resist apoptosis
  • Divide - enter the cell cycle
  • Differentiate - take on specialised form and function
  • Die - undergo apoptosis
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How can a cell population increase its numbers?

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Increased growth occurs by

  • shortening the cell cycle
  • conversion of quiescent cells to proliferating cells by making them enter the cell cycle
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Define mitosis

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Nuclear division

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Define cytokinesis

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Cell division

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Can cells with damaged DNA replicate? Why?

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NO.

  • The cell cycle has important check points
  • If the DNA is damaged or the DNA has not been replicated, the cell will try and correct this issue
  • If the issue can’t be resolved, the cell will be driven to apoptosis
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What is the restriction (R) point?

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  • Most critical checkpoint

- Majority of the cells that pass R pint will complete cell cycle - point of no return

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What happens if the R point is activated?

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  • Delays the cell cycle

- Triggers DNA repair mechanisms or apoptosis via p53

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What is the significance between the R point and cancer?

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The R point is the most commonly altered checkpoint in cancer cells

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What substances control the cell cycle?

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  • Cyclins and cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs)

- CDKs become active by binding with cyclins

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How do these substances control the cell cycle?

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The cyclin binds to the enzyme and activates the CDK. The CDK then phosphorylates the target protein.

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How many times can cells divide?

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Humans - 61.3
This is the Hayflick number - ie the number of times a normal human cell population will divide until cell division stops.

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How can cells adapt?

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  • Hyperplasia
  • Hypertrophy
  • Atrophy
  • Metaplasia
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Define hyperplasia

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Cell increase in number

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Define hypertrophy

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Cells increase in size

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Define atrophy

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Cells become smaller

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Define metaplasia

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Cells are replaced by cells of a different type

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Are cellular adaptations reversible?

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Atrophy is the least reversible

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What is hyperplasia?
Increase in tissue or organ size due to increased cell number
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In which types of tissues does hyperplasia occur?
- Labile or stable tissues
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What causes hyperplasia?
Increased functional demand or hormonal stimulation
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Risk of hyperplasia?
Repeated cell divisions exposes the cell to risk of mutations and neoplasia
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Is hyperplasia reversible?
Yes
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What controls hyperplasia?
- Remains under physiological control | - Can occur secondary to a pathological cause but the proliferation itself is a normal response
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Examples of physiological hyperplasia
- Proliferative endometrium under influence of oestrogen | - Bone marrow produces erythrocytes in response to hypoxia
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Examples of pathological hyperplasia
- Eczema | - Thyroid goitre in iodine deficiency
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What is hypertrophy?
Increase in tissue or organ size due to increased cell size
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In which types of tissues does hypertrophy occur?
- Labile, stable but especially permanent tissues
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What causes hypertrophy to occur?
Increased functional demand or hormonal stimulation
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Examples of physiological hypertrophy?
- Skeletal muscle | - Pregnancy - uterus (hypertrophy + hyperplasia)
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Examples of pathological hypertrophy?
- Hypertension leads to hypertrophy of the cardiac muscle | - Hypertrophy of the smooth muscle in bladder due to prostrate getting bigger
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Why don't athletes get cardiac muscle hypertrophy?
They do - but athletes rest. When you have hypertension - there is no rest for the cardiac muscle.
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What is compensatory hypertrophy?
This is a type of regenerative growth that can take place in a number of human organs after the organ is either damaged, removed or cease to function.
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What is atrophy?
Shrinkage of a tissue or organ due to an acquired decrease in size and/or number of cells.
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What is happening to the cell in atrophy?
- Shrinkage in the size of the cell to a size at which survival is still possible - Reduced structural components of the cell - May eventually result in cell death
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Is tissue atrophy only a result of cell atrophy?
- Organ/tissue atrophy typically due to combination of cellular atrophy and apoptosis - Is reversible but only up to a point
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What happens in tissue atrophy?
Apoptosis
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What examples are there of physiological atrophy?
Ovarian atrophy in post menopausal women
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What examples are there of pathological atrophy?
- Reduced functional demand/workload = atrophy of disuse; muscle atrophy after disuse, reversible with activity - Loss of innervation = denervation atrophy; wasted hand muscles after median nerve damage - Inadequate blood supply; thinning of skin on legs with peripheral vascular disease - Inadequate nutrition; wasting of muscles with malnutrition (brain is the last organ to atrophy in malnutrition) - Loss of endocrine stimuli; breast & reproductive organs - Persistent injury; polymyositis (inflammation of the muscle) - Aging = senile atrophy;brain, heart - Pressure; tissues around an enlarging benign tumour (probably secondary to ischaemia)
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What can cerebral atrophy lead to?
Alzeihmers
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What is metaplasia?
Reversible change of one differentiated cell type to another
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What causes metaplasia?
Altered stem cell differentiation
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Why does metaplasia occur?
May represent adaptive substitution of cells that are sensitive to stress by cell types better able to withstand the adverse environment.
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What does metaplasia often lead to?
Metaplasia sometimes a prelude to dysplasia and cancer
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Where does metaplasia occur?
- Only in labile or stable cell types | - No metaplasia across germ layers
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Examples of metaplasia
- Bronchial pseudostratified ciliated epithelium to stratified squamous epithelium due to effect of cigarette smoke - Stratified squamous epithelium to gastric glandular epithelium with persistent acid reflux (Barrett's oesophagus)
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Does metaplasia predispose to cancer?
- Epithelial metaplasia can be a prelude to dysplasia and cancer Eg - Barrett's epithelium and oesophageal adenocarcinoma - Intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and gastric adenocarcinoma
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What is aphasia?
- Complete failure of a specific tissue or organ to develop - An embryonic developmental disorder - Also used to describe and organ whose cells have ceased to proliferate eg aplasia of bone marrow in aplastic anaemia
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Example of aplasia
- Thymic aplasia - infections and auto-immune problems | - Aplasia of the kidney
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What is hypoplasia?
- Underdevelopment or incomplete development of tissue or organ at embryonic stage, inadequate number of cells - In a spectrum with aplasia - Not opposite of hyperplasia as it is a congenital condition
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Examples of hypoplasia
Renal Breast Testicular in Klinefelter's syndrome Chambers of the heart
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What is involution?
- Overlaps with atrophy | - Normal programmed shrinkage of an organ
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Examples of involution
- Uterus after childbirth | - Thymus in early life
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What is reconstitution?
Replacement of a lost part of the body
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Can reconstitution occur in humans?
If a child clearly cuts the end of their finger, it can grow back.
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What is atresia?
- No orifice | - Congenital imperforation of an opening
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Example of atresia
Anus, vagina and small bowel
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What is dysplasia?
- Abnormal maturation of cells within a tissue - Potentially reversible - Often pre-cancerous condition

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