SM 233a - Metabolic Disease Flashcards
What is zone 5?
Which diseases affect this zone?
Primary trabeculae
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Scurvy
- Osteopetrosis
Which zone of enchondral bone formation is affected by osteogenesis imperfecta?
Zone 5 - Formation of primary bone trabeculae
Osteogenesis imperfecta = inabilty to lay down type I collagen
Which bones are most affected by postmenopausal osteoporosis?
Bones with large surface area
Vertebral body, wrist
Which bone disorder is characterized by “absent or defective osteoclast activity”
Osteopetrosis
Usually due to a mutation in the H+ ATPase
- Cannot acidify the osteoclast resorption pit -> remodelling cannot occur
Which process of bone formation is responsible for pre-pubertal bone lengthening?
Which process of bone formation is responsible for pre-pubertal thickening of the cortex and bone widening?
Lengthening = endchondral ossification
Thickening/widening = intramembranous ossification
Which bone cells produce type I collagen?
Osteoblasts
What are the two types of immature bone?
Osteoid (unmineralized)
Woven bone (mineralized, but not yet mature)
What are the mucopolysaccharidoses?
Closely related diseases caused by mutations in lysosomal enzymes that degrade glycosaminoglycans (GAGs)
- Accumulation of GAGs and cellular damage
- May present as:
- Cardiac valvular disease
- Mental retardation
- Hepatosplenomegaly
- Corneal clouding
- Umbilical/inquinal hernia
- Coarse facies & macroglossia
- Enlarged gingiva
Describe the inheritance of the mucopolysaccharidoses
Autosomal recessive
(Except Hunter syndrome, which is x-linked recessive)
What are the most common cells within bone?
Osteocytes
What kind of bone contains Haversian systems?
Cortical bone
Which disease is characterized by widening of growth plates due to cartilage accumulation?
Rickets in children
- Cartilage accumulates because it cannot be calcified to from woven (immature) bone
- Caused by vitamin D deficiency
(In adults, inability to calcify organic bone matrix is called osteomalacia, also caused by vitamin D deficiency)
Describe the pathogenesis of hyperparathyroidism
- Primary:
- Secondary:
- Primary:
- Increased PTH secretion
- Usually result of parathyroid adenoma
- Secondary:
- Usually results from chronic renal failure
- Cannot resorb Ca2+
- Chronically low serum Ca2+ = constant signal for PTH release
- Results in parathyroid hyperplasia
- Usually results from chronic renal failure
What is zone 2?
Which diseases affect this zone?
Zone of proliferation
- Achondroplasia
- Mucopolysaccharidosis
- Hunter and hurler syndromes
Which bone disease results from mutated p62?
Paget’s disease of bone
What bone disease is caused by mutations in H+ ATPase?
Osteopetrosis
- Inability to acidify the osteoclast resorption pit = cannot demineralize the inorganic component of bone
- > absent or defective osteoclast acitivty
- Abnormally thickened bone
- Fractures
- No osteon formation
What disease causes these x-rays?
Rickets
Due to vitamin D deficiency, cannot calcify cartilage in the zone of provisional calcification (zone 4)
This results in accumulation of cartilage and widening of the growth plate
What is osteoporosis?
Bone that is histologically normal but decreased in quantity
What kind of bone is in picture A?
What kind of bone is in picture B?
- A = Cortical (compact) bone
- Mature
- Collagen is deposited in circumferential lamellae (osteons/haversian systems form)
- B = Cancellous (spongy) bone
- Formed by enchondral ossification
- Collagen deposited in longitudinal lamellae
Which bone disease is shown in this picture?
Paget’s disease
- Abnormal shadowing on x-ray
- Cement lines = improper organizaton
- Bone is mineralized properly, but not laid down in a nice, organized way
What are the two types of mature, lamellar bone?
Cortical (compact) bone (A)
Cancellous (spongy) bone (B)