TBL 13 Cell Injury Flashcards
When cells are placed under increased stress, there are two outcomes.
- Adapt
2. No longer able to adapt –> cell injury and death
Cell injury could be due to:
- Oxygen deprivation (aka _______)
- Chemical agents
- Infectious agents
- Autoimmunity
- Genetic defects
- Nutritional imbalances
- Physical agents
- Aging
Hypoxia (due to ischaemia, cardiorespi failure, anaemia)
=> insufficient delivery of oxygen to heart muscles
Intracellular systems that are vulnerable to cell injury: (4)
- Cell membrane integrity
- ATP generation
- Protein synthesis
- DNA damage
______ is the shrinkage in cell/organ size by loss of cell substance.
Atrophy
Pernicious anaemia is an ________ disease with fewer crypts and various cell types in the ________ (organ/tissue) due to inflammatory destruction. This leads to loss of body mucosa and thus atrophy.
Pernicious anaemia:
- autoimmune disease
- fewer cell types in gastric mucosa
- inflammatory destruction
- atrophy
_______ is an organ-wide atrophy due to the loss of brain structure.
Sulci are widened, while gyri are shrunken. The ventricles (which are chambers containing CSF) are noticeably (enlarged/smaller).
Dementia
- Gyri shrunken
- Ventricles enlarged
_________ is the increase in cell/organ size.
involves an increase in PROTEIN concentration rather than cytosol
Hypertrophy
Physiological hypertrophy is caused by:
an increase in functional demand or specific hormonal stimulation
Which two organs have increased susceptibility to physiological hypertrophy?
Heart and kidneys
__________ hypertrophy is characterised by tissue dysfunction and increased cellular mortality.
Pathological hypertrophy
_______ is an increase in the number of cells in an organ due to increased cell division.
Hyperplasia
________ hyperplasia allows for tissue and organ regeneration after damage has occurred.
This is common in the ____ and epithelial cells.
Compensatory hyperplasia;
common in the liver
________ hyperplasia occurs in organs which depend on oestrogen.
E.g. Endothelial proliferation during the menstrual cycle in response to oestrogen secretion.
Hormonal hyperplasia
_________ hyperplasia is an abnormal increase in cell division due to excessive stimulation by hormones or growth factors.
E.g. Carcinoma
Pathological hyperplasia
Endometrial proliferation (_________) vs. Endometrial hyperplasia (_________)
Endometrial proliferation - Physiological hyperplasia
Endometrial hyperplasia - Pathological hyperplasia (uterine lining becomes too thick due to excessive secretion of oestrogen without progesterone)
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is when one differentiated adult cell type is replaced by another. It is (reversible/irreversible).
Metaplasia
reversible
__________ is a condition in which the acid reflux causes the non-keratinising _______ epithelium to convert to _______ epithelium lining the oesophagues.
If this persists, __________ may be induced in the epithelium.
Barrett’s oesophagus
Non-keratinising squamous epithelium to convert to columnar epithelium
(metaplasia)
Persist –> Dysplastic pre-cancerous changes induced in the columnar epithelium
________ is when the normal columnar epithelial cells of the cervix transforms into ________ epithelial cells.
Might be due to puberty which leads to a rise in the _______ levels.
Cervical ectropion/eversion
Normal columnar epithelial cells of the cervix convert into stratified squamous epithelium
Rise in oestrogen levels
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ refers to abnormal changes in cellular shape, size and organisation which are strongly associated with carcinogenesis. It is (reversible/irreversible).
Dysplasia
Reversible
What is the difference between dysplastic and cancerous cells?
Dysplastic cells are not yet invading underlying tissues.
They show the genetic and cytological features of malignancy
Reversible cell injury may result in 2 consequences:
- Fatty change (also known as ______)
- Cellular swelling
- Fatty change - Steatosis
2. Cellular swelling
______ refers to the abnormal retention of lipids within the cells. This is due to the impairment of _______ and ______, causing excess lipid to accumulate in vesicles which displace the cytoplasm.
Steatosis (fatty change)
impairment of lipogenesis and lipolysis
Persistent steatosis may lead to ballooning degeneration of cells. This is due to damage to _________ causing fluid to flow into the cells, and due to failure of _____ export resulting in accumulation inside the cytoplasm.
Ballooning degeneration of cells:
- Plasma membrane damage
- Failure of protein export
Irreversible cell injury results in ________ or ________.
necrosis or apoptosis
________ necrosis is characterised by the formation of gelatinous substance in dead tissues that maintains the tissue structure.
Coagulative necrosis
outline of cells can still be observed
In myocardial infarction, _______ necrosis occurs, such that the cellular structure of cardiomyocytes can still be observed though they are dead and anucleate.
coagulative necrosis
_________ necrosis is charcterised by the digestion of dead cells to form a viscous, liquid mass. (abscess formation)
Liquefactive necrosis
Liquefactive necrosis often occur in _______ and _____ infections as they stimulate inflammatory responses.
bacterial and fungal infections
Hypoxic infarcts in the brain tissue usually presents as ________ necrosis as the brain contains little connective tissue to hold the cells in place. Cells contain large amounts of digestive enzymes and lipids, thus it is easy for cells to be digested by own enzymes.
Liquefactive necrosis (for old cerebral infarct)
_______ necrosis is characterised by amorphous granular debris enclosed within a distinctive inflammatory border. It is a combination of coagulative and liquefactive necrosis.
Caseous necrosis
__________ will form a TB lesion that is made up of a central caseous necrosis and surrounded by epithelioid macrophages.
Pulmonary tuberculosis
____ necrosis (Balser’s necrosis) is the specialised necrosis of fat tissue due to action of _________ on fatty tissues such as pancreas.
Fat necrosis - action of activated lipases on fatty tissues
In _________, there is abnormal activation of digestive enzymes within the pancreas, which leak out into the peritoneal cavity and liquefy the membrane by splitting triglycerides into fatty acids. The lesions produced can bind ______ to produce deposits (gritty white spots).
Acute pancreatitis (fat necrosis)
Lesions bind calcium to form calcium deposits.
_______ is the abnormal increase in interstitial fluid volume which surrounds cells of various tissues. This is due to the imbalance of the two forces that pushes fluid out into the IF.
Oedema
Water volume is usually very closely regulated by two forces that are in balance to each other.
- Colloid osmotic pressure (plasma proteins in the blood)
2. Vascular hydrostatic pressure
__________ is when fluid first accumulates in the interstitial spaces, then spills over into the alveolar spaces.
Pulmonary oedema
Pulmonary oedema is often caused by:
Left ventricular failure
(heart is unable to pump blood to the rest of the body from the left ventricle –> blood backs up to the lungs and leads to increased hydrostatic pressure in pulmonary capillary)
Main symptoms of pulmonary oedema are:
1. Breathlessness (known as ______)
- Breathlessness worse when lying flat (_________)
- Dyspnoea
2. Orthopnoea
_______ is a complication of pulmonary oedema as the fluid allows for bacterial growth.
Pneumonia
________ oedema is seen in brain tissues surrounding the intracranial lesions.
Cerebral oedema
Cerebral oedema is often caused by a disruption to _______.
This causes a breakdown of the tight endothelial junctions which make up the ________ and allows the plasma proteins and fluid to penetrate the extracellular space.
Disruption to cerebral capillaries
Breakdown of tight endothelial junction which make up the blood brain barrier
Cerebral oedema can cause a rise in the ________, which may lead to brain herniation and death.
Rise in the intracranial pressure (ICP)
Generalised oedema refers to the widespread accumulation of interstitial fluids in ________ and ________ around the entire body.
subcutaneous tissues and serous cavities
Generalised oedema often presents as _______.
pitting oedema at the ankles and feet
The key pathophysiological factor behind the formation of generalised oedema is
the activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone pathway
_________ is an adrenal hormone which is essential for sodium retention in the body.
In oedema, there is impaired (hormone) escape resulting in reduced sodium retention.
Aldosterone
Common causes of generalised oedema include:
- Right ventricular failure
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Hepatic failure
Explain how each of them causes generalised oedema.
- RV failure - causes backing of blood into the lower parts of the body due to gravitational forces => higher hydrostatic pressure
- Nephrotic syndrome - loss of plasma proteins from the blood into the urine, resulting in lowered colloid osmotic pressure.
- Hepatic failure - Liver failure leads to inability to make sufficient plasma proteins, resulting in lowered colloid osmotic pressure of the blood.