what are the causes of cell injury?
hypoxia/ischemia
toxins
infectious agents
immunologic reactions
genetic abnormalities
nutritional imbalances
physical agents
aging
what are the types of cell injury?
cell death, necrosis, apoptosis, other pathways of cell death, and autophagy
what is the morphology in cell injury?
cell swelling = increased permeability in PM –> manifests as pallor, increased turgor, and increased organ weight
fatty change = TG containing lipid vacuoles in cytoplasm
PM blebbing, loss of microvili, mt swelling, hypertrophy of ER, eosinophilia (decrease cytoplasmic RNA)
explain the important of hypertrophy of ER as an adaptive process to cell injury
increases the enzymatic activity of P-450 in hepatocytes
if someone drinks alcohol with phenobarbital drops –> increases activity of P-450 and drops blood concentration to sub therapeutic levels
it can also convert harmless substances into toxins like CCl4
what causes fatty liver?
alcohol, malnutrition, toxins, diabetes, and anoxia
what are the markers of acute vs chronic inflammation?
acute = neutrophils
chronic = lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils
necrosis is always associated with…
inflammation
what are the 3 phenomena of irreversibility?
inability to restore mt function (Ox-Phos and ATP gen)
loss of structure and functions of PM and intracell mem
loss of DNA and chromatin structural integrity
what are the methods of cell death?
accidental = necrosis
regulated = apoptosis
necrosis is ALWAYS an indication of pathologic process but apoptosis can occur in healthy tissues
explain necrosis
form of cell death which cell membranes fall apart and cell enzymes leak out, ultimately digest cell
elicits local host reaction (inflammation)
fail of energy gen in form of ATP because of decrease O2 supply or mt damage –> damage to cell membranes –> leak cell contents –> irreversible damage to cell lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids caused by ROS
fates of necrotic cells = digested by enzymes, disappear, replaced by myelin figures, degrades to FA which bind Ca2+ salts and become calcified
what is the morphology in necrosis?
cytoplasmic changes = increase eosinophilia, moth eaten vacuolated cytoplasm
nuclear changes = pyknosis (shrunken nucleus), karyorrhexis (fragmentation), karyolysis
what is the diff between necrosis and apoptosis?
necrosis = enlarged cell, pyknosis –> karyorrhexis –> karyolysis, DISRUPTED PM, enzymatic digestion (may leak out of cell), FREQUENT INFLAMMATION, pathologic
apoptosis = reduced cell size, fragmentation into nucleosome-suzed fragments, INTACT PM (altered structure, esp orientation of lipids), NO INFLAMMATION, physiologic and pathological
what are the diff morphologic patterns of tissue necrosis?
coagulative necrosis
liquefactive necrosis
gangrenous necrosis
caseous necrosis
fat necrosis
fibrinoid necrosis
injury to cardiac muscle releases…
CK and troponin
injury to hepatic bile duct epi releases…
ALP
injury to hepatocytes releases…
transaminases like ALT and AST
what is the mechanisms of apoptosis?
reg by biochem pathways that control balance of death and survival-inducing signals and ultimately activation of CASPASES
mt path (intrinsic) –> responsible for apoptosis in most physiological and pathologic situations
death receptor path (extrinsic)
clearance of apoptotic cells
explain the intrinsic apoptotic pathway
cell injury, DNA damage, or decreases hormonal stimulation leads to INACTIVATION OF Bcl2
Bcl2 INHIBITS APOPTOSIS and resides in mt membrane and cytoplasm
loss of Bcl2 causes increased mt membrane permeability and leakage of mt proteins will activate CASPASES
explain the extrinsic apoptotic pathway
FAS ligand = binds to FAS receptor (CD95) on target cells –> activate CASPASES
TNF = binds TNF receptor on target cell –> activate CASPASES
explain the cytotoxic CD8+ T cell pathway
perforins secreted by CD8+ T cells make pores in the membrane
granzyme B secreted by CD8+ T cells will enter the pores and activate CASPASES
what happens have caspases is activated?
can cause cytoskeletal dispersion, nuclear fragmentation, and cytoplasmic bleb that will create an apoptotic body with ligands for macrophage cell receptors
what is the morphologic appearance of apoptosis?
chromatin condensation
chromatic aggregation
karyorrhexis
no inflammatory response
fragmentation of DNA into nucleosomes-sizes pieces
what are examples of apoptosis in physiologic states?
embryogenesis = implantation, organogenesis, developmental involution
hormone-dependent involution = uterus, breast, prostate
cell depletion = intestinal villi
deletion of autoreactive T cells in thymus
self-destruction of permanently damaged cells –> inflammatory cells and induced by CD8 T cells
what is necroptosis?
initiated by TNF receptors and other triggers, continued by KINASES, features of both necrosis and apoptosis