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1
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What is the difference between apoptosis and necrosis

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necrosis is a pathological process which effects solid masses of tissue and induces a inflammatory response
apoptosis is basically programmed cell death but different - It causes the fragmentation of DNA

2
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what enzymes mediate the DNA fragmentation process

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ICAD - inhibitor of caspase activated DNase0

PARP - Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase

3
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what is required for the recognition by macrophages and non-professional phagocytes

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clearance by apoptotic cells by macrophages requires reorganisation of phosphatidylserine

4
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what are some extrinsic causes of apoptosis

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receptor interaction
T cells
cytoplasmic signals
caspase cascade

5
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what are some intrinsic causes of apoptosis

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stress 
metabolic stress 
endogenous activation 
mitochondrial involvement 
DNA damage and p53
6
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examples of extrinsic causes

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TNF Family
Fas CD95
Inflammation

7
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T cell mediated inducement of apoptosis

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involves perforin and granzymes and cytoplasmic activation

this occurs in viral infection and transplantation rejection

8
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anoikins

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  • Death after losing contact with basement membrane/extra cellular matrix
  • Apoptosis morphology
9
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Pyroptosis

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• Microbial trigger eg Salmonella • Pattern recognition receptors
– NOD like and Toll like receptors
• Some features similar to both apoptosis and
necrosis
– Caspase 1 activation, not caspase 3
– Nuclear fragmentation but not cytoplasmic blebbing
– Pro-inflammatory

10
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examples of where apoptosis has gone wrong

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Autoimmune disease Cancer
Neurodegeneration

• Can pathway components be drug targets?
– Bcl2 in lymphoma
– caspase 3 in Alzheimer Disease
– IAP in cancer

11
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caspase which destroys genetic information

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cleave ICAD

12
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caspase that prevents DNA repair

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cleave PARP

13
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caspase which causes the breakdown of nuclear architecture

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leave LAMIN

14
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Caspase which causes the breakdown of cytoplasmic architecture

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cleave KERATIN

15
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Abnormal Bcl2 expression can contribute to

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cancer

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