Cell injury Flashcards
Defenition of cell injury
**A Variety of stresses the cell encounters as a change in external or internal environment causing morphological &/or functional chnages. **
The cellular response depends on ……… & ……..
1- Type of cell or tissue involved
2- extent & type of injury
What are types of cellular responses ?
1. Cellular adaptations
2. reversible Cell injury
3. Irreversible CI
4. Intracellular accumulations
In reversible CI, when the stress is …… to ……., the cell ……..
mild
moderate
may recover
In Irreversible CI, the stress is ……………, ………. may occur
severe, persistent
cell death (necrosis // Apotosis
Def of Cellular addaptations
def & types
Reversible changes in size, type, phenotype, metabolic activity or functions of cell in response to a stimuli (chnage in the environment).
There are 4 types :
1. Hypertrophy
2. Atrophy
3. Hyperplasia
4. Metaplasia
diff betw physiologic adaptations & Pathologic ones
- **Physiologic adaptations : ** represent responses of cell to normal stimulations as hormones or endogenous chemical mediators
- Pathologic Adaptations :represent responses of cell to stress allowing to modulate its structure & functions => escape injury.
Def of Atrophy
decrease in size of a normal organ due to decrease in size of its cells w/ or w/o decrease in nb of cells.
Diff betw Atrophy // Aplasia // Agenesis
- **Atrophy : **decrease in size of a normal organ due to decrease in size of its cells w/ or w/o decrease in nb of cells.
- **Aplasia : **extreme failure of develop. so only rudimentary tissue is present.
- **Agenesis : **Complete absence of an organ.
Atrophic cells are dead ?
No, they have diminished function but not dead.
…………. death may be induced by the same signals as Atrophy leading to decrease in nb.
Apoptotic death
EX of Physiologic Atrophy
Atrophy of
1. Lymphoid tissue, thymus, appendix
2. Brain & Heart w/ aging
3. gonads after menopause
EX of Pathologic Atrophy
- Disuse Atrophy: wasting of muscles of the limb immobilized
- Neuropathic Atrophy: Neuropathic due to loss of innervation => wasting of muscles (ex : traumatic nerve injury & poliomyelitis)
- Endocrine Atrophy: Loss of trophic hormones (hormones secreted by pituitary) (EX: hypopituitarism may lead to atrophy of thyroid, adrenal, gonads)
- Pressure Atrophy: Large aortic aneurysm => atrophy of vertebral bodies not intervertebral discs.
- Atrophy due to lack of nutrients: severe protein-calorie malnutrition (EX: Marasmus), => muscle atrophy.
disuse atrophy: not using muscles enough, body start break them down
Atrophy Pathogenesis (mechanism by w the lesions are produced)
Decrease in cells size due to :
decrease in protein synthesis
Increase in protein degradation
Atrophy Morphologic features
- Organ is small as cells are small due to reduction in cell organelles (mitochondira, ER, Myofil.)
- Numerous Autophagic vacuoles w/ cell debris => residual bodies EX: lipofuscin pigment granules in brown atrophy
Def of Hypertrophy
Increase in size of organ due to increase in size of its cells
Occurs in Non dividing cells (permenant cells)
EX of Physiologic Hypertrophy :
- Uterine smooth muscle hypertrophy during pregnancy (may be accompainied by Hyperplasia)
- Skeletal m. in athletes
EX of Pathologic Hypertrophy :
Hypertrophic left ventricle: in systemic Hypertension or Reduced aortic valve outflow