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Cellular adaptation to stress and toxic injury Flashcards

1
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What is hypoxia?

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Insufficient oxygen levels in body tissues

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What is ischaemia?

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Reduced or restricted blood flow to part of body, which results in hypoxia of that area

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How can ischaemia damage cells?

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Less oxygen supplied to mitochondria, so less ATP is produced by oxidative phosphorylation, so cell has less energy

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What 2 conditions can cause oxygen starvation of tissues?

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Anaemia, carbon monoxide poisoning

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How can anaemia cause oxygen starvation?

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Low healthy RBC count, so less oxygen is carried to tissues

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How can carbon monoxide poisoning cause oxygen starvation?

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Carbon monoxide displaces oxygen bound to haemoglobin, as CO has a higher affinity for haemoglobin

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Give 6 examples of physical agents that damage cells?

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Radiation, electric shock, atmospheric pressure changes, temperature extremes, mechanical trauma

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Give 3 examples of chemical agents that damage cells?

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Alcohol, cyanide, arsenic

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Give 4 examples of infectious agents that damage cells?

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Viruses, parasites, bacteria, fungi

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How can the immune system damage own cells?

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Autoimmune diseases attack own cells

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Give an example of how genetic abnormalities can damage cells?

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Mutation of haemoglobin gene causes sickle cell anaemia

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Give 3 examples of nutrition imbalance that damages cells?

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Starvation, excess nutrition, vitamin deficiency

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What is the general response of normal cells in a stressful environment?

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Adapt to undergo reversible injury

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What is cellular adaptation?

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Reversible changes in size, number, phenotype, metabolic activity, function in response to changes in the environment

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Give 4 methods of cellular adaptation?

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Hypertrophy, hyperplasia, metaplasia, atrophy

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What is hypertrophy?

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Increase in the size of cells, resulting in increase in size of affected organ

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How do hypertrophic cells increase their size?

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Synthesise more intracellular structural components

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Why do cells undergo hypertrophy?

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They have limited ability to divide, so cannot respond by hyperplasia, as hyperplasia requires cell proliferation to increase organ size

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When do muscle cells undergo hypertrophy?

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Increased workload

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What are the 2 types of hypertrophy?

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Pathological, physiological

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21
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Give an example of physiological hypertrophy?

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uterus size increases in response to pregnancy

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Give an example of pathological hypertrophy?

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Cardiac muscle size increases due to high bp created by damaged heart valves

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What is hyperplasia?

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Increase in number of cells by excessive cell division, in an organ/tissue in response to a stimulus

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Give 2 types of stimuli that trigger hyperplasia?

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Hormones, growth factors

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What ability must cells have to undergo hyperplasia?

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Ability to divide

26
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Why is hyperplasia a reversible change?

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If stimulus is removed, hyperplasia will regress

27
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What are the 2 types of hyperplasia?

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Pathological, physiological

28
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Give an example of physiological hyperplasia?

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Breast glands undergo hyperplasia to increase milk production

29
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Why does pathological hyperplasia occur?

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Inappropriate/excessive action of hormones/growth factors on target cells

30
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How do growth factors stimulate mature cells undergoing pathological hyperplasia?

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Mature cells proliferate and stop if growth factors are removed

31
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How do growth factors stimulate stem cells?

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Increase output of new cells

32
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Why does endometrial hyperplasia occur, and how does it present in a patient?

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Prolonged stimulation of endometrium by oestrogen, presents as abnormal bleeding from uterus

33
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What is endometrial hyperplasia often a precursor of?

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Endometrial cancer

34
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What hormone stimulates prostatic hyperplasia in men?

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Androgen

35
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What other type of cellular adaptation can hyperplasia occur with?

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Hypertrophy

36
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What is metaplasia?

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Differentiated cell type is reprogrammed by stem cells into replacement cell type which is better suited to adverse environmental conditions

37
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What condition arises from prolonged metaplastic stimuli, and what type of tissue does it effect?

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Dysplasia, which causes disordered growth in epithelium

38
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Is dysplasia reversible?

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Potentially reversible if stimulus is removed in dysplasia early stages

39
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If dysplasia continues, what condition can develop?

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Invasive carcinoma

40
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What chemical agent is the stimulus of squamous metaplasia in bronchioles?

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Cigarette smoke

41
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What nutrition imbalance factor is a stimulus of squamous metaplasia in bronchioles?

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Vitamin A deficiency

42
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How does cigarette smoke/Vitamin A deficiency stimulate metaplastic change in bronchioles?

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Columnar cells of bronchiole lining are changed into metaplastic squamous cells

43
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What develops from metaplastic squamous epithelium lining bronchioles if the patient keeps smoking?

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Disordered growth of metaplastic squamous epithelium develops into invasive squamous cell carcinoma

44
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What stimulates intestinal metaplasia in lower oesophagus?

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Acid reflux from stomach

45
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What cells undergo metaplastic change in intestinal metaplasia of lower oesophagus?

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Squamous epithelium lining changes into metaplastic goblet cells

46
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What develops from metaplasia of lower oesophagus if the patient keeps having acid reflux?

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Invasive adenocarcinoma

47
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What is atrophy?

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Reduction in size and number of cells which causes reduction of organ/tissue size

48
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How do cells decrease their size?

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Organelles shrink in size

49
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What pathway is activated in atrophy?

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Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway

50
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Where does ubiquitin attach to the target protein in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in atrophy?

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Amino group of side chain of lysine residue

51
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When additional ubiquitins attach to the target protein in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, what chain is formed?

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Multiubiquitin chain

52
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What is the name of a protein attached to a multiubiquitin chain?

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Polyubiquitinated protein

53
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How does autophagy occur in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway?

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Proteasome recognises and degrades the polyubiquitinated protein, which is autophagy as the cell is digesting its own proteins

54
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What are the 2 types of atrophy?

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Pathological, physiological

55
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How can bed rest cause disuse atrophy?

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lack of movement causes skeletal muscle atrophy, which is a type of disuse atrophy

56
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What bone condition can disuse atrophy cause?

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Osteoporosis

57
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How can denervation atrophy affect cell function?

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Denervation atrophy damages nerve supply, which affects cell metabolism?

58
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How does chronic low blood supply cause pathological atrophy?

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Organ compensates for low blood supply by decreasing cells so that they all have enough oxygen

59
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How can malnutrition cause skeletal muscle atrophy?

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When fat is depleted, skeletal muscle is used as nutrition source instead, causes muscle wasting and cachexia (chronic weakening)

60
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Give an example of how loss of endocrine stimulation causes atrophy?

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Lack of oestrogen causes atrophy of female genital tract and breast

61
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How can tumours cause pressure atrophy?

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Tumour presses and constricts blood supply to tissues

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