Chapter 2: Cell Injury Flashcards
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What are the factors that affect cell injury?
5 points
Injured tissue type Duration Severity Adaptability Genetic Makeup
What are the 2 examples that adapt to Hypoxia?
Brain tissue
Skeletal muscles
Describe the Brain tissue in response to Hypoxia
Very sensitive
For how long can the Brain tissue adapt to Hypoxia?
2-5 min
For how long can the Skeletal muscles adapt to Hypoxia?
2-6 hours
What are the causes of cell injury?
8 points
Oxygen:
Deprivation
Free radicals
Physical agents Radiation Trauma Infectious Organisms Immunologic Reactions Genetic Derangements Nutritional Imbalances
What are the 2 forms of Oxygen Deprivation?
Hypoxia
Ischemia
What are the 2 types of Physical agents?
Heat
Cold
Describe these 2 Physical agents
Excess
What are the 2 forms of Nutritional Imbalances?
Starvation
Obesity
What is the most important cause of cell injury?
Oxygen deprivation
Define Adaptation
Cell modification
What are the 2 cell factors which are modified in Adaptation?
Morphology
Function
What gave rise to cell Adaptation?
Stress
Describe Adaptation
Reversible
What is a function of Adaptation?
Preserve
What does Adaptation preserves?
Cell viability
What are the 4 types of Adaptations?
Atrophy
Hypertrophy
Hyperplasia
Metaplasia
What are affected in Atrophy?
2 points
Tissue
Or
Organ
What are affected in these tissues or organs?
2 points
Size
Weight
How are the size and weight affected in these tissues or organs?
Decrease
What cause a decrease in size and weight of tissues or organs in Atrophy?
Parenchymal cells
What exactly in the Parenchymal cells causes a decrease in size and weight of tissues or organs in Atrophy?
Component
What are the 3 affected components of the Parenchymal cells that cause this decrease?
Number
Size
Number & Size