Exam 3/Lecture 3 Flashcards
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Bone
- What does it provide?
- What type of bone is mechanical strength?
- How is bone an endocrine organ?
- What subserves endocrine functions?
- Bone undergoes what?
- What do diseases include?
- Provides mechanical integrity
- Cortical bone mechanical strength
- Endocrine organs involved in calcium homeostasis & hematopoiesis
- Trabecular bone subserves endocrine functions
- Bone undergoes constant remodeling by osteoblasts & osteoclasts
- Diseases include genetic bone disease, bone fractures, metabolic bone disease and bone tumors
bone remodeling
- Bone undergoes constant remodeling via what?
- How is it initated by? Then triggers what?
- Increased RANKL expression by what?
- What induces differentiation/activation into mature osteoclasts?
- What do Osteoprotegerins do?
- Bone undergoes constant remodeling via RANK/RANKL signaling
- Initiated by low serum Ca++ levels, trigger PTH (bone as body’s Ca++ reservoir)
- Increased RANKL expression by osteocytes and osteoblasts
- Interaction of membrane bound or soluble RANKL with RANK-expressing osteoclast precursor cells induces differentiation/activation into mature osteoclasts
- Osteoprotegerin (OPG) interferes with RANK/RANKL interaction to inhibit bone degradation
What are some examples of Osteoprotegerins?
17-B oestradiol, IL-4 and TGF-B
What drives teh RANK/RANKL progress?
Vitamin D3, PGE2, PTH, TNFa, IL-1,-11,-17
Achondroplasia:
1. What type of bone disease?
2. What does it present as?
3. How common it is?
4. How many births?
5. Patients present clinically as what?
6. Most frequently inherited as what?
- Congenital/genetic bone disease
- These result in abnormal bone formation, growth and remodeling
- Achondroplasia is most common type of dwarfism-> Most genetic bone diseases present in infancy or early childhood
- Incidence of 1:15,000- 40,000
- Patients present clinically as achondroplastic dwarfs
- Most frequently inherited as autosomal dominant
What is the mutation in Achondroplasia? What does this cause?
Mutations in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 gene prevent tyrosine kinase activity & endochondral ossification
In patients with achondroplasia, what is there an increase risk of? Why?
- Cartilage growth plates are disorganized with increases risk for fractures
- Most predominantly evidenced in long bone
- Congenital/Genetic Bone Disease
- Results from abnormalities in α1 or α2 chains of type I collagen
- Incidence of 1:16,000
- Not enough bone made
- Often referred to as brittle bone disease
Osteogenesis imperfecta:
* leads to what?
* Some children with osteogenesis imperfects often do what?
* Most are inherited how?
- Leads to bones with very low tensile strength that are easily fractured
- Some children with osteogenesis imperfecta often die in infancy as a result of multiple fractures
- Various subtypes with broad range of clinical manifestations, but most are inherited in autosomal dominant fashion
Osteopetrosis:
* What type of bone disease?
* Aberrations (reductions) in what?
* Exact etiology?
* What is going on?
* Bone is made, but what is not happening?
- Congenital/genetic bone disease
- Aberrations (reductions) in osteoclast function or osteoclast differentiation (More blast than clasts)
- Exact etiology is unknown
- Defective bone resorption
- Bone is made, but not remodeled or resorbed, net gain of bone material
Petrosis=stone
Osteopetrosis:
* What are the subtypes?
* Clinically manifests as what?
* Associated with that?
- Most frequent subtypes are autosomal dominant with mild clinical features or autosomal recessive with infantile lethality
- Clinically manifests as frequent bone fractures as well as nerve palsies (compression)-> vertebrae so close foreman and causes damage, recurrent infection(decrease BM), hepatosplenomegaly
– Associated with reduced bone marrow space (arrows)
Bone usually have a little give but in this case, it does not so fractures happen
When does bone remodeling occur?
- Bone remodeling is a constant process throughout life
Acquired Metabolic Bone Disease
Metabolic bone disease includes what?
* Common metabolic bone diseases include ?
- Metabolic bone disease includes abnormalities in endocrine function of bone in calcium homeostasis as well as abnormalities of mineral deposition.
- Common metabolic bone diseases include osteomalacia, osteoporosis, osteitis deformans, and hyperparathyroidism.
Osteomalacia:
* What is it defective in?
* Can result from what?
- Defective mineralization of newly formed osteoid producing soft bone
- Can result from a deficiency of vitamin D resulting in abnormal bone mineralization leading to characteristic skeletal deformities of rickets
Osteomalacia:
* What produces soft bones?
* What replaces osteoid bone?
* Patients are at risk for what?
- Defective mineralization of newly formed osteoid produces soft bone
- Followed by replacement of osteoid bone with fibrosis
- Patients at increased risk for fractures
What is an extremely common disease, most severe in postmenopausal women
Osteoporosis
What is osteoporosis?
When is peak bone mass? When does bone loss begin?
How can bone loss be accelerate?
- Progressive bone loss after menopause (reduced estrogen) sets stage for pathologic fractures in multiple bones.
- Peak bone mass in young adulthood, 0.5% bone loss/year begins in 3rd-4th decade
- Progressive loss of bone mineral after young adulthood can be accelerated by inactivity, nutritional deficiency and other factors.
Osteoporosis:
* What do patients have an unequal of?
* Osteoporosis affects mostly which bone?
* What is very commone?
* What can be helpful
* What are genetic risk factors?
- Patients have an unequal balance between osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity leading to decreased new bone formation
- Osteoporosis especially affects trabecular bone
- Compression fractures of vertebrae are very common in osteoporosis.
- Estrogen replacement and calcium supplementation may be helpful, but not sufficient to reverse bone loss.
- Genetic risk factors include polymorphisms in vitamin D receptor
Pharmacologic agents for osteoporosis inhibit what? What does it lead to?
Pharmacologic agents for osteoporosis inhibit osteoclastic/activate osteoblastic activity, however, lead to irregular bone deposition often creating brittle bone
What is this?
What is abnormal in paget’s disease (osteitis deformans)
Abnormality of bone remodeling resulting in overall gain of (abnormal) bone
What are the stages and phase of paget’s disease?
- Phases of pronounced resorption (osteolytic stage), then pronounced bone formation (osteoclastic- osteoblastic stage), then loss of cellular activity (osteosclerotic stage)
- Lytic phase (dashed arrows) transitions to new bone formation that has increased bone density (overall gain of bone material), but structurally weaker
Paget’s disease:
* Histo presented as?
* Can present as what?
* Associated with that?
* What does pagets increase the risk of?
- Histologically, presents with mosaic cement lines (black arrows) shaped like jigsaw puzzle
- Can present as monostotic or polyostotic
- Associated with increased serum levels of alkaline phosphatase
- Paget’s increase risk for osteosarcoma (1% pts), but disease usually follows a benign course-> because you have fast bursts and pressures of precursors
- May have a viral origin
Hyperparathyroidism:
What is does PTH do?
What results in increased osteoclastic activity?
What is hyperparathyroidism in nature? What does it promote?
- PTH normally maintains Ca++ homeostasis (increased bone resorption, increased Ca++ resorption in kidney, increased urinary excretion of P, increased Vit D synthesis)
- Increased secretion of parathyroid hormone by parathyroid glands results in increased osteoclastic activity with increased resorption and release of calcium into circulation.
- Hyperparathyroidism is primary (tumor) or secondary (cancer cells) in nature, promoting osteoclast activity