Msk Flashcards
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2 main responses of peripheral nerve injury determined by target
Schwann-segmental demyelination -loss of myelin
Axon-axonal degeneration primary involvement of neuron and its axon, axonal degeneration may be followed by axonal regenerationa nd reinervation of muscle
Enervation atrophy
Follows loss of axon
Myopathy
Primary abnormality of msucle fiber
Segmental demyelination
Schwann cell damage to myelin sheath-Guillain barre
No primary abnormality of axon
Not affect all schwann cells
Denuded axon
Stimulus for demyelination
Newly myelinated internodes
Shorter than normal
Onion bulbs
Concentric layers of schwann cytoplasm and redundant basement membrane surrounding thinly myelinated axon
Traumatic neuroma
Failure of the outgrowing axons to find their distal target can make pseudotumor termed traumatic neuroma -a non neoplastic haphazard whirled proliferation of axonal processes and associated schwann cells that results in.a painful nodule-haphazard axons, schwann cells and connective tissue
Axonal degeneration
Axonal degeneration-result of primary destruction of axon with secondary disintegration of myelin sheath
Axon damage
Focal or generalized affecting whole neuron body (neuronopathy) or its axon (axonopathy)
Wallerian degeneration
Focal lesion distal portion
Myelin ovoids
Schwann cells catabolize myelin and later engulf axon fragments, producing small oval compartments
Then macrophages recruited
Proximal stump of severed nerve shows degenerative changes in most distal 2-3 internodes, then undergoes regeneration
Slowly evolving neuronopathies or axonopathies, scant evidence of axonal degeneration bc few fibers effecting at ant one time
Enervation atrophy
Axonal degeneration->muscle fibers in motor unit lose neural input and undergo denigration atrophy
Angulated fibers
Atrophic fibers are smaller and triangular shape when enervation atrophy
Target fibers
Rounded zone of disorganized myofibers in center fiber
How do we get growth of regenerating fibers: where does guide come from
Schwann cells vacated by degenerating axons
Regenerating cluster
Multiple closely aggregated thinly myelinated small caliber axons
Reinnervation fo skeletal muscle changes its composition, altering distribution of
The 2 major fiber tubes
__ __ determines fiber type; all muscle fibers of a single unit are the same type
Motor neuron
Fibers of a single unit are distributed across the muscle ___ __
Checkerboard pattern
Axons of unaffected neighboring motor unit extend sprouts to __ and __ ___ and incorporate them into the _____
Reinnervate
Denervated myocytes
Healthy motor unit
Newly adopted reinnervated fibers assume fiber type of their __ __
New siblings
Type grouping
Patch of contiguous myocytes having same histochemical type
Group atrophy
Type group becomes denervated