Unit 2a Flashcards
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Major causes (etiologies) of cell injury (7)
1) Physical agents: trauma/heat/electric shock/radiation/aging…
2) Chemical and drugs: drug toxicity, poisoning
3) Infection: pathogenic bacteria, virus, fungi, protozoa
4) Immunologic reactions: anaphylaxis, autoimmunity
5) Genetic derangement: phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis
6) Nutritional imbalance: atherosclerosis, protein and vitamin deficient
7) Hypoxia
Human diseases occur due to …
cell / tissue injury
Major mechanisms of cell injury (6)
1) ATP depletion
2) Mitochondrial damage
3) Influx of calcium
4) Accumulation of ROS
5) Increased permeability of cellular membranes
6) Accumulation of damaged DNA and misfolded proteins
ATP depletion –> ________, ________ and _________
1) Decrease in Na+ pump activity
→ influx Ca2+, H2O, and Na+ and efflux of K+ → ER swelling, cellular swelling, loss of microvilli, blebs
2) Increase in anaerobic glycolysis
→ decrease glycogen, increase in lactic acid, decrease in pH → clumping of nuclear chromatin
3) Detachment of ribosomes –> decreased protein synthesis
ATP is produced via ___________ or _________
oxidative phosphorylation of ADP in mitochondria OR glycolytic pathway in absence of O2
Tissues with greater _________ are better able to withstand ischemic injury
glycolytic capacity
Susceptibility of specific cells to ischemic injury:
- Neurons
- Cardiac myocytes, hepatocytes, renal epithelium
- Cells of soft tissue, skin, skeletal muscle
Neurons = 3-5 min
Cardiac myocytes, hepatocytes, renal epithelium = 30 min - 2 hr
Cells of soft tissue, skin, skeletal muscle = many hours
Failure of oxidative phosphorylation –> (4)
1) ATP depletion
2) Formation of ROS
3) Formation of high-conductance channel (mitochondrial permeability transition pore) and loss of membrane potential
4) Release of proteins that activate apoptosis
Influx of calcium and cell injury
Ordinarily - big calcium gradient between extra and intracellular Ca2+
Ischemia and toxins → release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores and increased influx across plasma membrane → membrane damage, nuclear damage, decreased ATP
Two major pathways to accumulate ROS
1) during cells redox reactions during normal mitochondrial respiration
2) Phagocytic leukocytes (neutrophils and macrophages)
How are ROS produced during mitochondrial respiration?
1) Fenton Reaction
O2 → superoxide (O2-) → H2O2 + Fe++ → OH* + OH-
2)
O2 → superoxide + NO → peroxynitrite ONOO-
Superoxide Dismutase (SOD)
removes superoxide
Converts superoxide to H2O2 (however, this reaction can also occur spontaneously)
Catalase and Glutathione Peroxidase
decomposes hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to H2O
Phagocytic leukocytes produce ROS via…
oxidative burst –> peroxynitrite, hypochlorite
Consequences of free radicals (3)
1) Damage determined by rate of production vs. rate of removal
2) Increased production or ineffective scavenging → oxidative stress
3) Removal via spontaneous decay and specialized enzymatic systems
Pathologic effects of ROS (3)
Lipid peroxidation → membrane damage
Protein modification → breakdown, misfolding
DNA damage → mutations
Important sites of membrane damage include _______, _______ and _______
mitochondria, plasma membrane, lysosome
Reversible cell injury includes _______ and ________
cellular swelling
fatty change
Reversible cell injury
- Recoverable if damaging stimulus removed
- Injury has not progressed to severe membrane damage and nuclear dissolution
- CAN result in IRREVERSIBLE injury if changes persist (especially severe mitochondria damage and disturbances in membrane function)
Cellular swelling
failure of energy dependent ion pumps in plasma membrane → disrupted ionic and fluid homeostasis
Fatty change
- accumulation of lipid vacuoles WITHIN cytoplasm of cells (typically those participating in fat metabolism - hepatocytes, myocardial cells, etc.)
- Due to increased entry and synthesis of free fatty acids and decreased fatty acid oxidation
- NOT SPECIFIC FOR INJURY type (could be alcoholic liver disease, NAFLD, etc.)
Intracellular changes of reversibly damaged cell include…(4)
1) plasma membrane alteration
2) mitochondrial changes
3) Dilate of ER with detachment of ribosomes
4) Nuclear alterations (with clumping of chromatin)
Plasma membrane alterations due to cell injury can cause…
blebbing (bulging), blunting, distortion of microvilli, loosening of intercellular attachments
Myelin figures
phospholipid masses derived from damaged cellular membranes