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What are the eight classes of cell injury?
Oxygen deprivation, Chemical Agents, Infectious agents, Immunologic reactions, genetic defects, genetic imbalances, physical agents, aging
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What are three effects of reduced ATP during ischemia/hypoxia?
ATP-dependent sodium efflux pump cannot function, ATP dependent Calcium cation efflux transport cannot function, anaerobic glycolysis increases as an attempt to restore the ATP levels
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What is the effect of decreased function of the ATP dependent sodium efflux pump?
increased intracellular sodium cations, decreased potassium ion concentration, influx of water, cellular swelling, decreased protein synthesis
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What is the effect of decreased function of the ATP dependent calcium cation efflux?
activation of ATPases, phospholipases, proteases, endonucleases
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What is the effect of increased Anaerobic glycolysis?
decreased glycogen stores, decreased pH level in the cell, decreased activity of cellular enzymes, detachment of ribosomes
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How does ROS cause cellular injury?
functions as oxidizing agents
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How does production of OFRs and ROS occur?
Incomplete reduction of O2 during respiration, Accepting or donating of electrons by transition metals, Absorption of X-rays, Detoxification or metabolism of chemicals in liver, Enzymes involved in inflammatory processes
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What does ROS react with?
Fatty Acids, Proteins, DNA
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What removes free radicals?
SOD, Glutathione peroxidases, catalase
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What are the five contexts in which apoptosis occurs?
depravation of hormones or GF (menstruation), irreparable DNA damage, accumulation of misfolded proteins (alzheimer's), Immune system development, Embryogenesis (loss of vestigial tail)
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Hypertrophy
increase in cell size but not number caused by increase work load, occurs by increased protein synthesis
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Hyperplasia
increase in cell number but not size (breast growth)
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Atrophy
decrease in cell size but not number caused by decreased work load, proteins degrade and protein synthesis decreases
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Metaplasia
one adult cell type is replaced by another
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where does fat accumulation occur?
hepatocytes
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What causes fat accumulation?
ethanol consumption and diabetes
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what is the effect of fat accumulation?
decreased liver function
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what causes lipofuscin accumulation?
Damage due to ROS or OFR which indicates aging
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what causes Hemosiderin accumulation?
break down of hemoglobin at sites of localized injury or hemmorrhage; associated with systemic overload of iron
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What disease causes dystrophic calcification?
rheumatic heart disease, heart valve becomes sticky causing leakage
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what is dystrophic calcification associated with?
accumulation of Ca associated with necrotic cells
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What is metastatic calcification associated with?
pathologic bone reabsorption
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What causes metastatic calcification?
metastatic cancer
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What is the effect of metastatic calcification?
death of cells of the vasculature, kidneys, lungs, and gastric mucosa
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What are the three factors that contribute to cellular aging?
accumulation of damage (lipofuscin, incorrectly folded proteins/ cross-linked proteins, protein glycosylation, free radical damage), incomplete replication of protein ends by telomerase, reduced regenerative capacity of stem cells
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What are the 5 local signs of acute inflammation?
Heat, redness, swelling, pain, loss of function
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What does changes in vascular diameter lead to?
Vasodilation, increased viscosity, margination
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What causes vascular permeability?
endothelial cell contraction which leads to gaps that leak fluids, direct injury to endothelial cells, leukocyte-dependent endothelial cell damage, increased fluid flow through endothelial cells, leakage from new blood vessels that form at the site of injury
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What are the effects of vascular changes?
release of transudate, release of exudate, edema
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What is margination?
WBC flow along the inner wall of blood cells due to changes in blood flow
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What is rolling?
leukocytes tumble along the wall
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What is transmigration?
leukocyte squeezes through the gaps in edothelial cells
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What on endothelial cells binds to sialyl-lewis X-modified glycoprotein on leukocytes to slow down the leukocyte?
Selectins
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What on Leukocytes binds to ICAM-1 and UCAM on endothelial cells to cause firm binding?
Integrin
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What is chemotaxis?
leukocytes follow a chemoattractant gradient composed of bacterial peptides, complement components, and cytokines to the site of an infection
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What receptor on leukocytes do chemoattractants bind?
7-transmembrane G-protein coupled receptor
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What mediates phagocytosis allowing for regulation?
opsonins
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What is a phagosome?
phagocytic vacuole containing foreign bodies
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What destroys the foreign body in the phagosome?
fusing with a lysosome which contains an oxidative burst
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What are examples of circulating mediators of inflammation?
complement proteins, kinins, and coagulation factors
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How are circulating mediators of inflammation activated?
cleavage
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What cells produce histamine?
mast cells, basophils, and platelets
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When is histamine released?
physical injury, immune reactions, complement binding, neuropeptides, and cytokines
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What effect does histamine have?
arteriolar dialation, increased vascular permeability, endothelial cell contraction; this results in swelling, edema, and congestion
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What does COX metabolize AA into?
Prostaglandins
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Lipoxygenases metabolize AA into?
leukotrienes and lipoxins
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What do PGs cause?
vasodilation and edema; pain and fever
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What type of drugs are COX inhibitors?
NSAIDS
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What do Leukotrienes cause?
vasoconstriction and increased vascular permeability; airway constriction
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What do lipoxins do?
counteract the activity of leukotrienes
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What cleaves Factor XII?
HMWK
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What two systems are triggered by Factor XII activation?
Kinin system, Complement system
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C5b
triggers assembly of MAC
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C3a and C5a
trigger histamine release
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C5a
chemoattractant for WBC
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C3b
obsonin which aids in phagocytosis
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What are the three outcomes of acute inflammation?
restoration to pre-injury state, scaring or fibrosis, chronic inflammation
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What are the three main characteristics of inflammation?
infiltration by macrophages, lymphocytes and plasma cells, continuous tissue destruction by inflammatory cells, extensive tissue repair including angiogenesis and fibrosis
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In what settings do chronic inflammation arise?
viral infections, persistent microbial infections, prolonged exposure to toxic agents, autoimmune diseases
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What role do macrophages play in chronic inflammation?
release proteases, ROS, factors that release and promote inflammation, angiogenesis factors, growth factors stimulating infiltration and fibrosis
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What role do lymphocytes play in chronic inflammation?
produce mediators which activate macrophages
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What role do plasma cells play in chronic inflammation?
Produce antibodies
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What role do eosinophils play in chronic inflammation?
produce major basic protein which is toxic
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What role to Mast cells play in chronic inflammation?
produce histamine and AA metabolites which play a role in anaphylactic shock and allergic reactions
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Labile cells
permanently dividing and capable of regeneration (skin and GI tract)
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Stable Cells
normally nondividing but can divide in response to injury and regenerate themselves (liver, kidney, pancrease, fibroblastic connective tissue cells, endothelial cells)
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Permanent cells
Non dividing cells that are not capable of regeneration (nerves)
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What regulates the cell cycle?
cyclins binding to CDK which then become active and phorphorylate proteins to begin the cell cycle
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Autocrine
targets the same cell that produced the factor
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Paracrine
targets adjacent cells
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synaptic
specialized form of paracrine signaling
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Endocrine signaling
hormone functions at a site distant
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Tyrosine Kinase
EGF--> EGFR-->RAS-->MAP Kinase Cascade-->cyclin transcription
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Interstitial Matrix
amorphous gel between connective tissue
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What is the interstitial matrix composed of?
collagen, elastin, and proteoglycans
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Basement membrane
sits beneath epithelium to provide support
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What is the basement membrane composed of?
type IV collagen, laminin, other adhesive glycoproteins and proteoglycans
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What is the function of the basement membrane?
to define the cell orientation
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What are the four general steps involved in repair by connective tissue or fibrosis?
- �Angiogenesis- Formation of new blood vessels at the site of injury (neovascularization)
- �Migration and proliferation of finroblass to the site of injury
- �Deposition of ECM by the fibroblasts
- �Maturation and remodeling of the fibrosis tissues by macrophages
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What are the six steps of neovascularization?
- �Dilation and increased permeability of the preexisting blood vessel at the site of angiogenesis
- �Proteolysis of ECM to break down the basement membrane
- �Migration of endothelial cells toward a chemoattractant angiogenic stimulus a the site of injury
- �Endothelial cell proliferation just behind the leading edge of migrating cells
- �Once enough cells are present proliferation stops, lumen formation occurs and the endothelial cells self organize into tubes
- �Recruitment and organization of accessory cells to complete the mature vessel
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what molecules regulate neovascularization?
Fibroblast growth factors, vascular endothelial growth factor
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What are the two steps in scar formation?
- �Emigration and proliferation of fibroblasts at site of injury
- �Deposition of ECM components by fibroblast at site of injury
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What factors regulate scar formation?
PDGF, FGF, TGF beta
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What are the six overall steps in cutaneous wound healing?
- �Induction of acute inflammatory response by injury
- �Parenchymal cell regeneration
- �Migration and proliferation of parencymal (epithelial) and connective tissue cells
- �Synthesis of ECM proteins
- �Remodeling of parenchymal elements to restore tissue function
- �Remodeling of connective tissue to restore wound strength
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What are the steps to healing by first intention?
- �Incision fills with clotted blood which forms a fibrin clot and scab
- �Neutrophils migrate to clotted blood
- oThey produce factors the stimulate epithelial cell proliferation at the wound
- oEpithelial cells advance towards eachother and secrete basement membrane componants to pinch of the clot
- oEpithelial cells meet beneath a surface of scab and form a thin layer of epithelium
- �Macrophages replace neutrophils in stromal (subcutaneous) space
- oResolve inner scab and produce factors that promote neovascularization, fibroblast migration, and ECM deposition which leads to restoration of interstitial volume
- �Epithelium (epidermal cells) proliferate and epidermis recovers its normal thickness. Surface scab falls off.
- �Inner scab is resolved and replaced by a fibrous union. Inflammatory processes are resolved.
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