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What is the primary purpose of studying pathology?
Which of the following is a classification of injurious stimuli associated with cell injury?
Which statement about cell adaptation is true?
What does hypoxia refer to in the context of cell injury?
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Which of the following is NOT classified as an injurious stimulus affecting cells?
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What is the primary difference between hypertrophy and hyperplasia?
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What condition can lead to physiological hypertrophy of the heart?
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Which of the following is an example of pathological hyperplasia?
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What triggers atrophy in cells?
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What characterizes metaplasia?
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What is a potential consequence of the persistent stimuli that induce metaplastic changes in smokers?
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Which of the following can lead to intracellular accumulations due to abnormal metabolism?
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What type of calcification occurs in injured or dead tissue despite normal calcium metabolism?
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Which condition is associated with metastatic calcification?
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What causes enzyme deficiency leading to intracellular accumulations?
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What is a characteristic feature of necrosis?
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Which of the following correctly describes apoptosis?
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What occurs when stimulus leading to cell injury is removed?
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Which of the following describes coagulative necrosis?
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Which phenomenon corresponds to the point of no return in cell injury?
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Which type of necrosis is characterized by the formation of pus?
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Which of the following features distinguishes necrosis from apoptosis?
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What type of cell injury results in cellular debris being cleared by phagocytes?
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Which is NOT a mechanism of necrosis?
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What happens to cellular function during the stages of cell death?
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What characterizes caseous necrosis?
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What is primarily responsible for fat necrosis?
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Which factors influence the consequences of cellular injury?
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What is a key feature of apoptosis?
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What is primarily observed in fibrinoid necrosis?
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What is the primary cause of ischemia-reperfusion injury?
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Which type of cell death is associated with fever?
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What effect does hypoxia have on the ATP production?
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What stimulates cellular adaptations?
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Which statement about DNA damage is accurate?
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Study Notes
Introduction to Pathology
- Pathology studies changes in cells, tissues, and organs linked to diseases.
- Essential for disease understanding, diagnosis, progression tracking, and treatment development.
- Requires identification of morphological, molecular, and biochemical changes, examined via gross and microscopic methods.
Cellular Responses Overview
- Cells must adapt to maintain homeostasis when faced with environmental changes.
- Adaptation enables cells to survive by achieving a new steady state.
- Cell injury occurs when the adaptive capacity is exceeded or when exposure to harmful stimuli occurs.
Classifications of Injurious Stimuli
- Hypoxia and Ischemia: Results in oxygen deficiency, reduced nutrient flow, and waste accumulation.
- Toxins: Includes air pollutants, drugs, and various chemical agents affecting cell function.
- Infectious Agents: Bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi can cause cellular disturbances.
- Immunologic Reactions: Autoimmune responses can injure tissues through excessive inflammation.
- Genetic Abnormalities: Mutations can lead to malfunctioning proteins and cellular damage.
- Nutritional Imbalances: Deficiencies or excesses in nutrients disrupt normal cellular functions.
- Physical Agents: Trauma or extreme environmental changes lead to potential injury.
- Aging: Senescence contributes to the decline in cellular function over time.
Cell Injury Sequence
- Injury initiates a sequence of reversible changes: swelling of cells and organelles, membrane blebbing, loss of ribosome attachment on the endoplasmic reticulum, chromatin clumping, and myelin figure formation.
Cell Death
- Two main types based on severity of the injurious stimulus:
- Necrosis: Results from severe disturbances leading to uncontrolled cell death.
- Apoptosis: A controlled process for removing dysfunctional or old cells.
Morphological Differences between Necrosis and Apoptosis
- Necrosis: Cells are enlarged, nucleus undergoes fragmentation, plasma membrane is disrupted, and inflammation is frequent.
- Apoptosis: Cell size is reduced, nuclear content is fragmented, plasma membrane remains intact, and no inflammation occurs.
Necrosis Types
- Coagulative Necrosis: Preservation of tissue architecture; common in solid organ infarcts.
- Liquefactive Necrosis: Occurs due to bacterial infections leading to tissue liquefaction.
- Gangrenous Necrosis: Combination of coagulative and liquefactive necroses, associated with limb ischemia followed by infection.
- Caseous Necrosis: Characteristic of tuberculosis infection, appears cheese-like microscopically.
- Fat Necrosis: Caused by the release of pancreatic enzymes leading to fat degradation.
- Fibrinoid Necrosis: Associated with immune-mediated vascular injury, resulting in an amorphous pink appearance in blood vessel walls.
Diagnostic Markers for Necrosis
- Specific proteins leak into the bloodstream indicating cellular damage:
- Cardiac markers: Creatine kinase, troponin for heart injury.
- Liver injury markers: Alkaline phosphatase, transaminases (ALT, AST) for liver health assessment.
Apoptosis Mechanisms
- Apoptosis plays a critical role in normal cellular turnover and physiological changes without causing inflammation.
- Two major pathways: intrinsic (mitochondrial) and extrinsic pathways.
Other Cell Death Pathways
- Necroptosis: Resembles necrosis but is triggered by cellular signals typical of apoptosis.
- Pyroptosis: Inflammatory form of apoptosis linked with fever response.
- Autophagy: Cellular response to nutrient deprivation involving lysosomal degradation of cellular components.
Injury Mechanisms
- Responses to injury depend on the type, duration, and severity of the stimulus.
- Hypoxia and Ischemia: Major causes of cell injury; ATP production is oxygen-dependent.
- Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: Restoring blood flow can cause stress from reactive oxygen species and inflammation.
- Oxidative Stress: Excess reactive oxygen species produced by mitochondria and leukocytes can damage cells.
- Toxins: Can be direct-acting or prodrugs activated within cells and can lead to cell injury.
Cellular Adaptations
- Adaptations are reversible and may involve:
- Hypertrophy: Increase in cell size, often due to heightened functional demand (e.g., muscle growth).
- Hyperplasia: Increase in cell number in tissues with replication capability (e.g., liver regeneration).
- Atrophy: Decrease in cell size from loss of substance, often due to reduced workload or aging.
- Metaplasia: Change in cell type, often due to stress; can predispose to malignancy.
Intracellular Accumulations
- Abnormal accumulation of substances can occur due to metabolic disturbances, protein misfolding, enzyme deficiencies, or inability to process ingested particles.
Pathologic Calcification
- Involves deposits of calcium salts in tissues, categorized into:
- Dystrophic Calcification: Normal metabolism with deposits in damaged tissues (e.g., atherosclerosis).
- Metastatic Calcification: Occurs in normal tissues in the context of hypercalcemia due to increased parathyroid hormone or vitamin D disorders.
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