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CELLULAR PATHOLOGY
NECROSIS & APOPTOSIS
osms.it/necrosis-and-apoptosis
+ Two main ways by which cells die
NECROSIS
* Cell death by injuryidisease
+ External triggers (eg, infection,
temperature}
+ Internal triggers (e.g ischemia}
Coagulative necrosis,
* Occurs in hypoxic tissue
+ Structural proteins bend out of shape
+ Lysosomal proteins become ineffective at
removing affected proteins
+ Cell dies, some structure remains
Gangrenous necrosis
+ Also occurs in hypoxic tissue
* Dry gangrene: tissue dries up
+ Wet gangrene: infection, iquetactive
necrosis also occurs
Liquefactive necrosis
* Hydroiytic enzymes digest dead cells into
‘creamy substance
Caseous necrosis
+ Occurs in fungalmycobacterial infections
+ Cell disintegrate {not fully] ~» cottage
cheese consistency
Fat necrosis
+ Occurs in response to fatty organ trauma
+ Adipose cell memiranes ruptured
+ Fatty acids combine with calcium, causing
dystrophic caleifcations
+ Can occur in pancreas as result of
inflammation (AKA pancreatitis)
Fibrinoid necrosis
* Occurs in malignant hypertensionfvascults
+ Fibrirvinflammation darvages blood vessel
walls
Also includes oncosis
+ Toxinsfischemia damage mitochondria
+ ATP can no longer be synthesized {e.,
Tonic pumps}
+ Sodium, water flow into cell + swelling
+ Cell bursts, triggers infiammmatory process
APOPTOSIS
+ Programmed cell death
+ Based on caspase cascade
+ Pro-caspases cleaved into caspases,
activating caspase 3
+ Caspase 3 causes activation of cascade
of caspase proteins
+ Cleaves various integral proteins
degrading cellular components fe.
nucleus, organelles, cytoskeleton)
* Cel loses structure, resulting in blebs,
which break off, undergo phagocytosis
Intrinsic/mitochondrial pathway
+ Induced by stress (eg. radiation)
+ Process
+ Intracellular proteins BAX, BAK pierce
rmitochonstial membrane
+ This allows SMACS, cytochrome C to
flow out of mitochondria
= SMACS binds to proteins that otherwise
inhibit apoptosis
* Cytochrome C binds to ATP, APAF-1,
forming apoptosome
+ Pro-caspase 9 cleaves into easpase 9,
activating caspase 3
NOTES
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Extrinsic/death receptor pathway cell AKA death domain)
+ Process: * Death domain changes shape, binds
= External cell ritiates apoptosis by various proteins to form intemal
releasing various signaling proteins signalling complex
Signaling proteins bind to death + Pro-caspase & cleaves into caspase 8,
receptors on cell membrane activating caspase 3
+ Cytosolic end of protein dives deep into
EXAMPLE 1 EXAMPLE 2.
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CASCADE
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Figure 24.2 Two examples of the extrinsiaideath receptor pathway. In example 1, a macrophage
recognizes an old cell, a pathogenic cell, or a cell that has completed its task It releases TNF-a,
which binds to the death receptor tumor necrosis factor receptor 1. in example 2, when a
cytotoxic T cell detects that a cel is expressing foreign antigens, the T cell exoresses FAS ligand
fn its membrane. FAS ligand binds to the death receptor called FAS receptor. In bothycases, the
death domain binds ather proteins to form DISC and the caspase cascade leads to apoptosis: |)
OSMOSISORG 183ONCOGENES & TUMOR
SUPPRESSOR GENES
* Cade for proteins involved in progression of
coll cycle
* Positive regulation: oncogenes stimulate
cell growth, division
= Negative regulation: tunor suppressor
genes stop cell cycle progression,
promote apoptosis,
Proto-oncogenes
* Code for growth factors, growth factor
receptors feg. receptor tyrosine kinase)
+ Signal transcuction oroteins (eg. RAS
GTPase}, transcrition factors (eg. MYC)
apoptosis inhibitors (eg. BCL-2)
+ Active when cell needs to grow, divide
+ Translocations, amplifications, point
‘mutations turn proto-oncogenes into
oncogenes
» Overexpression
» Eg. in Burkitt iymphoma, MYC
moved from chromosome 8 to near
IgH promoter on chromosome 14
= overexpression of cyclins, eyclin-
dependent kinases
Eg. in chronic myeloid leukemia with
Philadelphia chromosome
‘Tumor suppressor genes
* Cade for various tumor suppressors, other
protein inhibitors
+ Active throughout cel cycle
+ Various mutations cause uncantroled cell
growth, division
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BURKITT LYMPHOMA
Figure 24.3 Surkit lymphoma can occur
{due to translocation between portions
fof chromosomes 8 and 14, resulting in
‘overexpression of proto-oncogene MYC.
PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME
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DEFENSE AGAINST FREE
RADICALS
Antioxidants
Eq. vitamins A, C, E
+ Eliminate free radicals by donating
electrons
Metal carrier proteins
+ Eg. transferrin fr iron, ceruloplasmin for
copper
+ Bind, carry metals to prevent free radical
production
Enzymes
+ Eliminate various free radical species
* Superoxide dismutase + superoxide
+ Catalase —+ hydrogen peroxide
+ Glutathione peroxidase + hydroxy!
radical
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Hydrol 4,
radical <= Radiation
Figure 247 Oxygenis an example of a molecule that can become a free radical
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ISCHEMIA
+ Reduction in blood flow to organitissue —>
‘oxygen shortage
Caused by blackagelcompression of
blood vessel
Arterial ischemia
* arterial blood flow —» | oxygen received
+ Eg, atherosclerosis: plaque blocks arteries
to heart — ischemic heart disease
Venous ischemia
| venous blood flow —» | drainage — |
blood flow —» | oxygen received
+ Eg, Budd-Chiari syndrome: clot blocks
hepatic vein —» liver ischemia + edemal
hepatomegaly
Outcomes
+ Sometimes, congestion —> 17 pressure +
fluid forced outledema
+ |Loxygen — cell death (eg. tissue necrosis,
infarction)
+ Ischemic penumbra: ischemic but still
Viable tissue
+ Collateralization: growth of collateral
vessels to serve ischemic tissue
+ Time to reperfusion: time taken to re
establish perfusion before cells die
Short + cells survive + reversible
Long + cel’s die ireversible
INFLAMMATION
+ Immune response described by four key
signs:
* Calor: heat
* Dolor: pain
+ Rubor: redness
Tumor: swelling
+ May also involve “Tunetio laesa" (AKA loss
of function)
+ Tiggered by external, internal factors
+ External
* Non-microbial: allergens, iritants, toxic
compounds,
* Microbial: virulence factors, pathogen
associated molecular patterns {PAMPs}
+ Internal
Damage associated molecular patterns
(DAMPs)
Example process
+ PAMPs, DAMPs recognized by pattern
recognition receptors (PRRs} on immune
calls
+ Activate cells, sparking inflammatory
response
+ Mast cells contain granules with
inflammatory mediators
“Eg. histamine, serotonin, cytokines, and
eicosanoids
+ — separate endothelial cells on nearby
capillaries
+ Macrophages eat any invading pathogens
+ Cytokines cause capillaries to enlarge, t
vascular permeability
+ Endothelial cells release nitric oxide for
vasodilation, 1 vascular permeability
* Leukocytes, especially neutrophils,
attracted through capilaries by
chemokines, microbial products; squeeze
through membrane
AKA extravasation
+ Leukocyte follows gradient of inflammatory
mediatorsChapter 24 Cellular Physiology: Cellular Pathology
+ Neutrophils phagocytose pathogens + Dendritic cells phagocytose pathogens,
immediately before destroying themselves present antigens to T lymphocytes,
+ Antioodies bound to pathegens activate ‘activating adaptive immune system
‘complement system + Ends with tissue repair
+ Aids in opsonization, kills pathogens by
lysis
Figure 24.8 1: DAMPs and PAMPs activate immune cells. 2: Macrophages phagocytose
pathogens at the site of inflammation. Mast cells release inflammatory mediators that widen
the distance between adjacent endothelial cells, 3: Endothelial cells release nitric oxide»
vasodilation, vascular permeability.
‘COMPLEMENT SYSTEM
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' ATTRACT LEUKOCYTES
“+ HELP w/OPSOMRZATION
Figure 24.9 1: Neutrophils are the first leukocytes recruited during the acute inflammatory
process, They squeeze through the gap between endothelial cells extravasation} and follow
the gradient of inflammatory mediators to the site of inlarnmation. 2: Neutrophils quickly
pphagocytose pathogens. While this is happening, complement proteins are actvated by the
presence of pathogens and help with opsonization {they bind to microbes so leukocytes can
‘more easly eat them). Some can also kil pathogens by forming a channel in their membranes,
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