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Patho 03

Stress and Adaptation

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3 essential ways a cell can be injured? Deficiency, Intoxication (poisioning), Trauma
Cell injury disrupts? energy metabolism, protein synthesis, function
Outcome on cell function = nature + duration + intensity + number of exposures to injury
Ways to classify cell injury? hypoxia, free radicals, nutritional imbalances, infectious agents, age, genetic defects
Hypoxia lack of O2Single most common cause of cellular injury
Deficiency injuries Lack of a substance necessary to the cell: such as oxygen or nutrients
Hypoxia can result from decreased O2 in air, decreased # RBC, Respiratory/cardiac disease, decreased hemoglobin or loss of function of hemoglobin, poisioning of oxidative enzymes within cell
Ischemia reduced blood supply leading to hypoxia
Anoxia total lack of oxygen
Lack of nutrients 1. lack in the diet2. in diet but cannot be absorbed
What can hypoxia lead to? cells becoming swollen due to decreased production of ATP from switching to anaerobic metabolism, leading to na+ flowing into cell and K+ moving out of cell.Reversible if O2 is restored.
If O2 not restored, vacuolation occurs in cytoplasm and marked by mitochondrial swelling occurs. This stage is associated with cell injury
In toxic injury__________ toxin exerts its effects by binding to critical cell structures which then disrupts the function
Injurious substances = toxins
Toxins can originate________ from outside(Exogenous) or from inside the cell(Endogenous).
Exogenous Toxins:Biologic toxins bacteria, fungi, protozoa
non-biologic toxins Injurious chemicals (drugs)
Degree of exposure is a critical factor in injury because_______ some toxins are injourious in small amts while others need a higher dose to be toxic.
Endogenous Toxins: Genetic defects that cause a toxic substance to be produced (Huntington's disease)Genetic defect that activates an alternative metabolic pathway and the products are toxic (PKU)Impaired circulation that allows byproducts to accumulate: CO2 and bilirubin
TRAUMA INJURYHypothermia ice crystals form in the water of the cell's cytoplasmDamages organelles in cell
TRAUMA INJURYHow does hyperthermia damage cell? disrupts cell proteins
Trauma injuryBurns Protein is chemically transformed by combining with oxygen leading to blackening and charring.Burn Eschar: DENATURED PROTEIN in zones of the burn
What happens when protein unflods or denatures? Heat and acids break down the chemical bonds
What is most proteins in cells formed of? a thin helix; a long chain of amino acids.Helix is held folded by chemical bonds.
Free Radical uncharged atom or group of atoms having an unpaired electron.Makes molecule unstable.
What does the molecule do to regain stability? it gives up an electron or steals one.
autocatalysis multiple production of free radicals from 1
Where is the GREATEST source and target of free radical damage? Mitochondria
What 3 things are very vulnerable to free-radical damage? cell membrane lipids, cell protein(including enzymes), and DNA
How can free radicals be produced? Ionizing radiation, Metabolism of exogenous chemicals, elevated copper and iron levels in cell, normal metabolic reactions that release hydroxyl radicals or superoxide
What is the cells method of self-protection? Intracellular Antioxidant Enzymes and Extracellular Antioxidants
Intracellular Antioxidant Enzymes SOD (superoxide dismutase)Glutathione PeroxidaseCatalase
What do mitochondria lack making them more vulnerable to damage by free radicals? catalase
Extracellular Antioxidants Vitamin E, A, and C
What does vitamin E do in the cell membrane? Acts as an antioxidant by attracting and neutralizing molecules with unpaired electrons.Interacts with free radicals to produce stable forms.Terminates the chain of autocatalysis.
Created by: kgille1970
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