Cell Injury 14.3.22
Cell Injury 14.3.22
Cell Injury 14.3.22
Dr Anita Ramdas
Objectives
• Discuss causes of cell injury
• Enumerate biochemical changes in a
reversibly injured cell
• Discuss mechanism of
ischemic/hypoxic and reperfusion injury
HYPERTROPHY
HYPERPLASIA
ATROPHY
METAPLASIA
The relationships between normal, adapted,
reversibly injured, and dead myocardial cells
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Causes of Cell Injury or Stress
Aging
Hypoxia Nutrition
Physical Genetic
Cellular
Injury
Chemicals Immunologic
Drugs Microbiologic
Consequences of
decreased
intracellular ATP
Mechanisms of
membrane
damage in cell
injury.
Increased
cytosolic
calcium in
cell injury.
FREE RADICAL INDUCED INJURY
Time Scale of Response to
Injury
Organelle Cell Tissue Organ
Electron Light Macroscopic
microscopic microscopic (gross)
changes changes Changes
Cellular swelling
loss of microvilli
Influx of Ca2+
2+,
blebs
H22O, Na++
ER swelling
efflux of K++ myelin figures
Clumping of
Mitochondria
Na pump chromatin
Oxidative pH
phoshorylation Irreversible
ATP Glycolysis injury
Glycogen
Phospholipid Cytoskeletal
O2 FR
degradation damage
Loss of
intracellular
Phospholipid Lipid breakdown aminoacids Lipid
loss products peroxidation
Membrane damage
Chemical/drug injury
HgCl22 binds to
CO inactivates Acetaminophen
sulphhydryl CCl44 forms CCl33
cytochrome forms highly
groups free radical
oxidase toxic metabolite
of cell membrane
Review
• A 20-year-old man is involved in a motor vehicle accident which
results in multiple blunt trauma and lacerations to his lower
extremities. The left femoral artery is lacerated, and he incurs
extensive blood loss and remains hypotensive for hours during
transport to the emergency department. On admission, his
hematocrit is 12%. Which of the following tissues is most likely
to withstand the impact of these events with the least damage?
A Skeletal muscle
B Intestinal epithelium
C Retina
D Cerebral cortex
E Renal tubules
Review
• A 45-year-old man has a traumatic injury to his forearm and
incurs extensive blood loss. On physical examination in the
emergency department his blood pressure is 70/30 mm Hg.
Which of the following cellular changes is most likely to
represent irreversible cellular injury as a result of this injury?
A Epithelial dysplasia
B Cytoplasmic fatty metamorphosis
C Nuclear pyknosis
D Atrophy
E Anaerobic glycolysis
F Autophagocytosis
Objectives
• Discuss causes of cell injury
• Enumerate biochemical changes in a
reversibly injured cell
• Discuss mechanism of
ischemic/hypoxic,reperfusion,free
radical and chemical injury