4. Cell injury
If the limits of adaptive responses are exceeded or
if cells are exposed to injurious agents or
stress, deprived of essential nutrients or
become compromised by mutations
that affect essential cellular constituents
a sequence of events follows that is termed cell
injury
6. Oxygen Deprivation
Hypoxia – deficiency of oxygen
Ischemia – loss of blood supply (arterial
flow or reduced venous drainage)
Causes of Cell Injury
13. Mechanisms of Cell Injury
Depletion of ATP
Mitochondrial Damage
Influx of Intracellular Calcium and Loss of
Calcium Homeostasis
Accumulation of Oxygen-Derived free
radical (Oxidative stress)
Defects in Membrane Permeability
Damage to DNA and Proteins
14. Mechanisms of Cell Injury
Depletion of ATP
Na+K+ATPase (Na-pump)
Ca2+Mg2+ATPases (Ca-pump)
Causes
Hypoxia, Ischemia
Chemical Injury
Membrane
transport
Protein synthesis,
Lipogenesis etc
ATP
17. Mitochondrial Damage
Mechanisms of Cell Injury
• Mitochondrial permeability transition pore
(formation of high-conductance channel)
• Leakage of Cytochrome c into cytosol
•Abnormal oxidative phosphorylation and ROS
formation.
ATP production
Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation
19. Influx of Intracellular Calcium
and Loss of Calcium Homeostasis
Mechanisms of Cell Injury
Opening of mitochondrial permeability transition
pore and failure of ATP generation.
Activation of many enzymes with potentially
deleterious effects on cells.
Induction of apoptosis by direct activation of caspases
and by increasing mitochondrial permeability.
21. Accumulation of Oxygen-Derived
Free Radicals (Oxidative Stress)
The Oxidation-Reduction reaction (normal
metabolic processes)
-superoxide anion (O2 , ONE ELECTRON)
-hydrogen peroxide (H2O2, TWO ELECTRON)
-hydroxyl ion (OH ,Three electrons)
Mechanisms of Cell Injury
22. Accumulation of Oxygen-Derived Free
Radicals (Oxidative Stress)
Absorption of radiant energy (ultraviolet light, X-ray)
Mechanisms of Cell Injury
H20
Ionizing radiation
OH H
24. Continue……
Rapid brust of ROS production in activated
leukocytes during inflammation.
Enzymatic metabolism of exogenous chemicals or
drugs generate free radicals. (ccl4 generate .ccl3 )
Nitric oxide can act as free radical which generated
by macrophages, endothelial cells, neurons.
25. Effects of the free radicals on cell injury
Lipid peroxidation of Membranes
- Plasma membrane
- Organellar membrane
Accumulation of Oxygen-Derived Free
Radicals (Oxidative Stress)
Mechanisms of Cell Injury
Double bonds in unsaturated fatty acids
membrane damage
26. Accumulation of Oxygen-Derived Free
Radicals (Oxidative Stress)
Mechanisms of Cell Injury
Effects of the free radicals
Oxidative modification of proteins
-Oxidation of amino acid side chains
Protein-protein cross-linkages
-Oxidation of the protein backbone
Protein fragmentation
Damage active sites of enzymes
Disrupts structural conformation of proteins
Enhances protein degradation
27. Accumulation of Oxygen-Derived Free
Radicals (Oxidative Stress)
Mechanisms of Cell Injury
Effects of the free radicals
Lesions in DNA
DNA single and double-strand break
Cross linking of DNA strand
DNA fragmentation
37. Necrosis
Necrosis refers to a spectrum of morphologic changes
that follow cell death in living tissue largely resulting
from the denaturation of intracellular proteins and
enzymatic digestion of lethally injured cell.
38. Morphology of Necrotic Cells
Increased Eosinophilia
- loss of RNA (basophilia)
- denatured cytoplasmic protein
Nuclear Changes
- Pyknosis
- Karyorrhexis
- Karyolysis
Myelin figure : From damaged cell membrane
– large, whorled phospholipid mass
39. Nuclear change
Karyolysis: Basophilia of chromatin fade due to loss
of DNA.
Pyknosis : Nuclear shrinkage and increased
basophilia.
Karyorrhexis: Fragmentation of pyknotic nucleus.
41. Morphologic pattern of Necrotic Cell
Coagulative Necrosis: Architecture of dead
tissue preserved.
– protein denatures
– proteolysis inhibited
Esonophilic , anucleated cells persists.
Example: Ischaemia leads to coagulative
necrosis in all organs except brain.
42. This is an example of coagulative necrosis. This is the typical pattern
with ischemia and infarction (loss of blood supply and resultant tissue
anoxia). Here, there is a wedge-shaped pale area of coagulative necrosis
(infarction) in the renal cortex of the kidney.
43. Ischemic necrosis of the myocardium
A, Normal myocardium.
B, Myocardium with coagulation necrosis
44. Morphologic pattern of Necrotic Cell
Liquefactive Necrosis : Digestion of dead cells and
transformation of tissue into liquid viscous mass.
Focal bacterial (or fungal) infections
Accumulation of inflammatory cells and enzymes
liberation necrotic materials is creamy yellow
called PUS.
Hypoxic death of cells within CNS
45. The liver shows a small abscess here filled with many neutrophils.
This abscess is an example of localized liquefactive necrosis
46. Coagulative and Liquefactive necrosis
A, Kidney infarct exhibiting coagulative necrosis
B, A focus of liquefactive necrosis in the kidney
47. Morphologic Pattern of Necrotic Cell
Caseous necrosis:
Example: Tuberculous infection
Gross appearance: cheese like ( friable white like)
Microscopic – Structureless collection of lysed cells
and amorphous granular debris enclosed within a
inflammatory border GRANULOMA
49. Tuberculous granuloma showing an area of central
necrosis, epithelioid cells, multiple Langhans’-type
giant cells, and lymphocytes.
50. Fat Necrosis
Acute pancreatitis :
Resulting from release of activated pancreatic lipases
Lipase split TG into FA
Fat saponification
( FA combines with calcium to produce chalky white
areas)
51. Foci of fat necrosis with saponification in the
mesentery
52. Gangrenous Necrosis
Typically coagulative necrosis
Generally occurs in lower limb due to
ischaemia.
Bacterial infection cause liquefactive
necrosis called wet gangrene.
53. Fibrinoid Necrosis
Special form of necrosis
Occur in immune reactions involving
blood vessels
Immune complexs together with fibrin
leaked out of vessels
Bright pink amorphous appearance.
58. Ischemic- Reperfusion injury
How it occurs?
Oxidative stress: Generation of ROS
Intracellular calcium overload
Inflammation : Cytokines release
Complement activation
59. Apoptosis
Pathway of Cell death that is induced by a tightly
regulated suicide program in which cells destined to
die activate intrinsic enzymes that degrade cells own
nuclear DNA and nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins.
“Programmed Cell Death”
Causes of Apoptosis
- Physiologic situations
- Pathologic conditions
61. Apoptosis in Physiologic Situations
Programmed destruction of cell during
embryogenesis
Hormone-dependent involution
- endometrial cells (menstrual cycle)
Cell deletion in proliferating cell population
Death of host cells - neutrophils
Elimination of self reactive lymphocyte
62. Apoptosis in Pathologic Conditions
Cell death produced by injurious stimuli – radiation,
cytotoxic drug
Accumulation of misfolded proteins ER stress
Cell injury in certain viral diseases – viral hepatitis
Pathologic atrophy
Cell death in tumors, transplants rejection
65. Dysregulated apoptosis
Defective apoptosis and increased cell survival:
Malignancy
Autoimmune disorder
Increased apoptosis and excessive cell death:
Neurodegenerative diseases
Ischemic injury
Death of virus infected cells
66. Necroptosis
Hybrid form of cell death that shares aspects of both
necrosis and apoptosis.
Morphologically resembles necrosis but
mechanistically it is genetically programmed cell
death.
Programmed necrosis
Caspase independent programmed cell death but
dependent on RIP1 and RIP3 complex signaling.
67. Examples of necroptosis
Formation of mammalian bone growth plate.
Cell death in steatohepatitis, acute pancreatitis,
reperfusion injury, neurodegenerative dieases.
Host defense against certain virus: cytomegalovirus.
Pyroptosis
Another programmed cell death occurs in cells infected by
microbes.
Accompanied by release of fever inducing cytokine IL-1
and it bears some similarities with apoptosis.
Activation of caspase-1 and generates IL-1 and cause cell
death.
69. Intracellular Accumulations
Manifestation of “metabolic derangements” characterized
by intracellular accumulation of abnormal amounts of
various substances that may be harmless or varying degrees
of injury.
Types:
Normal cellular component: water, lipid, proteins,CHO.
Abnormal substance:
Exogenous: Minerals or infected agents products
Endogenous: Abnormal metaboloic products.
74. Lipids
B. Cholesterol and Cholesterol Esters:
Atherosclerosis : Accumulation of cholesterol-laden
macrophage (foam cell) and smooth muscle cells in
the intima of aorta and arteries .
Cholesterolosis : Accumulation of foam cells in the
lamina propria of gallbladder.
Xanthomas: Foam cells in subepithelial connective
tissue of skin and tendons.
Niemann-Pick diseases type –C: Choleserol
accumulation in multiple organs.
76. Proteins
Accumulation of protein droplets in proximal renal
tubule : Renal disease
Defective intracellular transport and secretion of
protein : Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Accumulation of cytoskeletal proteins: Keratin,
vimentin
Abnormal proteins aggregation : Amyloidosis
78. Glycogen
“Patients with abnormal metabolism of glucose or
glycogen”
Diabetes mellitus: disorder of glucose metabolism
- glycogen accumulate in epithelial cells of
renal tubules,
liver cells,
beta-cells of the islets of Langerhans
heart muscle cells
79. Glycogen storage disease (Glycogenosis)
- genetic diseases
- defect of enzymes in the synthesis or breakdown
of glycogen accumulation cell injury death
Glycogen
81. Pigments
Endogenous pigment
Lipofuscin – Insoluble pigment ,found in liver and
heart of aging patients or severe malnutrition.
Melanin – Brown black colour
Hemosiderin – Golden yellow colour
84. Metastatic Calcification
Occur in normal tissue in “hypercalcemia”
Site : Gastric mucosa, kidneys, lungs,
systemic arteries, pulmonary veins.
Pathologic Calcification
Hypercalcemia
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Resorption of bone tissue
• Renal failure
•Vitamin D related disorder