The document discusses reversible cell injury, including the causes, morphological changes, and examples. The main causes of reversible cell injury are oxygen deprivation, chemicals, infections, immune reactions, genetics, nutrition, and physical factors. The key morphological changes are cellular swelling and fatty change. These changes are reversible if the injurious stimulus is removed. Examples given of reversible cell injury include ischemic myocardium and fatty liver from alcohol or obesity.
The document discusses reversible cell injury, including the causes, morphological changes, and examples. The main causes of reversible cell injury are oxygen deprivation, chemicals, infections, immune reactions, genetics, nutrition, and physical factors. The key morphological changes are cellular swelling and fatty change. These changes are reversible if the injurious stimulus is removed. Examples given of reversible cell injury include ischemic myocardium and fatty liver from alcohol or obesity.
The document discusses reversible cell injury, including the causes, morphological changes, and examples. The main causes of reversible cell injury are oxygen deprivation, chemicals, infections, immune reactions, genetics, nutrition, and physical factors. The key morphological changes are cellular swelling and fatty change. These changes are reversible if the injurious stimulus is removed. Examples given of reversible cell injury include ischemic myocardium and fatty liver from alcohol or obesity.
The document discusses reversible cell injury, including the causes, morphological changes, and examples. The main causes of reversible cell injury are oxygen deprivation, chemicals, infections, immune reactions, genetics, nutrition, and physical factors. The key morphological changes are cellular swelling and fatty change. These changes are reversible if the injurious stimulus is removed. Examples given of reversible cell injury include ischemic myocardium and fatty liver from alcohol or obesity.
electric Aging Celluler senescence REVERSIBLE CELL INJURY The cellular derangements of reversible injury can be repaired
If the injurious stimulus abates, the cell will return to normalcy.
Persistent or excessive injury, however, causes cells to pass the
nebulous "point of no return" into irreversible injury and cell death.
The events that determine when reversible injury becomes
irreversible and progresses to cell death remain poorly understood.
Although there are no definitive morphologic or biochemical
correlates of irreversibility, two phenomena consistently characterize irreversibility: the inability to reverse mitochondrial dysfunction (lack of oxidative phosphorylation and ATP generation) even after resolution of the original injury, and profound disturbances in membrane function. REVERSIBLE CELL INJURY The two main morphologic correlates of reversible cell injury are cellular swelling and fatty change.
Cellular swelling is the result of failure of energy-
dependent ion pumps in the plasma membrane, leading to an inability to maintain ionic and fluid homeostasis.
Fatty change occurs in hypoxic injury and various forms
of toxic or metabolic injury, and is manifested by the appearance of small or large lipid vacuoles in the cytoplasm.
It occurs mainly in cells involved in and dependent on fat
metabolism, such as hepatocytes and myocardial cells. MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE IN CELL INJURY CELLULAR SWELLING The first manifestation of almost all forms of injury to cells, More apparent at the level of the whole organ. Organ : pallor, increased turgor, and increase in weight of the organ. Microscopic examination : small, clear vacuoles within the cytoplasm; these represent distended and pinched-off segments of the ER.
This pattern of nonlethal injury is sometimes
called hydropic change or vacuolar degeneration. FATTY CHANGE Fatty change is manifested by the appearance of lipid vacuoles in the cytoplasm.
It is principally encountered in cells
participating in fat metabolism (e.g., hepatocytes and myocardial cells) and is also reversible.
Injured cells may also show increased
eosinophilic staining, which becomes much more pronounced with progression to necrosis. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY RCI (SUMMARY) The ultrastructural changes of reversible cell injury are illustrated schematically, include : Plasma membrane alterations such as blebbing, blunting or distortion of microvilli, and loosening of intercellular attachments
Mitochondrial changes such as swelling and the
appearance of phospholipid-rich amorphous densities
Dilation of the ER with detachment of ribosomes and
dissociation of polysomes
Nuclear alterations, with clumping of chromatin.
EXAMPLE REVERSIBLE CELL INJURY Myocardium : Ischemic EXAMPLE OF REVERSIBLE CELL INJURY Hepatocyte fatty change (Fatty liver) caused by alcohol, chloroform, obesity, DM.