Cell Injury and Cell Death: Mahmud Ghaznawie
Cell Injury and Cell Death: Mahmud Ghaznawie
Cell Injury and Cell Death: Mahmud Ghaznawie
Mahmud Ghaznawie
Dept Pathology
Medical Faculty
Hasanuddin University
* General mechanism of cell death (C2)
* Ischemic injury (C3)
* Injury due to free radicals (C3)
* The morphology of reversible vs
irriversible injury (C4)
* Necrosis vs apoptosis (C4)
* Mechanism of apoptosis (C3)
* Subcellular changes due to injury
* Lisosomes (C2)
* ER (C2)
* Mitochondria (C2)
* Cytoskeleton (C2)
Plasma Membrane
Nucleus
Golgi Apparatus Mitochondria
Reversible
injury
Normal
cell
Cell death
Causes of cell injury
• Hypoxia
• Free radicals
• Physical injury
• Chemical injury
• Infection
• Immune reaction
Inflammation Hypoxia
Reperfusion
Radiation
Ischemia
Aging
Chemical
Ischemic/hypoxic injury
Oxygen
Oxydative phosphorilation
ATP production
Oxygen
Oxydative phosphorilation
ATP production
• Cell swollen
• Microvilli disappear
• Bleb formation
• ER swollen
• Myelin bodies
Ischemic/hypoxic injury
Oxygen
Oxydative phosphorilation
ATP production
pH
Chromatin clumps
Ischemic/hypoxic injury
Oxygen
Oxydative phosphorilation
ATP production
Protein production
Cell edema
Blebs Myelin figures
Cell swelling
ER swelling
Chromatin Ribosomes
clumps detachment
Mitochondrial
Autophagy swelling
Small
densities
C
A
Irreversible
Normal
B
Reversible
Mechanisms membrane damage
(made simple)
ATP Ca++
Phospolipase Protease
activation activation
Membrane damage
Rupture of Membrane
lysosomes
defects
Myelin figures
Nucleus
pyknosis
Lysis of ER
Mitochondrial
swelling
Large densities
Inflammation Hypoxia
Reperfusion
Radiation
Iskemia
Aging
Chemical
Injury due to Free Radicals
• Free Radicals: atoms or molecules
possesing unpaired electron in an outer
orbit
• Characteristics of free radicals:
– react with any organic / inorganic substance
– the results will form a new free radicals new
reaction chain
– the reaction will cease by itself or by enzymatic
reaction
• Three important free radicals:
– Superoxide anion radical (O2÷)
– Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)
– Hydroxyl ions(OH•)
• Effects of free radicals on cell membrane:
– Membrane lipid peroxidation (especially by OH•)
– Protein damage: cross-linking of amino acids,
increase protease activation
– DNA damage: single helix formation followed by
cell death of even malignant transformation
(cancer)
De-activation of free radicals
• Spontaneous, because of its instability
• Endogenous/exogenous antioxidant
– Vitamine E, C and A
– Binding to storage & transport proteins (lactoferrin,
ceruloplasmine, dan trasferrin)
• Enzymatic
– Superoxide dismutase (SOD)
– Catalase
– Glutathione peroxidase
S.O.D,
Catalase,
and Gluthation peroxidase
are free radical-scavenging
enzymes
Chemical injury
• Water soluble
– Act directly (by combining with some critical
molecular component or cellular organelle)
– E.g: HgCl, cyanide, antibiotics, and
chemotherapy
– Mercury binds to the sulfhydryl groups of the cell
membrane increased membrane permeability
and inhibit ATPase-dependent transport
– Cyanide poisons mitochondrial cytochrome
oxidase and block oxidative phosphorylation
Chemical injury (cont)
• Lipid soluble
– Indirect effects (converted to reactive toxic
metabolites, which then act on target cells)
– E.g: CCl4
CCl4
CCl3•
Lipid peroxidation
Gangrenous necrosis:
infected coagulative
necrosis (may then turns to
liquefactive necrosis)
Caseous necrosis
Special form of coagulative necrosis,
spesific to tbc
Macroscopically looks like “cheese”
Microscopic:
amorphous mass,
granular, surrounded by
inflammatory cells
Enzymic fat
necrosis
Autophagy
Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
Massively enlarged
Mitochondria
Enlarged
Conclusion
• Cell injury in the basis of any
pathologic processes
• It could be reversible or irreversible
(ended with cell death)
• The morphological changes are so
characteristic
• The mechanism of cell injury should
be beared in mind in your further
study of BMD and medicine
– Exam Questions on cell injury
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Mahmud Ghaznawie