Cell Injury and Cell Death: Mahmud Ghaznawie

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Cell Injury and Cell Death

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

Lisosome & peroxisome


The rough endoplasmic reticulum

The smooth endoplasmic reticulum


Cytoskeleton
Intermediate
Actin filaments Microtubules filaments
Adaptation

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 

Sodium pump  Ribosome detachment


Glycogenolysis
Ischemic/hypoxic injury

Oxygen 

Oxydative phosphorilation 

ATP production 

Sodium pump  Ribosome detachment


Glycogenolysis
Sodium pump 

Influx Ca ++ Na+ Retension Efflux K+

• Cell swollen
• Microvilli disappear
• Bleb formation
• ER swollen
• Myelin bodies
Ischemic/hypoxic injury

Oxygen 

Oxydative phosphorilation 

ATP production 

Sodium pump  Ribosome detachment


Glycogenolysis
Glycogenolysis 

Lactic acid and inorganic


phosphate

pH 

Chromatin clumps
Ischemic/hypoxic injury

Oxygen 

Oxydative phosphorilation 

ATP production 

Sodium pump  Ribosome detachment


Glycogenolysis
Detachment of ribosomes

Protein production 

Intracellular osmotic pressure 

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

Phospholipid synthesis  Phospholipid Cytoskeletal


degradation damage

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

RER damage Membrane damage

Permeability Na, H2O, Ca++


Polysome detachment

Cell swelling and


Apoprotein synthesis massive influx of Ca++

Fatty liver Protein denaturation


Cell Death
• Could be necrosis or apoptosis
• Necrosis
– Cell death in association to a living tissue
– When due to lisosomal enzymes: autolysis,
due to enzymes of immigrant cells: heterolysis.
– Autolysis  coagulative necrosis; heterolysis
 liquefactive necrosis
– Morphological changes occure within hours
The morphology of necrotic cells
• Cytoplasm:
– Eosinophillic (reaction to denatured proteins)
– Glassy appearance (due to loss of glykogen particles)
– Vacuolated (due to digestion of organelles)
– Calcification
• Nucleus: (3 possibilities)
– Karyolisis (basophilia of the chromatine fades)
– Pyknosis (due to nuclear shrinkage)
– Karyorhexis (fragmentation of the pyknotic nucleus)
Normal Necrosis
The cytoplasm
is more eosinophillic
Nuclei partially lysis
H & E staining
to show edema of the
myocardial fibres

LDH enzyme staining


to area unstained areas
Morphology of necrosis
Coagulative necrosis:
 The cell outlines are maintained
 Characteristic to hypoxic necrosis
exept on the brain.

 Occur because the


lysosomal enzymes we
also damaged
Liquefactive necrosis:
 Due to autolysis or
heterolysis
 Characteristic to bacterial
infection (pus) and hypoxic
necrosis to the brain

 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

 Destruction of fat due to pancreatic


lipase
 Fatty acid formed will bind to calcium
 Microscopic: necrotic area, calcium
deposition (blue), and inflammation of the
surrounding tissue
Apoptosis
• Could be physiological or pathological
– “Programmed cell death” in embryogenesis,
involusion of hormon dependent organs, cell death in
cancer, etc)
• Morphology:
– Shrinkage
– Chromatin condensation
– Formation of blebs and apoptotic bodies
– Phagocytosis of apoptotic bodies
Perubahan subseluler
Lisosome
Autophagy dan
heterophagy

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
– http://peir2.path.uab.edu/bmp/article_6.shtml
Mahmud Ghaznawie

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