Lecture 25

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What is a totipotent cell?
Diploid zygote
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Which cells typically allow replenishment of tissues?
Progenitor cells
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What are labile cells?
Rapidly dividing cellsĀ 
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What are stable cells?
Quiescent cells (divide only when stimulated)
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What are permanent cells?
Don't typically divide
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What are examples of labile cells?
"Epithelial cells (barrier tissues), WBCs"
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What cells are at increased risk to insult?
Rapidly proliferating cells
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What are examples of permanent cells?
"Neurons, cardiac myocytes"
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What ways is growth adaptive?
Hypertrophy
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How may hyperplasia occur?
"Cell division increase, decrease apoptosis"
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When does hyperplasia occur?
"High altitude, increased RBCs"
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When does hyperplasia and hypertrophy occure?
"Puberty, pregnancy"
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When does pathological hyperplasia occur?
Endomentrial hyperplasia
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What are causes of atrophy?
"Paralysis (disuse atrophy) loss of fat/muscle (nutritional atropy), decrease in endometrium after menopause (physiological atrophy (aging)"
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What is hypoplasia?
Failure to reach normal size during development
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How is normal differentiation controlled?
"Genes, other cells, environment"
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What is metaplasia?
"Acquired, reversible change in differentiation"
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How does metaplasia occur?
Genes activated due to environmental stimulus
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What is squamous metaplasia?
Complex > simple
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What is an example of glandular metaplasia?
Squamous epithelium to columnar epithelium due to gastric reflux (Barrett's oesophagus)
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How can metaplasia increase the risk of dysplasia?
Mitotic division to replace cells can increase risk of mutation
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What is dysplasia?
Abnormal differentiation or organisation
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How can dysplasia occur?
"Increase in division, different cell communication due to metaplasia/injury, genetics, environment"
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Where does dysplasia occur?
Tissues undergoing insult
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What might dysplasia develop into?
Neoplasia
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What is required for dysplasia to develop into neoplasia?
Mutations that allow progenitor cells to continue indefinitely
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What is the difference between neoplastic and dysplastic growth?
Displastic growth is controlled and finite
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What stops neoplasm?
No oxygen/nutrients