Cell injury-2

1. Cell injury-2

2. Fatty Change * Definition: abnormal accumulation of triglycerides within parenchymal cells. * Site: • liver, most common site which has a central role in fat metabolism. • it may also occur in heart as in anaemia or starvation (anorexia nervosa) • Other sites: skeletal muscle, kidney and other organs.

3. * Causes: • Toxins(most importantly: Alcohol abuse) • Diabetes mellitus • Protein malnutrition (starvation) • Obesity • Anoxia

4. * The significance of fatty change: • Depends on the severity of the accumulation. • Mild:it may have no effect . • Severe: form, fatty change may precede cell death, and may be an early lesion in a serious liver disease called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

6. * Morphological features of fatty liver: *Grossly: • Size: enlarged. • Shape: preserved. • Surface: smooth. • Color: yellowish. • Consistency: soft & greasy. • Capsule: stretched (non-adherent). • C/S: bulges out with rounded edges.

8. *Microscopically: • The cells are swollen, the cytoplasm contains droplets of fat (in mild cases) termed microvesicularsteatosis, or vacuoles pushing the nucleus to one side in severe cases (signet ring appearance) termed macrovesicularsteatosis. • Fat appears as empty vacuoles in Haematoxyline & Eosin stained sections but stained in frozen sections by fat stains e.g. Oil Red O stain.

11. Fatty liver; Oil Red O stain

12. Disorders of Pigmentation

13. A. Endogenous pigmentationI. Melanin pigment

14. Albinism Leucoderma

15. Chloasma Nevus

16. II. Lipochrome (lipofuscin) pigment • It is a yellowish brown pigment, which is found normally in heart, liver, testis, seminal vesicles & adrenals. • Increases in old age & in atrophic conditions e.g. Brown atrophy of the heart.

17. Here is the centrilobular portion of liver next to a central vein. The cells have reduced in size or been lost from hypoxia. The pale brown-yellow pigment is lipochrome that has accumulated as the atrophic and dying cells undergo autophagocytosis.

18. III. Hemoglobin-derived pigment

19. Jaundice

20. Hemosiderosis * Causes of Hemosiderosis: • Increased absorption of dietary iron • Hemolytic anemias • Repeated blood transfusions. • Hereditary hemochromatosis with tissue injury including liver fibrosis, heart failure, and diabetes mellitus .

21. It is found at first in the mononuclear phagocytes of the liver, bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes and in scattered macrophages throughout other organs. • With progressive accumulation, parenchymal cells throughout the body (principally the liver, pancreas, heart, and endocrine organs) will be affected

22. Hemosiderin H&E: golden brown pigmentPrussian blue stain: blue

23. Exogenous Pigmentations

25. Lung anthracosis

26. Lymph node anthracosis

27. Pathological calcification • It implies the abnormal deposition of calcium salts in tissues rather than bone and teeth. • It has 2 types: • Dystrophic calcification: • When the deposition occurs in dead or dying tissues e.g. areas of necrosis or atherosclerotic patches. • it occurs with normal serum levels of calcium • Metastatic calcification: • The deposition of calcium salts in normal tissues • It almost always reflects hypercalcemia.

28. Irreversible cell injury

29. * Mechanism of irreversible cell injury: • Persistent or severe injury (hypoxia) takes the cell to the "point of no return" where the injury becomes irreversible. • At this point no intervention can save the cell. • Severe mitochondrial damage is the hallmark of irreversible injury.

30. Mitochondrial damage • Marked reduction in ATP production leads to mitochondrial damage results in formation of high conductance channels (Mitochondrial Permeability Transition (MPT) channels)which Release cytochrome c into cytosol which is a trigger for cell death (apoptosis).

31. MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION or INJURY ↓ATP production H+ Cytochrome C Mitochondrial Permeability Transition (MPT) Apoptosis

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