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Published 12/28/2023 An increase in stress on an organ leads to?
Published 12/28/2023 By what three general processes does cellular hypertrophy occur?
Published 12/28/2023 By what general mechanism does hyperplasia occur?
Published 12/28/2023 Is the pregnant uterus an example of hypertrophy or hyperplasia?
Published 12/28/2023 What is a permanent tissue? Can a permanent tissue grow? What are the (3) permanent tissues?
Published 12/28/2023 How does the heart respond to persistent hypertension? What are the two basic types of cardiac hypertrophy and what causes them? 
Published 12/28/2023 What concern exists with endometrial hyperplasia? What hyperplastic process doesn't carry this same concern?
Published 12/28/2023 What are three examples of "decreases in stress" that lead to atrophy?
Published 12/28/2023 What cellular changes does atrophy represent?
Published 12/28/2023 How is cell number decreased in an atrophic process?
Published 12/28/2023 In what two ways is cell size reduced in atrophy?
Published 12/28/2023 What is ubiquitin-proteosome degradation?
Published 12/28/2023 How does autophagy occur in atrophy?
Published 12/28/2023 What does a change in stress on an organ lead to?
Published 12/28/2023 What is metaplasia?
Published 12/28/2023 Describe the metaplastic process observed in Barrett esophagus: 
Published 12/28/2023 How does metaplasia occur?
Published 12/28/2023 Is metaplasia reversible?
Published 12/28/2023 How do you treat Barrett esophagus?
Published 12/28/2023 Are we concerned about metaplastic processes?
Published 12/28/2023 Does all metaplasia lead to cancer? Can you name a metaplastic process that has 0% chance of causing cancer?
Published 12/28/2023 What processes is vitamin A essential for?
Published 12/28/2023 Describe the pathological effects of vitamin A deficiency: 
Published 12/28/2023 What is myositis ossificans?
Published 12/28/2023 What is dysplasia?
Published 12/28/2023 What pathologic proliferation is a precursor to cervical cancer? How is it categorized?
Published 12/28/2023 What processes can precede a dysplastic process?
Published 12/28/2023 Is dysplasia reversible?
Published 12/28/2023 What is aplasia? Example?
Published 12/28/2023 What is hypoplasia? Example?
Published 12/28/2023 When does cellular injury occur?
Published 12/28/2023 Which is more susceptible to ischemic injury: neurons or skeletal myocytes?
Published 12/28/2023 How does the rapidity of a stressor affect the response of the cells (e.g. ischemia)?
Published 12/28/2023 What are 5 common causes of cellular injury?
Published 12/28/2023 How does hypoxia cause cellular injury?
Published 12/28/2023 What is ischemia?
Published 12/28/2023 What 3 pathologies/pathologic states can cause ischemia?
Published 12/28/2023 What is hypoxemia (be numerically specific)?
Published 12/28/2023 List 4 causes of hypoxemia:
Published 12/28/2023 3 general causes of hypoxia (in a tissue):
Published 12/28/2023 When does decreased O2 carrying capacity arise? Examples?
Published 12/28/2023 How does CO poisoning reduce O2 carrying capacity? 
Published 12/28/2023 What are the PaO2 and SaO2 in anemia? CO poisoning?
Published 12/28/2023 Common exposures to CO?
Published 12/28/2023 What's the classic physical finding in CO poisoning? Other findings?
Published 12/28/2023 What is methemoglobinemia?
Published 12/28/2023 PaO2 and SaO2 in methemoglobinemia?
Published 12/28/2023 Under what conditions does methemoglobinemia occur?
Published 12/28/2023 What's the classic finding in methemoglobinemia?
Published 12/28/2023 Tx for methemoglobinemia?
Published 12/28/2023 What cellular functions does low ATP affect? Consequences?
Published 12/28/2023 Is cellular injury reversible? What's the hallmark of reversible injury?
Published 12/28/2023 What histologic findings indicate reversible injury?
Published 12/28/2023 What is the hallmark of irreversible cellular injury?
Published 12/28/2023 What are the consequences of specific membranes in the cell being damaged?
Published 12/28/2023 What is the morphologic hallmark of cell death? How does it occur?
Published 12/28/2023 What are the 2 types of cell death?
Published 12/28/2023 Describe the main differences between necrosis and apoptosis
Published 12/28/2023 Describe coagulative necrosis
Published 12/28/2023 When and where does coagulative necrosis occur?
Published 12/28/2023 How do you recognize an organ that has undergone coagulative (vs. other) necrosis?
Published 12/28/2023 When does red infarction arise? Examples?
Published 12/28/2023 What is liquefactive necrosis?
Published 12/28/2023 When and where does liquefactive necrosis occur (3)?
Published 12/28/2023 When does acute inflammation arise?
Published 12/28/2023 What type(s) of necrosis are associated with the pancreas?
Published 12/28/2023 What are the types of necrosis?
Published 12/28/2023 What is gangrenous necrosis?
Published 12/28/2023 Where does gangrenous necrosis most often occur (2 places)?
Published 12/28/2023 Describe caseous necrotic tissue
Published 12/28/2023 When does caseous necrosis occur? What is it?
Published 12/28/2023 What is fat necrosis?
Published 12/28/2023 Where and how does fat necrosis occur?
Published 12/28/2023 What is dystrophic calcification?
Published 12/28/2023 What does fat necrosis have to do with dystrophic calcification?
Published 12/28/2023 What are the serum Ca and P levels in dystrophic calcification? metastatic calcification?
Published 12/28/2023 What's the differential for Ca2+ deposits in the breast?
Published 12/28/2023 Why might a patient with fat necrosis think they have breast cancer?
Published 12/28/2023 What is fibrinoid necrosis?
Published 12/28/2023 How do you identify fibrinoid necrosis?
Published 12/28/2023 For what two general pathologies can fibrinoid necrosis occur?
Published 12/28/2023 What is malignant hypertension?
Published 12/28/2023 What kind of necrosis would pre-eclampsia lead to?
Published 12/28/2023 What is a free radical?
Published 12/28/2023 What is apoptosis?
Published 12/28/2023 Three examples of physiologically appropriate apoptosis?
Published 12/28/2023 Describe the morphologic changes in the apoptotic process
Published 12/28/2023 What are the main enzymatic mediators of apoptosis? How do they work?
Published 12/28/2023 In what 3 ways can caspases be activated?
Published 12/28/2023 What is Bcl2?
Published 12/28/2023 What kinds of events lead to the inactivation of Bcl2? What's the consequence?
Published 12/28/2023 What is the extrinsic receptor-ligand pathway? How does CD95 play a role? 
Published 12/28/2023 What is the cytotoxic CD8 T cell-mediated pathway?
Published 12/28/2023 When does apoptosis occur in aberrant T cell maturation?
Published 12/28/2023 What are the 2 ways a cytotoxic T cell kills cells expressing foreign Ag?
Published 12/28/2023 What process is involved in physiologic free radical generation?
Published 12/28/2023 What enzyme transfers electrons to O2, the final electron acceptor?
Published 12/28/2023 What are the free radicals produced in oxidative phosphorylation? How many accepted electrons does each radical state represent? 
Published 12/28/2023 When does pathologic generation of free radicals arise (5 scenarios)?
Published 12/28/2023 How does ionizing radiation generate free radicals?
Published 12/28/2023 What is the most damaging free radical?
Published 12/28/2023 How does inflammation generate free radicals?
Published 12/28/2023 Which metals create free radicals? Through which reaction?
Published 12/28/2023 How do drugs and chemicals create free radicals?
Published 12/28/2023 How do our bodies eliminate free radicals (3 modalities)?
Published 12/28/2023 What antioxidants do our bodies use?
Published 12/28/2023 What enzymes do our bodies use to eliminate free radicals? Mechanism of each?
Published 12/28/2023 What are 2 examples of metal carrier proteins that reduce free radical damage?
Published 12/28/2023 What is the mechanism of tissue damage in hemochromatosis and Wilson dz?
Published 12/28/2023 What 2 key features will indicate an apoptotic cell?
Published 12/28/2023 What is CCl4 and what is its significance? What cellular and gross changes will be seen?
Published 12/28/2023 How does reperfusion injury work? How will you detect it?
Published 12/28/2023 What is amyloidosis?
Published 12/28/2023 What are the shared features among all amyloid?
Published 12/28/2023 Where does amyloid deposition occur (types)?
Published 12/28/2023 What is primary amyloidosis? What conditions is it associated with?
Published 12/28/2023 What is secondary amyloidosis?
Published 12/28/2023 What is SAA (serum amyloid associated) protein? In what three conditions is it increased? 
Published 12/28/2023 What is Familial Mediterranean Fever? 
Published 12/28/2023 Classic clinical findings of systemic amyloidosis (5)? 
Published 12/28/2023 What is senile cardiac amyloidosis? 
Published 12/28/2023 What is familial amyloid cardiomyopathy? 
Published 12/28/2023 Compare and contrast Familial Amyloid Cardiomyopathy and Senile Cardiac Amyloidosis: 
Published 12/28/2023 What kind of amyloidosis are noninsulin-dependent diabetics (T2DM) at risk for developing?
Published 12/28/2023 What is the type of amyloid that is deposited in dialysis associated amyloidosis? 
Published 12/28/2023 How is amyloid associated with medullary carcinoma of the thyroid?
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