Pathology 3240A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Respiratory Epithelium, Weight Training, Neoplasm

• School: Western University
• Department: Pathology
• Course: Pathology 3240A
• Professor: Aaron Haig

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At the end of this lesson the student should be able to understand the various ways in which the cell can respond to damaging stimuli and more specifically: Be able to list several causes or agents of cell injury. Define and give appropriate physiological and pathological examples of cellular adaptation, i. e. 1. Describe coagulative, liquefactive, fat, caseous, and gangrenous necrosis and be able to give an. Be able to describe the morphological changes that. Describe the mechanism of cell injury and/or death in response to decreased oxygen. Provide examples of physiological (e. g. lipofuscin, melanin) and pathological intracellular. 1. reduced demand leads to atrophy of organs, it is defined as a decrease in mass due to the shrinkage in cell size: if you don"t use it you lose it , atrophy can be physiological or pathological. Hyperplasia increase in the number of cells caused by cell division.