Cell Injury & Death
This reversible cell injury is characterized by cellular swelling.
What is hydropic change?
Tissue with cilia and goblet cells lining the trachea.
What is pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium?
Gram-positive cocci in clusters.
What is Staphylococcus?
Stain used for general tissue morphology.
What is H&E?
Yellowing of skin due to bilirubin buildup.
What is jaundice?
Programmed cell death involving caspases.
What is apoptosis?
Simple epithelium specialized for diffusion in alveoli.
What is simple squamous epithelium?
Acid-fast bacterium causing TB.
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
Technique separating proteins by size using SDS.
What is SDS-PAGE?
Crushing chest pain radiating to the left arm.
What is myocardial infarction?
Uncontrolled cell death that triggers inflammation.
What is necrosis?
Tissue with striations and multiple peripheral nuclei.
What is skeletal muscle?
Virus that infects CD4+ T cells.
What is HIV?
Method to detect specific proteins using antibodies.
What is Western blot?
Elevated HbA1c indicates this disease.
What is diabetes mellitus?
Type of necrosis seen in tuberculosis.
What is caseous necrosis?
Identified by Haversian systems.
What is compact bone?
Parasite responsible for malaria.
What is Plasmodium?
Technique to amplify DNA.
What is PCR?
“Butterfly rash” on the face.
What is lupus?
Cell death due to ischemia followed by reperfusion injury involving ROS.
What is oxidative stress–mediated injury?
Lymphoid tissue with germinal centers.
What is a lymph node?
Opportunistic fungus seen in immunocompromised patients causing pneumonia.
What is Pneumocystis jirovecii?
Technique measuring gene expression via fluorescence amplification.
What is qPCR?
Reed-Sternberg cells are associated with this cancer.
What is Hodgkin lymphoma?