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CELL DEATH
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF:
DR. PROF. MEGHANAND T. NAYAK
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
DR. SHILPA DUTTA MALIK (GUIDE)
Presented by;
Dr. Mohammad Ahtesham
Khan
PG 1st
year
• CELL DEATH IS THE EVENT OF BIOLOGICAL CELL CEASING
TO CARRY OUT ITS FUNCTIONS. THIS MAY BE THE RESULT OF
THE NATURAL PROCESS OF OLD CELLS DYING AND BEING
REPLACED BY NEW ONES, AS IN PROGRAMMED CELL
DEATH, OR MAY RESULT FROM FACTORS SUCH AS DISEASES,
LOCALIZED INJURY, OR THE DEATH OF THE ORGANISM OF
WHICH THE CELLS ARE PART.
• THE BODY IS VERY GOOD AT MAINTAINING A CONSTANT
NUMBER OF CELLS. SO THERE HAS TO EXIST
MECHANISMS FOR ENSURING OTHER CELLS IN THE BODY
ARE REMOVED, WHEN APPROPRIATE.
CELL DEATH
 DEATH OF CELLS OCCURS IN TWO WAYS
1. APOPTOSIS – (PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH) VITAL PROCESS
THAT HELPS ELIMINATE UNWANTED CELLS—AN
INTERNALLY PROGRAMMED SERIES OF EVENTS EFFECTED
BY DEDICATED GENE PRODUCTS IN MULTICELLULAR
ORGANISMS
2. NECROSIS – (IRREVERSIBLE INJURY) PREMATURE DEATH
OF CELLS IN LIVING TISSUE CAUSED BY FACTORS
EXTERNAL TO THE CELL OR TISSUE—CHANGES
PRODUCED BY ENZYMATIC DIGESTION OF DEAD CELLULAR
ELEMENTS
MECHANISMS OF CELL DEATH
MECHANISMS OF CELL DEATH CAUSED BY DIFFERENT AGENTS.
HOWEVER, CERTAIN BIOCHEMICAL EVENTS ARE SEEN IN THE PROCESS
OF CELL NECROSIS:
 ATP DEPLETION
 LOSS OF CALCIUM HEMOSTASIS AND FREE CYTOSOLIC CALCIUM
 FREE RADICALS: SUPEROXIDE ANIONS, HYDROXIDE RADICALS,
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
 DEFECTIVE MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY
 MITOCHONDRIAL DAMAGE
 CYTOSKELETAL DAMAGE
APOPTOSIS
 THIS PROCESS HELPS TO ELIMINATE UNWANTED CELLS BY AN INTERNALLY
PROGRAM SERIES OF EVENTS EFFECTED BY DEDICATED GENE PRODUCTS.
WHICH SERVES SEVERAL VIRAL FUNCTIONS AND SEEN UNDER VARIOUS
SETTINGS.
 DURING DEVELOPMENTAL, FOR REMOVAL OF EXCESS CELLS DURING
EMBRYOGENESIS
 TO MAINTAIN CELL POPULATION IN TISSUES WITH HIGH TURNOVER OF CELLS,
SUCH AS SKIN.
 TO ELIMINATE IMMUNE CELLS AFTER CYTOKINES DEPLETION, AND
AUTOREACTIVE T-CELLS IN DEVELOPING THYMUS
 TO REMOVE DAMAGED CELLS BY VIRUS
 TO REMOVES CELLS WITH DNA DAMAGE BY RADIATION, CYTOTOXIC AGENTS
ETC.
 HORMONE-DEPENDENT INVOLUTION – ENDOMETRIUM, OVARY, BREASTS ETC
 CELL DEATH IN TUMORS
IN THE HUMAN BODY ~ 1 MILLION CELLS
ARE PRODUCED EVERY SECOND BY MITOSIS
AND A SIMILAR NUMBER DIE BY APOPTOSIS
DEVELOPMENT AND MORPHOGENESIS
o DURING LIMB FORMATION, SEPARATE
DIGITS EVOLVE
o ABLATION OF CELLS NO LONGER NEEDED
(TADPOLE)
HOMEOSTASIS
o IMMUNE SYSTEM
o > 95% T AND B CELLS DIE DURING
MATURATION (NEGATIVE SELECTION)
DELETION OF DAMAGED/DANGEROUS
CELLS
MECHANISMS OF APOPTOSIS
APOPTOSIS CAN BE INDUCED BY VARIOUS FACTORS UNDER BOTH
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS.
IT IS AN ENERGY-DEPENDENT CASCADE OF MOLECULAR EVENTS
WHICH INCLUDE PROTEIN CLEAVAGE BY A GROUP OF ENZYMES
(CASPASES), PROTEIN CROSS-LINKING, DNA BREAKDOWN.
APOPTOSIS IS REGULATED BY A LARGE FAMILY OF GENES SOME OF
WHICH ARE INHIBITORY (BCL-2) AND SOME ARE STIMULATORY
(BAX).
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF MECHANISMS THROUGH WHICH
APOPTOSIS CAN BE INDUCED IN CELLS
THE SENSITIVITY OF CELLS TO ANY OF THESE STIMULI CAN VARY
DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF FACTORS SUCH AS:
o THE EXPRESSION OF PRO- AND ANTI-APOPTOTIC PROTEINS (EG.
THE BCL-2 PROTEINS OR THE INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS
PROTEINS).
o THE SEVERITY OF THE STIMULUS
o THE STAGE OF THE CELL CYCLE.
ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIA IN APOPTOSIS
• THE PRO-APOPTOTIC BCL-2 PROTEINS ARE OFTEN FOUND IN THE
CYTOSOL WHERE THEY ACT AS SENSORS OF CELLULAR DAMAGE OR
STRESS.
• FOLLOWING CELLULAR STRESS THEY RELOCATE TO THE SURFACE OF
THE MITOCHONDRIA WHERE ANTI-APOPTOTIC PROTEINS ARE
LOCATED.
• THIS INTERACTION BETWEEN PRO- AND ANTI-APOPTOTIC PROTEINS
DISRUPTS THE NORMAL FUNCTION OF THE ANTI-APOPTOTIC BCL-2
PROTEINS AND CAN LEAD TO THE FORMATION OF THE PORES IN
MITOCHONDRIA AND THE RELEASE OF CYTOCHROME C AND OTHER
PRO-APOPTOTIC MOLECULES FROM THE INTER-MEMBRANE SPACE.
• THIS IN TURN LEADS TO THE FORMATION OF THE APOPTOSOME AND
THE ACTIVATION OF THE CASPASE CASCADE
• THE RELEASE OF CYTOCHROME C FROM THE MITOCHONDRIA IS A
PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT EVENT IN THE INDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS.
• ONCE CYTOCHROME C HAS BEEN RELEASED INTO THE CYTOSOL IT IS
ABLE TO INTERACT WITH THE PROTEINS CALLED APAF-1. THIS LEADS
TO THE RECRUITMENT OF PRO-CASPASE 9 INTO A MULTI-PROTEIN
COMPLEX WITH CYTOCHROME C AND APAF-1.
CASPASES AND APOPTOSIS
• ONE OF THE HALLMARKS OF THE APOPTOSIS IS THE CLEAVAGE OF
CHROMOSOMAL DNA INTO NUCLEOSOMAL UNITS.
• THE CASPASES PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THIS PROCESS BY ACTIVATING
DNASES, INHIBITING DNA REPAIR ENZYMES AND BREAKING DOWN
STRUCTURAL PROTEINS IN THE NUCLEUS.
PATHWAYS OF APOPTOSIS
 The two main pathways of apoptosis are
extrinsic and intrinsic. Each requires specific
triggering signals to begin an energy-
dependent cascade of molecular events.
 Each pathway activates its own initiator
caspase (8, 9, 10) which in turn will activate
the executioner caspase 3.
 The extrinsic pathway of apoptosis begins
outside a cell when conditions in the
extracellular environment determine that a
cell must die.
 The intrinsic pathway of apoptosis begins
when an injury occurs within the cell, and
the resulting stress activates the apoptotic
pathway
MORPHOLOGY OF APOPTOSIS
 SHRINKAGE OF CELLS
 CONDENSATION OF NUCLEAR
CHROMATIN PERIPHERALLY UNDER
NUCLEAR MEMBRANE.
 FORMATION OF APOPTOTIC BODIES BY
FRAGMENTATION OF THE CELLS AND
NUCLEI. THE FRAGMENTS REMAIN
MEMBRANE-BOUND AND CONTAIN
CELL ORGANELLES WITH OR WITHOUT
NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS.
 PHAGOCYTOSIS OF APOPTOTIC BODIES
BY ADJACENT HEALTHY CELLS OR
PHAGOCYTES.
 UNLIKE NECROSIS, APOPTOSIS IS NOT
ACCOMPANIED BY INFLAMMATORY
REACTION.
• IN THIS FETAL THYMUS, THERE IS INVOLUTION
OF THYMIC LYMPHOCYTES BY THE
MECHANISM OF APOPTOSIS
• IN THIS CASE, IT IS AN ORDERLY PROCESS
AND A PART OF NORMAL IMMUNE SYSTEM
MATURATION.
• INDIVIDUAL CELLS FRAGMENT ARE
CONSUMED BY PHAGOCYTES TO GIVE THE
APPEARANCE OF CLEAR SPACES FILLED
WITH CELLULAR DEBRIS.
• GENES SUCH AS BCL-2 ARE TURNED OFF
AND BAX GENES ARE TURNED ON.
• INTRACELLULAR PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES
CALLED CASPASES PRODUCE MUCH
CELLULAR BREAKDOWN.
• APOPTOSIS IS A MORE ORDERLY
PROCESS OF CELL DEATH IN WHICH
THERE IS INDIVIDUAL CELL NECROSIS,
NOT NECROSIS OF LARGE NUMBER OF
CELLS.
• IN THIS EXAMPLE, LIVER CELLS ARE
DYING INDIVIDUALLY (ARROWS)
FROM INJURY BY VIRAL HEPATITIS. A
LARGE PINK CELL UNDERGOING
“BALLOONING DEGENERATION” CAN
BE SEEN UNDER RIGHT ARROW.
• THE CELLS ARE PINK, AND WITHOUT
NUCLEI.
NECROSIS
• NECROSIS IS THE FORM OF CELL INJURY WHICH RESULTS IN THE
PREMATURE DEATH OF CELLS IN LIVING TISSUE BY AUTOLYSIS.
• NECROSIS IS THE SUM TOTAL OF MORPHOLOGIC CHANGES THAT
FOLLOW CELL DEATH IN A LIVING TISSUE OR ORGAN
• CELLULAR DEATH DUE TO NECROSIS DOES NOT FOLLOW THE APOPTOTIC
SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY, BUT RATHER VARIOUS RECEPTORS ARE
ACTIVATED AND RESULT IN THE LOSS OF CELL MEMBRANE INTEGRITY AND
AN UNCONTROLLED RELEASE OF PRODUCTS OF CELL DEATH INTO THE
EXTRACELLULAR SPACE.
• THIS INITIATES IN THE SURROUNDING TISSUE AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE,
WHICH ATTRACTS LEUKOCYTES AND NEARBY PHAGOCYTES, WHICH
ELIMINATE THE DEAD CELLS BY PHAGOCYTOSIS.
• HOWEVER, MICROBIAL DAMAGING SUBSTANCES RELEASED BY
LEUKOCYTES WOULD CREATE COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO SURROUNDING
TISSUES
• THIS EXCESS COLLATERAL DAMAGE INHIBITS THE HEALING PROCESS. THUS,
UNTREATED, NECROSIS RESULT IN THE BUILDUP OF DECOMPOSING DEAD
TISSUE AND CELL DEBRIS AT OR NEAR THE SITE OF THE CELL DEATH.
• DEAD CELLS USUALLY SHOW CHANGES IN BOTH THE
CYTOPLASM AND IN THE NUCLEUS
• CYTOPLASMIC CHANGES
 INCREASED EOSINOPHILIA
 GLASSY APPEARANCE
 GRANULAR OR VACUOLATED CYTOPLASM
 SWOLLEN MITOCHONDRIA
 MAY ALSO SHOW CALCIFICATION
• NUCLEAR CHANGES
 KARYOLYSIS
 PYKNOSIS
 KARYORRHEXIS
CAUSES OF NECROSIS
NECROSIS MAY OCCUR DUE TO EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL FACTORS:
• EXTERNAL FACTORS MAY INVOLVE:
 MECHANICAL TRAUMA (PHYSICAL DAMAGE TO THE BODY THAT
CAUSES CELLULAR BREAKDOWN)
 DAMAGE TO BLOOD VESSELS (WHICH MAY DISRUPT BLOOD SUPPLY
TO ASSOCIATED TISSUE)
 THERMAL EFFECTS (EXTREMELY HIGH OR LOW TEMPERATURE CAN
RESULT IN NECROSIS DUE TO THE DISRUPTION OF CELLS)
• INTERNAL FACTORS CAUSING NECROSIS INCLUDES:
TROPHONEUROTIC DISORDERS: INJURY AND PARALYSIS OF
NERVE CELLS.
PANCREATIC ENZYMES (LIPASES) ARE THE MAJOR CAUSES OF
FAT NECROSIS.
IMMUNOLOGICAL BARRIERS : NECROSIS PROGRAMS IN CELL
WITH IMMUNOLOGICAL BARRIERS (INTESTINAL MUCOSA) MAY
ALLEVIATE INVASION OF PATHOGENS THROUGH SURFACES
AFFECTED BY INFLAMMATION.
BACTERIAL TOXINS: ACTIVATED NATURAL KILLER CELLS; AND
PERITONEAL MACROPHAGES.
TOXINS AND PATHOGENS MAY CAUSE NECROSIS; TOXINS, SUCH
AS SNAKE VENOM MAY INHIBIT ENZYMES AND CAUSE CELL
DEATH.
MECHANISM OF NECROSIS
• LOSS OF METABOLIC FUNCTIONS
• LOSS OF THE INTEGRITY OF THE CELL
MEMBRANE
• CESSATION OF THE PRODUCTION OF
PROTEINS AND ATP
• CELL ORGANELLES SWELL AND BECOME
NON-FUNCTIONAL
• DEPLETION OF ATP LEADS TO BREAKDOWN
OF THE CELL’S ION BALANCE
• REDUCED OXYGEN LEVEL (HYPOXIA)
• OXIDATIVE STRESS- THE PRESENCE OF
EXCESS OXYGEN RADICALS
PATTERNS OF NECROSIS IN TISSUE OR ORGANS
• AS A RESULT OF CELL DEATH THE TISSUES OR ORGANS DISPLAY
CERTAIN MACROSCOPIC CHANGES:
1. COAGULATION NECROSIS
2. LIQUEFACTIVE NECROSIS
3. FAT NECROSIS
4. CASEOUS NECROSIS
5. GANGRENOUS NECROSIS
6. FIBRINOID NECROSIS
1.COAGULATION NECROSIS
• IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE FORMATION OF
GELATINOUS (GEL-LIKE)SUBSTANCE IN THE TISSUES IN
WHICH THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE TISSUE IS
MAINTAINED.
• COAGULATION OCCURS AS A RESULT OF PROTEIN
DENATURATION, CAUSING ALBUMIN TO TRANSFORM
INTO THE FIRM AND OPAQUE STATE.
• THIS PATTERN OF NECROSIS TYPICALLY SEEN IN
HYPOXIC (LOW OXYGEN) ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS
INFARCTION.
• IT OCCURS PRIMARILY IN TISSUE SUCH AS KIDNEY,
HEART AND ADRENAL GLANDS.
• SEVERE ISCHEMIA MOST COMMONLY CAUSES
NECROSIS OF THIS FORM
2. LIQUEFACTIVE NECROSIS
• IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE DIGESTION OF DEAD
CELLS TO FORM A VISCOUS LIQUID MASS.
• THIS IS TYPICAL OF BACTERIAL, OR SOMETIMES
FUNGAL INFECTIONS, BECAUSE OF THEIR ABILITY
TO STIMULATE AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE.
• THE NECROTIC LIQUID MASS IS FREQUENTLY
CREAMY YELLOW DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DEAD
LEUKOCYTES AND IS COMMONLY KNOWN AS PUS.
• HYPOXIC INFARCTS IN THE BRAIN PRESENTS AS THIS
TYPE OF NECROSIS, BECAUSE THE BRAIN
CONTAINS LITTLE CONNECTIVE TISSUE, BUT HIGH
AMOUNT OF DIGESTIVE ENZYMES AND LIPIDS.
• LOTS OF NEUTROPHILS AND CELL DEBRIS CAN BE
SEEN.
3. FAT NECROSIS
• IT IS A SPECIALIZED NECROSIS OF FAT TISSUE,
RESULTING FROM THE ACTION OF ACTIVATED
LIPASES ON FATTY TISSUES, SUCH AS THE PANCREAS.
• IN FAT NECROSIS, NEUTRAL FATS IN ADIPOSE TISSUE
ARE SPLIT INTO FATTY ACIDS AND GLYCEROL,
USUALLY AFFECTING THE PANCREAS.
• IN THE PANCREAS, IT LEADS TO ACUTE
PANCREATITIS, A CONDITION WHERE THE
PANCREATIC ENZYMES LEAK OUT INTO THE
PERITONEAL CAVITY AND LIQUEFY THE MEMBRANE.
• CALCIUM, MAGNESIUM, OR SODIUM, MAY BIND TO
THESE LESIONS TO PRODUCE A CHALKY-WHITE
SUBSTANCE
4. CASEOUS NECROSIS
• CAN BE CONSIDERED A COMBINATION OF
COAGULATIVE AND LIQUEFACTIVE NECROSIS,
TYPICALLY CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIA(EG.
TUBERCULOSIS), FUNGI AND SOME FOREIGN
SUBSTANCES.
• THE NECROTIC TISSUE APPEARS AS WHITE AND
FRIABLE, LIKE CLUMPED CHEESE.
• DEAD CELLS DISINTEGRATE BUT ARE NOT
COMPLETELY DIGESTED, LEAVING GRANULAR
PARTICLES.
• MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION SHOWS
AMORPHOUS GRANULAR DEBRIS ENCLOSED
WITHIN A DISTINCTIVE INFLAMMATORY
BORDER
5. GANGRENOUS NECROSIS.
• IT CAN BE CONSIDERED A TYPE OF COAGULATIVE
NECROSIS THAT RESEMBLES MUMMIFIED TISSUE.
• IT IS CHARACTERISTIC OF ISCHEMIA(LOSS OF
BLOOD SUPPLY) OF LOWER LIMB AND THE
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACTS.
• SKIN LOOKS BLACK AND DEAD; UNDERLYING
TISSUE IS IN VARYING STAGE OF
DECOMPOSITION.
• INITIALLY, THERE IS COAGULATIVE NECROSIS
FROM THE LOSS OF BLOOD SUPPLY (DRY
GANGRENE), IF SUPERIMPOSED INFECTION OF
DEAD TISSUE OCCURS, THEN THERE IS
LIQUEFACTIVE NECROSIS (WET GANGRENE).
6. FIBRINOID NECROSIS
• IT IS A SPECIAL FORM OF NECROSIS
USUALLY CAUSED BY IMMUNE-MEDIATED
VASCULAR DAMAGE.
• IT IS MARKED BY COMPLEXES OF ANTIGEN
AND ANTIBODIES, REFERRED TO AS
IMMUNE COMPLEXES DEPOSITED WITHIN
ARTERIAL WALLS TOGETHER WITH FIBRIN.
• VESSEL WALLS ARE THICKENED AND
PINKISH-RED CALLED “FIBRINOID”.
ORAL CAVITY AND NECROTIC LESIONS
o TOOTH DISCOLORATION.
o PERIAPICAL GRANULOMA
o PERIAPICAL ABSCESS
o OSTEORADIONECROSIS
o OSTEOMYELITIS
o NECROTIZING ULCERATIVE GINGIVITIS
(VINCENT’S INFECTION)
o ZYGOMYCOSIS
o KAPOSI’S SARCOMA
o TRAUMATIC ULCERATIONS
• CHEMOTHERAPY-RELATED EPITHELIAL
NECROSIS
• WEGENER’S GRANULOMATOSIS
• ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
• SUBACUTE NECROTIZING SIALADENITIS
• SIALADENOSIS (ISCHEMIC)
• MUCOEPIDERMOID CARCINOMA
• ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA
• ANGIOCENTRIC T-CELL LYMPHOMA
• CEMENTO-OSSEOUS DYSPLASIA
• SIMPLE BONE CYST
(TRAUMATIC/HEMORRHAGIC)
Based on etiology, pathogenesis of oral diseases, the following lesions
are listed under necrotic lesions:
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