Molecular Mechanisms of Apoptosis
Apoptosis is HY for the USMLE Step 1. Here is my attempt to illustrate the molecular basis of apoptosis summarized from Robins.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
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- Mike
- I've just finished my first two years at St. George's University, passed my boards, and am soon to start rotations close to home in Brooklyn. I hope to keep you updated with concepts and memory tools mixed with a few "words of wisdom" here and there as they come to me from somewhere above. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated.
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I really like this one since I am studying for the path shelf escpecially since you put the genes which I usually overlook when studying. I sometimes forget that apoptosis is not just "programmed cell death" but can be lymphocyte mediated. My question though is doesn't a lymphocytic response constitute inflammation and as such come under necrosis. But again maybe it depends on the inciting event and that lymphocytes can be in inflammatory as well as apoptotic reactions.
Apoptosis can be lymphocyte mediated such as in hepatitis when CD8+ T cells but NOT the hepatitis virus are responsible for causing hepatocytes to die(a classic pathology question). They do this via the lymphocyte mediated pathway involving the FAS-FASligand pathway as I drew out on the left side of that diagram. These hepatocytes can then be seen as council-men bodies under the light microscope. There is no inflammation though since this is not an inflammatory process.
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