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+ | ===Response to injury=== | ||
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+ | *Limited array of ways in which to respond to injury | ||
+ | **[[Muscles - degenerative#Degeneration|Degeneration]] | ||
+ | **[[Muscles - degenerative#Necrosis|Necrosis]] | ||
+ | **[[Muscles - normal#Regeneration|Regeneration]] | ||
+ | **[[Muscles - degenerative#Atrophy|Atrophy]] | ||
+ | **[[Muscles - hyperplastic and neoplastic#Hypertrophy|Hypertrophy]] | ||
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+ | *Large number of factors indicing the changes above, e.g.: | ||
+ | **Trauma | ||
+ | **Toxins | ||
+ | **Infectious agents | ||
+ | **Nutritional deficiencies | ||
+ | **Ichaemia | ||
+ | **[[Muscles - developmental|Hereditary diseases]] | ||
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+ | |||
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+ | *Specific diagnosis is often not possible based on morphological or histological features alone | ||
+ | *Additional tests, clinical information and history are often required | ||
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+ | ===Regeneration=== | ||
+ | [[Image:Muscle regeneration.jpg|right|thumb|100px|<small><center>Muscle regeneration (Image sourced from Bristol Biomed Image Archive with permission)</center></small>]] | ||
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+ | *Skeletal muscle myofibres have substantial regenerative ability | ||
+ | *Success depends on: | ||
+ | **An intact '''sarcolemmal tube''' - to act as a support and guide | ||
+ | **Availability of '''satellite cells''' - to act as progenitor cells for new sarcoplasm production | ||
+ | **Macrophages to clear up cell debris | ||
+ | **If these conditions are not met (e.g. severe thermal damage) '''fibrosis''' will occur | ||
+ | *Stages: | ||
+ | #Nuclei in [[Muscles - degenerative#Necrosis|necrotic segement]] disappear, hyalinased sarcoplasm due to loss of normal myofibrillar structure, may separate from adjacent normal myofibrils and/or [[Muscles - degenerative#Calcification|mineralise]] | ||
+ | #Monocytes from capillaries -> macrophages in necrotic portion, satellite cells swell -> vesicular with prominent nucleoli -> mitosis (within 1-4 days after initial injury) | ||
+ | #Satellite cells move to centre | ||
+ | #Macrophages clear the sacrolemmal tube, plasmalemma disappears, shape maintained by basal lamina | ||
+ | #Satellite cells -> myoblasts (contain myosin) -> fuse forming myotubes with row of central nuclei; cytoplasmic processes fusing | ||
+ | #Growing and differentiating fibre, striations appear - formation of sarcomeres | ||
+ | #Nuclei move to peripheral position (2-3 weeks after initial injury) | ||
+ | *Regeneration by '''budding''' | ||
+ | **When conditions are not optimal, disrupted sacrolemma | ||
+ | **E.g. injection of irritating substance, trauma, [[Muscles - degenerative#Ischaemia|infarction]] | ||
+ | **Myoblasts proliferate -> sacrolamma bulges from cut part -> club-shaped with numerous central nuclei = muscle giant cells | ||
+ | *Monophasic lesions - all at same phase above | ||
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+ | ===Rigor Mortis=== | ||
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+ | *Muscles remain biochemically active after the death of an animal | ||
+ | *Following a period of relaxation, contraction and stiffening occurs | ||
+ | *Due to deficiency of ATP releasing myosin heads from their binding sites at end of power stroke | ||
+ | *Onset faster in ATP deprived animals (starvation, hunting, tetanus...) | ||
+ | *May be absent in cachetic animals | ||
+ | *Disappears due to autolysis or putrefaction | ||
+ | *See [[General Pathology - Post-Mortem Change#Rigor Mortis|general pathology]] | ||
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+ | **Damage occured at one time, e.g. trauma or one toxin exposure | ||
+ | *Multiphasic lesions - different stages as described above | ||
+ | **Ongoing damage, e.g. vitamin E - selenium deficiency, continuous exposure to toxin |
Revision as of 20:06, 18 August 2008
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Response to injury
- Limited array of ways in which to respond to injury
- Large number of factors indicing the changes above, e.g.:
- Trauma
- Toxins
- Infectious agents
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Ichaemia
- Hereditary diseases
- Specific diagnosis is often not possible based on morphological or histological features alone
- Additional tests, clinical information and history are often required
Regeneration
- Skeletal muscle myofibres have substantial regenerative ability
- Success depends on:
- An intact sarcolemmal tube - to act as a support and guide
- Availability of satellite cells - to act as progenitor cells for new sarcoplasm production
- Macrophages to clear up cell debris
- If these conditions are not met (e.g. severe thermal damage) fibrosis will occur
- Stages:
- Nuclei in necrotic segement disappear, hyalinased sarcoplasm due to loss of normal myofibrillar structure, may separate from adjacent normal myofibrils and/or mineralise
- Monocytes from capillaries -> macrophages in necrotic portion, satellite cells swell -> vesicular with prominent nucleoli -> mitosis (within 1-4 days after initial injury)
- Satellite cells move to centre
- Macrophages clear the sacrolemmal tube, plasmalemma disappears, shape maintained by basal lamina
- Satellite cells -> myoblasts (contain myosin) -> fuse forming myotubes with row of central nuclei; cytoplasmic processes fusing
- Growing and differentiating fibre, striations appear - formation of sarcomeres
- Nuclei move to peripheral position (2-3 weeks after initial injury)
- Regeneration by budding
- When conditions are not optimal, disrupted sacrolemma
- E.g. injection of irritating substance, trauma, infarction
- Myoblasts proliferate -> sacrolamma bulges from cut part -> club-shaped with numerous central nuclei = muscle giant cells
- Monophasic lesions - all at same phase above
Rigor Mortis
- Muscles remain biochemically active after the death of an animal
- Following a period of relaxation, contraction and stiffening occurs
- Due to deficiency of ATP releasing myosin heads from their binding sites at end of power stroke
- Onset faster in ATP deprived animals (starvation, hunting, tetanus...)
- May be absent in cachetic animals
- Disappears due to autolysis or putrefaction
- See general pathology
- Damage occured at one time, e.g. trauma or one toxin exposure
- Multiphasic lesions - different stages as described above
- Ongoing damage, e.g. vitamin E - selenium deficiency, continuous exposure to toxin