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Chapter 5
Mechanisms of Disease
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Spirochette bacteria causing
Syphillis
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Diplomonad protozoa that
causes Giardia
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Protozoan causing malaria
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Protist causing red tide
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Types of Viruses
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Ebola Virus-Hemorrhagic
fever
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West Nile Virus
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Chlamydia bacteria—gram
negative
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Spirchete bacteria causing
lyme disease
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Pathogenic aminal-Ticks-transmit
spirochette bacteria
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Rash is sign of lyme disease
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Trypanosme protist carried by tsetse fly
Causes African Sleeping Sickness
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Tinea fungus causing athlete’s
foot
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What do we want to learn from
chapter 5
• Define the terms health and disease
• List and describe the basic mechanisms
of disease and risk factors associated
with disease
• List and describe five categories of
pathogenic organisms and explain how
they cause disease
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• Distinguish between the terms benign
and malignant as they apply to tumors
• Describe the pathogenesis of cancer
• Outline the events of the inflammatory
response and explain its role in disease
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Studying Disease
• Disease terminology
– Health—physical, mental, and social well-
being—not merely the absence of
disease
– Disease—an abnormality in body function
that threatens health
– Etiology—the study of the factors that
cause a disease
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Studying Disease
• Disease terminology– Idiopathic—refers to a disease with an unknown
cause
– Signs and symptoms—the objective and
subjective abnormalities associated with a disease
– Sign-observed by a doctor, objective
– Symptom-felt by the patient
– Pathogenesis—the pattern of a disease’s
development
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Studying Disease
• Patterns of disease
– Epidemiology is the study of occurrence,
distribution, and transmission of diseases
in human populations
– Endemic diseases are native to a local
region
– Epidemics occur when a disease affects
many people at the same time
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Studying Disease
• Patterns of disease, cont’d
– Pandemics are widespread, perhaps
global, epidemics--AIDS
– Discovering the cause of a disease is
difficult because many factors affect disease
transmission
– Disease can be fought through prevention
and therapy (treatment)
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Pathophysiology
• Mechanisms of disease
– Pathophysiology—the study of underlying
physiological aspects of disease
– Genetic mechanisms-ex. Sickle cell, hemophillia.
Litterally hundreds
– Infectious mechanism (pathogenic organisms and
particles)
– Neoplastic mechanism (tumors and cancer)
– Traumatic mechanism (physical and chemical
agents)
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Pathophysiology
• Mechanisms of disease, cont’d
– Metabolic mechanism (endocrine
imbalances or malnutrition ex. Graves dis.)
– Inflammatory mechanism
• Autoimmunity
• Inflammation
• Degeneration
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Pathophysiology
• Risk factors (predisposing conditions)
– Genetic factors
– Age
– Lifestyle
– Stress
– Environmental factors
– Preexisting conditions
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Viruses
– Microscopic, intracellular parasites that
consist of a nucleic acid core with a protein
coat
– Invade host cells and pirate organelles and
raw materials
– Classified by shape, nucleic acid type, and
method of reproduction
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Pathophysiology
• Mechanisms of disease
– Physical and chemical agents
– Autoimmunity-own immune system over-
responds and attacks body
– Inflammation
– Degeneration-breaking apart of tissue, ex
snakebite, poison
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Pathophysiology
• Risk factors (predisposing conditions)
– Genetic factors
– Age
– Lifestyle
– Stress
– Environmental factors
– Preexisting conditions
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Viruses
• Microscopic, intracellular parasites that consist
of a nucleic acid core with a protein coat
• Invade host cells and pirate organelles and raw
materials
• Classified by shape, nucleic acid type, and
method of reproduction
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Bacteria
• Tiny cells without nuclei
• Secrete toxins, parasitize host cells, or form
colonies
• Classification
– By growth requirements
» Aerobic—require oxygen
» Anaerobic—require no oxygen
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Bacteria
• Classification
– By staining properties (depend on composition of cell
wall)
» Gram-positive—stained purple
» Gram-negative—not stained
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Bacteria• Classification
– By shape and size
» Bacilli—rod-shaped cells
» Cocci—round cells,ex. staphylococci
» Curved or spiral rods
» Small bacteria—ex. chlamydia
• Spores—bacteria that resist unfavorable environmental conditions. Ex desert, acid
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Fungi
• Simple organisms similar to plants but lacking
chlorophyll
• Yeasts—small, single-celled fungi , ex. Vaginal
yeast infection
• Molds—large, multicellular fungi
• Mycotic infections—often resist treatment
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Pathogenic fungi, vaginal and
urinary tract yeast (A)
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Protozoa
• Large one-celled organisms that have organized
nuclei
• May infest human fluids and parasitize or destroy
cells
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Protozoa
• Major groups
– Amoebas—possess pseudopodia
– Flagellates—possess flagella
– Ciliates—possess cilia
– Sporozoa (coccidia)—enter cells during one phase of
a two-part life cycle; borne by vectors (transmitters)
during the other phase
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Protist causing red tide
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Diplomonad protozoa that
causes Giardia
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Pathogenic animals
• Large complex multicellular organisms
• Parasitize or otherwise damage human tissues
or organs
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Pathogenic Organisms
• Types of organisms and particles
– Pathogenic animals
• Major groups
– Nematodes—roundworms
– Platyhelminths—flatworms and flukes
– Arthropods—these are often vectors of disease
» Parasitic mites, ticks, lice, fleas
» Biting or stinging wasps, bees, mosquitoes,
spiders
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Prevention and Control
• Mechanisms of transmission
– Person-to-person contact
• Can be prevented by education
• Can be prevented by using aseptic technique
– Environmental contact
• Can be prevented by avoiding contact
• Can be prevented by safe sanitation practices
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Prevention and Control
• Mechanisms of transmission
– Opportunistic invasion
• Can be prevented by avoiding changes in skin
and mucous membranes
• Can be prevented by cleansing of wounds
– Transmission by a vector-lyme disease
carried by deer tick
• Can be prevented by reducing the population
of vectors and reducing contact with vectors
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Prevention and Control
• Other prevention and treatment strategies
– Vaccination—stimulates immunity
– Chemicals—destroy or inhibit pathogens
• Antibiotics—natural compounds derived from
living organisms
• Synthetic compounds (e.g., ACV and AZT for HIV)
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Tumors and Cancer
• Neoplasms (tumors)—abnormal growths
of cells
– Benign tumors remain localized
– Malignant tumors spread, forming
secondary tumors
– Metastasis—cells leave primary tumor and
start a secondary tumor at new location
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Tumors and Cancer
• Classification of tumors
– Benign, epithelial tumors
– Benign, connective tissue tumors
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Tumors and Cancer
• Classification of tumors
– Carcinomas (malignant epithelial tumors)
• Melanoma—involves melanocytes
• Adenocarcinoma—glandular cancer
– Sarcomas (connective tissue cancers)
• Lymphoma—lymphatic cancer
• Osteosarcoma—bone cancer
• Myeloma—bone marrow tumor
• Fibrosarcoma—cancer of fibrous tissue
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Tumors and Cancer
• Causes of cancer—varied and still not
clearly understood
– Cancer involves hyperplasia (growth of too
many cells) and anaplasia (development of
undifferentiated cells)
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Tumors and Cancer
• Causes of cancer
– Factors that play a role in causing cancer
• Genetic factors (e.g., oncogenes—cancer genes)
• Carcinogens—chemicals that alter genetic activity
• Age—changes in cell activity over time or accumulated
effects of cell damage
• Environment—chronic exposure to damaging substances
• Viruses—cause change in genetic ―machinery‖
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Tumors and Cancer
• Pathogenesis of cancer
– Signs of cancer
– Methods of detecting cancers
• Self-examination
• Diagnostic imaging—radiography (e.g.,
mammogram and CT scan), magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasonography
• Biopsy (e.g., Pap smear)
• Blood tests
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Tumors and Cancer
• Staging—classifying tumors by size and extent of spread
• Grading—assessing the likely pattern of a tumor’s development
• Cachexia—syndrome including appetite loss, weight loss, and general weakness
• Causes of death by cancer—secondary infections, organ failure, hemorrhage, and undetermined factors
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Tumors and Cancer
• Treatments
– Surgery
– Chemotherapy (chemical therapy)
– Radiation therapy (radiotherapy)
– Laser therapy
– Immunotherapy
– New strategies (e.g., rational drugs that target
specific molecules, enzymes, or receptors )
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Inflammation
• Inflammatory response—reduces
injury to tissues, thus maintaining
homeostasis
– Signs—redness, heat, swelling, and pain
– Inflammation mediators (histamine,
prostaglandins, and kinins)
• Some cause blood vessels to dilate, increasing
blood volume (redness and heat); white blood
cells travel quickly to injury site
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Inflammation
• The inflammatory response reduces injury to
tissues, thus maintaining homeostasis
– Inflammation mediators (histamine, prostaglandins,
and kinins)
• Some increase blood vessel permeability (causing swelling
or edema and pain); white blood cells move easily out of
vessels; irritant is diluted; and exudate accumulates
• Some attract white blood cells to injury site (chemotaxis)
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Inflammation
• Inflammatory diseases
– Inflammation can be local or systemic
(body-wide)
• Fever—high body temperature caused by a
resetting of the body’s ―thermostat‖; destroys
pathogens and enhances immunity
• Chronic inflammation can constitute a disease
itself because its causes damage to tissues