Section outline

  • Chapter objectives:

    • To teach the students about concept of cell adaptation,cell injury, cell death and overall disease development so that they can use the knowledge in their academic and professional career as well as own health.


    Lecture Outcome:

    • Definition of cell adaptation
    • Ways of cell adaptation
    • Definition of cell injury
    • Causes and mechanism of cell injury
    • Causes, types and mechanism of cell death  

    Lecture Content:

    • Adaptation (Hyperplasia, hypertropy, atrophy, metaplasia etc. )
    • Cell injury ( Definition, types, causes, mechanism)
    • Cell death ( necrosis, apoptosis)
    • Intracellular accumulation, pathological calcification.