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Acute inflammation, healing and repair

Introduction Inflammation is an almost universal response to tissue damage by a wide range of harmful stimuli, including mechanical trauma, tissue necrosis and infection. The purpose of inflammation is to destroy (or contain) the damaging agent, initiate repair processes and return the damaged tissue to useful function. Inflammation is somewhat arbitrarily divided into acute and chronic inflammation , but, in reality, the two often form a…

Cellular responses to injury

Introduction In response to environmental changes, cells have to adapt in the face of physiological and pathological stimuli that seek to disturb their normal homeostatic milieu. This process is called cellular adaptation and includes mechanisms such as an increase in cell size (hypertrophy) or an increase in cell number (hyperplasia) . Other examples of cellular adaptation include metaplasia , which can be defined as a change…

Introduction to pathology

Overview of the practice of pathology Pathology, also referred to as histopathology, anatomical pathology or morbid anatomy, is the study of abnormal or diseased tissues and organs. This book is intended for the student approaching histopathology for the first time and aims to give a thorough but concise grounding, both in basic pathological processes and in specific diseases of the various organs and systems. Pathology is…