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Bone Physiology and Pathology, Exams of Nursing

A comprehensive overview of bone physiology and pathology, covering topics such as bone formation, growth, and remodeling, as well as various bone-related conditions and their diagnostic features. It delves into the mechanisms of bone healing, the role of ossification sites, the effects of growth plate disruptions, and the impact of factors like nutrition, exercise, and hormones on bone health. The document also explores common bone pathologies, including fractures, osteoporosis, and hyperparathyroidism, detailing their causes, symptoms, and radiological characteristics. Additionally, it discusses the importance of vitamin d, calcium, and phosphate homeostasis in maintaining proper bone function. This detailed information can be valuable for students and professionals in fields related to musculoskeletal health, such as medicine, physical therapy, and sports science.

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most versatile type of connective tissue - ✔✔fibroblasts
what can fibroblast differentiate into? - ✔✔
-bone
-fat
-smooth muscle
-cartilage
when do fibroblast become cartilage? - ✔✔when in an enviornment without oxygen and cartilage is
avascular
when does cartilage become fibroblast - ✔✔when oxygen is introduced to the cartilage is morphs back
what cells produce type I collagen? - ✔✔
bone
fat
smooth muscle
what cells produce type II collagen? - ✔✔cartilage
least specialized cell in body - ✔✔fibroblasts
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most versatile type of connective tissue - ✔✔fibroblasts what can fibroblast differentiate into? - ✔✔

  • bone
  • fat
  • smooth muscle
  • cartilage when do fibroblast become cartilage? - ✔✔when in an enviornment without oxygen and cartilage is avascular when does cartilage become fibroblast - ✔✔when oxygen is introduced to the cartilage is morphs back what cells produce type I collagen? - ✔✔ bone fat smooth muscle what cells produce type II collagen? - ✔✔cartilage least specialized cell in body - ✔✔fibroblasts
  • allows it to morph easily

what embryonic derivative are fibroblast - ✔✔mesodermal derivative what do fibroblasts secrete? - ✔✔extracellular matrix

  • collagen
  • prosteoglycans
  • elastin
  • fibronectin and other structural proteins what is collagen - ✔✔-present in almost all organs
  • holds cells together
  • gives tissue structural integrity mammalian protein - ✔✔25% of all mammalian protein is collagen signs and symptoms a patient with collagen synthesis disorder may present with - ✔✔-excessive bleeding
  • hypermobility
  • joint laxity
  • bone fragility
  • slower healing time sign vs. symptom - ✔✔sign- what doctor observes symptom- what patient complains of collagen synthesis stages - ✔✔1. intracellular stage
  1. extracellular stage

purpose of having the set structure of the chain - ✔✔allows it to be durable with extensions preventing rotation hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine - ✔✔-not added to chain as is

  • proline and lysine are hydroxylated after they are incorporated into the chain (OH is added after) what does hydroxylation require? - ✔✔enzymes! hydroxylating enzymes! - ✔✔-Lysyl hydroxylase: acts on lysine in X or Y position
  • Prolyl- 4 - hydroxylase: acts on proline in Y position
  • Prolyl- 3 - hydroxylase: acts on proline in the X position what must be present in order for hydroxylation to occur in intracellular stage - ✔✔-ferrous ion on the enzyme (Fe2+)
  • molecular oxygen
  • ascorbic acid (Vit C)
  • alpha ketogluterate carboxylation occurs with what.. - ✔✔glucose and galactose what is combined to make Procollagen - ✔✔3 alpha chains twisted together
  • leaves fibroblast and enters extracellular space what connects the 3 alpha chains - ✔✔hydrogen bonds what happens first in extracellular stage? - ✔✔cleave off terminal extension from the procollagen molecule

requires enzyme procollagen peptidase tropocollagen - ✔✔-when terminal extensions are gone

  • immature collagen and doesn't have necessary tensile strength how is a mature collagen fiber formed - ✔✔further cross linking via inter and intrachain hydrogen bonds necessary Scurvy - ✔✔-hydroxylation step is interrupted
  • problem adding OH group *reversible with with C Ehlers-Danlos and Dermatospiraxis - ✔✔ED- in humans Derm- in cattles problem with procollagen peptidase
  • cant put molecules of collagen together (structure is compromised)
  • increased risk of infection hereditary problems with collagen synthesis - ✔✔-marfans syndrome
  • osteogenesis imperfecta bone function - ✔✔-protection
  • support
  • mechanical basis for movement
  • hematopoiesis
  • mineral storage

ex. axial and appendicular bones how are a majority of bones formed - ✔✔endrochondral bones what does bone heal with - ✔✔itself. bone heals with bone how many sites of ossification do bones have - ✔✔carpals and tarsals- carilage is replaced at primary site of ossification vertebrae and long bones have multiple sites of ossification- primary, secondary, and tertiary what happens with bone formation at the end of puberty - ✔✔-rate of ossification exceeds growth of epiphyseal cartilage proliferation and growth plate closes ends in females 3 years before males what pathological condition might show the presence of alkaline phosphatase in a blood test - ✔✔osteosarcoma can show how aggressive or how much of the skeletal system is involved in the pathology what may happen is theres a disruption of the growth plate - ✔✔effect the length of the bone what could cause a disruption in the growth plate - ✔✔-fracture through growth plate

  • nutritional issues
  • infection

Polio - ✔✔infection that affects the growth plate results in the effected limb being shorter poliomyelitis - ✔✔pathology of growth plates

  • frequent cause of improper growth of a limb
  • mechanism of the disease is unknown two ways to prevent limb length discrepancies - ✔✔-remove growth plate
  • pressure on growth plate by stapling the epiphysis to metaphysis how does membranous bone grow - ✔✔process of accretion accretion - ✔✔process of adding bone to the surface and edges of the bones ex. closure of the fontanels what secretes the bone matrix - ✔✔osteoblasts that are at the surface of the exisiting matrix appositional bone growth - ✔✔-osteocyte
  • osteoid (junk in matrix: yet to be turned into bone)
  • ossification ability of bone to adapt - ✔✔wolff's law:
  • depositing bone matrix
  • eroding bone matrix wolffs law governing bone remodeling - ✔✔-distal segment moves in relation to proximal segment

what is the most common lesion in the bone - ✔✔fracture how does a bone fail? - ✔✔overcomes the tensile and compressive strengths of the bone what factors can predispose bone to fail? - ✔✔-trauma

  • malnutrition
  • infection pathologic fracture - ✔✔-fracture through a diseased bone
  • pre-existing conditions that compromise the structure of bone (more susceptible to structural fracture) are all fractures pathologies? - ✔✔yes are all fractures pathologic fractures? - ✔✔no! what factors influence fracture repair - ✔✔location, severity, age, general health, etc. children heal faster what are the 3 phases of fracture repair - ✔✔Phase I- Inflammatory phase Phase II- Reparative Phase Phase III- Remodeling phase Time line of fracture repair phases - ✔✔Phase I- onset to about 10 days Phase II- one week to a few months Phase III- several weeks on
  • fracture will eventually reunion but will always be remodeling Inflammatory phase (1-2 days post fracture) - ✔✔1. rupture of blood vessels in soft tissue and bone
  1. Hematoma fills gaps and seals off fracture
  2. tearing of the periosteum (highly innervated and painful)
  3. Necrosis of bone and soft tissue- due to interrupted blood flow Inflammatory phase (2-5 days post fracture) - ✔✔1. fibrin mesh develops
  4. fibroblasts migrate to the area (become chondrocytes due to damaged blood vessels)
  5. begin to form and lay down cartilage between bone ends
  6. necrosis and macrophage activity continues (PMNs) Inflammatory phase (5-10 days post fracture) - ✔✔1. soft tissue callus (procallus) begins to form - accumulation of cartilage
  7. macrophage activity continues- discontinuity becomes wider due to cleaning of debris Reparative Phase - ✔✔1. early part continuous with latter part of inflammatory phase
  8. osteoclasts and mononuclear cells clean up debris
  9. extensive neovascularization
  10. fracture may appear wider on x-ray
  11. callus formation begins (vascularization starting- hazy cloud in area of discontinuity)
  12. significant osteoblastic activity occuring what must be present to change cartilage to bone? - ✔✔vasculature! Remodeling phase - ✔✔1. occurs once callus has stabilized bone
  13. bone adjusts its strength and shape clinical union - ✔✔implies fracture is stable
  • pointed ends (skiing accidents) Bone Bruise - ✔✔-hemorrhage, edema, trabecular microfracture
  • not seen on radiographs; need to do MRI
  • deep ache in the bone (fluid black on T1; fluid white on T2 for MRI) open vs closed fractures - ✔✔also know as compound vs. simple closed- does not break skin open- breaks skin; exposed to outside world imcomplete vs. complete fractures - ✔✔-refers to discontinuities in cortex or bones
  • complete more likely to cause displacement greenstick or torus fractures - ✔✔-incomplete fractures in skeletally immature individuals
  • buckling or bending occurs due to the 1:1 ratio of inorganic to organic ratio avulsion fracture - ✔✔-forcible ripping or tearing of tissue
  • tearing away of bone fragment
  • pull from ligament, tendon, or muscle clay shoveler or coal miners fracture - ✔✔-avulsion of lower cervical segment spinous process
  • traps ripped them off

occult fracture - ✔✔-radiographically invisible fracture!

  • re-radiograph in 7-10 days to look for a widening in radiolucency.. re-radiograph 2 weeks after that to look for hazy cloud
  • most common in scaphoid
  • ribs 2nd Comminuted fractures - ✔✔two or more fragments that have seperated from bone
  • crushed of pulverized bone "butterfly fragment" Noncomminuted fracture - ✔✔one break, 2 fragments compression vs. impaction fractures - ✔✔-frequently due to axial compression compression- describes vertebral fractures (ant. portion of body is shorter than post.) impaction- used for bones in extremities fatigue or stress fracture - ✔✔-abnormal stress on normal bone
  • repetitive stress causes gradual formation or microfracture stress fracture through diseased bone- a form of pathologic fracture March fracture - ✔✔-type of stress fracture
  • 2nd and 3rd metatarsal happens in boot camp what secretes alkaline phosphatase? - ✔✔osteoblasts when depositing bone

calcium in blood - ✔✔50% ionzied Ca++ is biologically active 40% is bound to albumin and is unavailable to body 10% complexed in non-ionic filterable form like Ca++ bicarbonate what regulates plasma calcium levels - ✔✔bone gut kidney GI system and calcium balance - ✔✔% of dietary intake absorbed is inversely related to intake

  • prevents overload with dietary supplements
  • dietary deprivation causes an increase in Ca++ absorption three hormones that regulate Ca++ movement between bone, gut and kidney - ✔✔1. parathyroid hormone
  1. calcitriol or Vit D (1-25)
  2. calcitonin what is the major regulator of plasma calcium - ✔✔parathyroid hormone relationship between calcium and PTH - ✔✔secretion of PTH is inversely related to plasma calcium levels *negative feedback pair
  • monitored by glands CaSR - ✔✔calcium sensing receptor on cell membrane monitors release of PTH

time of PTH half life - ✔✔less than 20 minutes

  • ionized Ca regulates PTH secretion in minutes sustained Hypercalcemia on PTH - ✔✔elevated levels of Ca++ shut down PTH synthesis and degrade stores hypertrophy of PTH - ✔✔low Ca++ levels cause constant secretion of PTH until it burns out PTH function - ✔✔raise Ca++ levels by acting on bone, kidney, and gut PTH action on bone - ✔✔-stimulates osteolysis by osteocytes in bone and osteoblasts on cell surface to remove calcium phosphate salts from bone
  • stimulates Ca++ pumps on ECF side- allows calcium to diffuse into cell from bone
  • via paracrines it stimulates production of osetoclasts and activates resorption of bone PTH on kidney - ✔✔-increase Ca++ reabsorption from distal tubule *more dramatic effect is to inhibit reabsorption of phosphate stimulates synthesis of Vit D metabolite PTh action on gut - ✔✔indirect: via calcitriol and calbinding production and release calbindin facilitates active transport of Ca++ across gut wall functions of phosphate - ✔✔-all glycolytic compounds
  • atp, adp, amp, creatine phosphate
  • nad, nadh

D2 has two more double bonds biologically act the same in body liver and vitamin D - ✔✔liver modifies it for the first time 25 (OH)D kidney and vitamin D - ✔✔ 1 - 25 (OH2)D aka calcitriol which is made under PTH influences action of 1-25 Metabolite in kidney - ✔✔-binds with cytosolic receptor and enters nucleus

  • stimulates protein synthesis of calbindin calbindin helps facilitate calcium absorption from the guy phosphate absoprtion across gut is also stimulated by Vit D action of 1-25 metabolite in bone - ✔✔stimulates bone resorption working synergistically with PTH sytosolic receptor is found in osteocytes and osteoclasts action of vitamin D - ✔✔normal mineralization of bone is dependent on vitamin D major storage site for vitamin D - ✔✔muscle muscle weakness seen with vit d deficiency calcitonin - ✔✔hormone produced by parafollicular cells of thyroid gland

PTH vs. calcitonin - ✔✔PTH raises plasma Ca++ levels to prevent hypocalcemia Calcitonin lowers plasma Ca++ levels to prevent hypercalcemia actions of calcitonin - ✔✔-binds to membrane receptors and cAMP levels increase

  • cAMP initiates calcitonin action
  • sequestration of calcium into mitochondria acts to lower cytosolic ca++ aka lowers plasma concentrations by allowing more calcium into the cells effects of calcitonin - ✔✔-rapid fall in plasma Ca++
  • inhibition of osteolysis and bone resorption
  • same results as PTH on phosphate most common cause of hyperparathyroidism - ✔✔parathyroid adenoma hyperparathyroidism - ✔✔stimulates production of osteoclasts and activates resorption of bone all constituents of bone are liberated PTH down regulates osteoblasts and inhibits collagen synthess Signs and Symptoms of Hypercalcemia - ✔✔-dulled mentation
  • lethargy
  • muscle weakness
  • hyporeflexia
  • anorexia
  • constipation