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[Malarial pigment][Malarial pigment]
• HGB derived
• Precise composition is not known
• Golden brown granular
• Seen only in Macrophages
• Forms a complex with proteins
• Prussian blue negative](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/cellinjuryadaptation-7-151101072036-lva1-app6892/85/Cell-injuryadaptation-7-23-320.jpg)
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Cell injuryadaptation 7
This document summarizes different types of intracellular pigments, including exogenous pigments that come from outside the body like carbon, iron, and silica, as well as endogenous pigments synthesized within the body like lipofuscin, melanin, hemosiderin, hematin, and bilirubin. It provides examples of different pigments, how they are demonstrated, their origins, locations in the body, and associations with certain diseases.
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- 2. PigmentsPigments • They arecoloured substances • They may occur normally or in abnormal circumstances • They differ in their chemical nature, origin and biological significance
- 3. PigmentsPigments Types: 1.Exogenous (coming fromout side the body) 2.Endogenous (synthesized within the body)
- 4. PigmentsPigments Types: • Exogenous (comingfrom out side the body) Examples: 1. Carbon (anthracosis) 2. Iron (siderosis) 3. Silica (silicosis) 4. Various pigments used in tattooing
- 5. PigmentsPigments Types: • Endogenous (synthesizedwithin the body) Examples: 1. Lipofuscin 2. Melanin 3. Hemosiderin 4. Hematin 5. Bilirubin
- 6. Pigments - LipofuscinPigments- Lipofuscin ““Wear and tear”Wear and tear” pigment Sign of free radical injury and lipid peroxidation Character: yellow brown Finely granular Location: cytoplasm, perinuclear Organs involved: Heart / Liver Causes: aging, malnutrition, wasting illness, patients receiving radiotherapy
- 7. Pigments - LipofuscinPigments- Lipofuscin EM: autophagic vacuoles perinuclear position lipid densities Examples: Brown atrophy of the heart
- 8. Brown atrophy ofheart
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- 10. Pigments - MelaninPigments- Melanin Appears black (melas = black gr ) Source: dendritic melanophages of the skin Formed due to the action of tyrosinase on tyrosine with the formation of DOPA
- 11. Pigments - MelaninPigments- Melanin Excessive production: 1. Exposure to sun light 2. Addison’s disease 3. Chloasma Decreased production: 1. Vitiligo 2. Albinism 3. Pituitary failure 4. Damage to sensory nerves
- 12. Pigments - MelaninPigments- Melanin Demonstration: DOPA reaction Fontana-Masson’s stain
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- 17. This patient complainsof weakness and has very low BP
- 19. Pigments - HemosiderinPigments- Hemosiderin • HGB derived • Golden-yellow coloured • Storage form of iron is ferritin/hemosiderin • When there is excess iron ferritin forms hemosiderin (Lysosomes) • Demonstrated by Prussian blue reaction (Perl’s stain)– blue black granules
- 20. Pigments - HemosiderinPigments- Hemosiderin Local excess: • Hemorrhages • Bruising Systemic overload Hemosiderosis (deposition in organs / tissues) Causes: increased intake, hemolytic anemia, transfusions Hemochromatosis
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- 23. Pigments – HematinPigments– Hematin [Malarial pigment][Malarial pigment] • HGB derived • Precise composition is not known • Golden brown granular • Seen only in Macrophages • Forms a complex with proteins • Prussian blue negative
- 24. The chest andabdominal cavities are opened here at autopsy. The lungs in the chest have a normal pink aerated appearance with minimal anthracotic pigmentation, because this 80-year-old man never smoked and never allowed smoking in his workplace. The mediastinum contains mostly fat. The pericardial sac around the heart has not been opened.The diaphragmatic domes extend upward to the level of the 6th ribs.
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Editor's Notes
- #9 Virtually all cardiac diseases lead to an enlarged heart. Here is a rare example of "brown atrophy" in which the heart is small, with chocolate brown myocardium. In this condition, there is excessive lipochrome (lipofuscin) deposition within the myocardial fibers. Aging and malnutrition may favor this process, which results from cellular autophagocytosis.
- #10 8th Edition: FIGURE 1-33 Lipofuscin granules in a cardiac myocyte shown by (A) light microscopy (deposits indicated by arrows), and (B) electron microscopy (note the perinuclear, intralysosomal location).
- #14 This is normal skin from a person with a dark complexion. The amount of skin pigmentation varies among races and individuals. Melanin is made in melanosomes in melanocytes that are interspersed with basal cells of the epidermis. The number of melanocytes is relatively constant, so the degree of pigmentation and darkness of skin in different persons is determined by the number of melanosomes and the amount of melanin pigment produced. Melanocytes interdigitate their cytoplasm with adjacent epidermal cells and transfer melanin granules to them. Ultraviolet light exposure is the signal for melanosomes to use their tyrosinase enzyme to manufacture melanin.
- #17 This is the microscopic appearance of a malignant melanoma. Large polygonal cells (or spindle cells in some cases) have very pleomorphic nuclei which contain prominent nucleoli. The neoplasm is making brown melanin pigment. A Fontana-Masson stain for melanin may help to detect small amounts of cytoplasmic melanin.
- #18 Addison’s disease.
- #19 Vitiligo-associated with other autoimmune diseases (Ex: Pernicious anemia, DM, Thyroiditis et.c.)
- #22 Pulmonary congestion with dilated capillaries and leakage of blood into alveolar spaces leads to an increase in hemosiderin-laden macrophages, as seen here. Brown granules of hemosiderin from break down of RBC's appear in the macrophage cytoplasm. These macrophages are sometimes called "heart failure cells" because of their association with pulmonary congestion with congestive heart failure.
- #23 Pulmonary congestion with dilated capillaries and leakage of blood into alveolar spaces leads to an increase in hemosiderin-laden macrophages, as seen here. Brown granules of hemosiderin from break down of RBC's appear in the macrophage cytoplasm. These macrophages are sometimes called "heart failure cells" because of their association with pulmonary congestion with congestive heart failure.
- #25 The chest and abdominal cavities are opened here at autopsy. The lungs in the chest have a normal pink aerated appearance with minimal anthracotic pigmentation, because this 80-year-old man never smoked and never allowed smoking in his workplace. The mediastinum contains mostly fat. The pericardial sac around the heart has not been opened.The diaphragmatic domes extend upward to the level of the 6th ribs.
- #26 Anthracotic pigment ordinarily is not fibrogenic, but in massive amounts (as in "black lung disease" in coal miners) a fibrogenic response can be elicited to produce the "coal worker's pneumoconiosis" seen here.
- #27 This chest radiograph demonstrates so many silicotic nodules that they have become confluent areas of silicotic nodules that have resulted in severe restrictive lung disease. This patient became severely dyspneic.
- #28 This chest radiograph demonstrates so many silicotic nodules that they have become confluent areas of silicotic nodules that have resulted in severe restrictive lung disease. This patient became severely dyspneic.
- #29 Here is a tattoo. Tattooing is a practice that is thousands of years old. In many cultures, tattoos have great significance. The pigment in tattoos is transferred to the dermis with a needle, so there can be a risk for infection. The tattoo itself over time tends to lose sharpness and intensity of color.
- #30 This tattoo on the hand still retains sharp outlines. Such a tattoo could be revised by incorporating it into a new tattoo. Removal of a tattoo can be difficult. A laser can be utilized to vaporize the pigment granules, but this is a laborious process.
- #31 This is the microscopic appearance of tattoo pigment (black) in the dermis. Note that this pigment is well within the dermis and, therefore, difficult to remove. Therefore, removing or changing a tattoo is difficult. Cosmetic surgery is not covered by insurance, either.
- #32 An infant with glycogen storage disease type Ia. Note the typical facial aspect resembling a doll's face.