coagulative necrosis
Tissue protein denaturing
Coagulative necrosis is a type of tissue death in which cells retain their shape despite losing function, creating a firm, pale mass.
The proteins inside dying cells denature and solidify, preserving the tissue's architecture like a ghost of its former structure.
This pattern typically results from sudden loss of blood supply, as in heart attacks or kidney infarcts: The pathologist identified coagulative necrosis in the affected cardiac tissue.
- infarctDead tissue from blocked artery
- ischemiaInsufficient tissue blood supply
- tissue deathCells ceasing to function
- cell deathCessation of cellular life
- gangreneTissue death from bloodlessness
myocardial · heart muscle · pale · blood clot · wedge-shaped · kidney · spleen · heart attack · cytoplasm · atherosclerosis · thrombus · embolism · hypoxia · stroke · pathology · autopsy · under the microscope · microscope
- cell pathologyapoptosis, cell death, cell lysis, DNA damage, atrophy
- necrosistissue death, cell death, gangrene, gas gangrene, osteonecrosis
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