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1
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What are subcellular reponses to injury?

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Distinctive alterations involving subcellular organelles and cytosolic proteins

2
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What are lysosomes filled with?

A

Hydrolytic enzymes

3
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What are primary lysosomes?

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Small membrane-bound vesicles budding from the Golgi

4
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Primary lysosomes form secondary ones how?

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By fusing with pinocytotic or phagocytic vesicles derived from invaginated plasma membrane (phagolysosomes)

5
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What is heterophagy?

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Materials from extracellular environment taken up through endocytosis

6
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What is autophagy?

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Lysosomal digestion of cells own components

7
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What are residual bodies formed from in cells?

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indigestible material resulting from intracellular free radical lipid peroxidation

8
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Hereditary lysosomal storage diseases result in what?

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Abnormal accumulation of intermediate metabolites

9
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What happens to the sER during increased chemical intake? What is the consequence of this?

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Hypertrophy to increase p450 enzymes

This may lead to the production of more ROS

10
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EtOH abuse leads to what mitochondrial changes in the liver?

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Enlarged and abnormal shapes

11
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What are mitochondrial myopathies?

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Mitochondrial alterations (like MEERF, MELAS, Leber’s Hereditary optic neuropathy)

12
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What comprises the cytoskeleton (3)?

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Thin filaments
Microtubules
Intermediate filaments

13
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Abnormalities in the cytoskeleton reflects what?

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Defects in cell function or intracelluarl accumulation of fibrillar material

14
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What are the thin filaments?

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Actin, myosin, movement, phagocytosis

15
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What are microfilaments used for?

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Motility, phagocytosis mitotic spindles

16
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What are intermediate filaments used for?

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Intracellular scaffold maintain cellular architecture

17
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What are cytoskeletal elements’ role in signal transduction?

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Linked to cellular receptors to transduce signals

18
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Intracellular accumulation are the result of what?

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Metabolic derangements

19
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What are the three categories of intracellular accumulations?

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  1. Normal endogenous substance produced at normal or increased rate, but metabolism cannot remove it
  2. Normal or abnormal endogenous substance accumulates
  3. Abnormal exogenous substances is deposited
20
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What are four mechanisms of intracellular accumulations?

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  1. Abnormal metabolism
  2. Alterations in proteins folding and transport
  3. Deficiency of critical enzymes
  4. Inability to degrade phagocytosed particles
21
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What happens in intracellular accumulations?

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Normal substances are produced at normal or increased rates, but metabolism cannot keep up

22
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What is steatosis? What is this usually caused by?

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Abnormal accumulations of triglycerides within cells

DM or EtOH use

23
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What are the causes of steatosis?

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Toxins
Protein mutations
Malnutrition
EtOH

24
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The significance of steatosis depends on what?

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Cause and severity

25
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FAs accumulate as what?

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Triglycerides

26
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FAs are usually metabolized to what? (3)

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Phospholipids
Cholesterol esters
Ketones

27
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What are xanthomas?

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Macrophages accumulate cholesterol underneath the skin

28
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What is cholesterolosis?

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Gallstones

29
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What is atherosclerosis?

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Abnormal accumulation of cholesterol/esters in the tunica intima of arteries

30
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What are foam cells? What happen if these rupture?

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Macrophages that accumulate lipids.

If rupture = cholesterol clefts form

31
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What are atheroma?

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Aggregates of cholesterol macrophages

32
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What is the MOA of atherosclerosis?

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Accumulation of foam cells on vessel walls

33
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Strawberry gallbladder is d/t what?

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Cholesterolosis of gallbladder

34
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What are the histological features of cholesterolosis?

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Foam cells in gallbladder

35
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What causes proteins to accumulate within a cell?

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Misfolding

36
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What is hyaline?

A

Pink material in the cytoplasm

37
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What are the causes or protein accumulations?

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Reabsorption
Increased synthesis
Defect in folding

38
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What does protein accumulation appear like histologically (e.g. in the renal tubules)?

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Vacuoles accumulation of pink hyaline

39
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What are Russell bodies? Is this pathogenic

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Immunoglobulins packing into b (plasma) cells–abnormal

40
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What are Mallory bodies?

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alcoholic hyalin (structural protein) accumulations in the liver

41
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Hyaline is eosinophilic or basophilic?

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Eosinophilic

42
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How can protein misfolding lead to accumulations?

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Partially folded intermediates vulnerable to aggregate

43
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What are chaperones used for?

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Aid in protein folding and transport repair misfolded proteins

44
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What is ubiquitin?

A

Marker for degradation by a proteosome

45
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What are the four cellular responses to increased misfolded proteins?

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  1. Increase chaperones
  2. Decrease translation
  3. Increase degradation
  4. Apoptosis
46
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What is ER stress? What does this lead to?

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Demand for proteins is greater the capacity to produce

Leads to misfolded response

47
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What is alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency? What does this lead to?

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Build up of proteases d/t misfolded antiprotease (alpha 1 antitrypsin)

Leads to tissues damage (cirrhosis/ COPD etc)

48
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True or false: there is a balance of proteases and antiproteases

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True

49
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What are the histological features of alpha-1-antitrypsin def?

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Red globules with PAS stain in the liver

50
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What are the histological features of amyloidosis?

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Orange-red stain on Congo red stain

51
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What is amyloidosis?

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Build up of amyloid in issue

52
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What is a hyaline change?

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A non-specific morpholiogical change; pink homogenous appearance on H&E staining

53
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Hyaline change can be seen in intracellular or extracellular aggregations?

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Both

54
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Hyaline change in the walls of arterioles occur in what disease?

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DM and HTN

55
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Glycogen appears like what histologically? (with H&E)

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Clear cytoplasmic vaculoes

56
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In DM, glycogen can be seen in what?

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Cytoplasm of renal tubular epithelium via glycosylation of proteins

57
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What are the two types of diseases where glycogen is accumulated?

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DM

GSDs

58
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How do GSDs appear histologically (with H&E)?

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empty vacuoles

59
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Pompe’s disease = ?

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Type II GSD

60
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Pigments are endogenous or exogenous?

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Both

61
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What is the most common exogenous pigment?

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Carbon

62
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What happens to carbon inhaled?

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Picked up by macrophages and transported to lymph nodes

63
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What is anthracosis? What can this lead to in severe conditions?

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Macrophage accumulation of carbon.

May lead to fibrosis if too large and pneumoconiosis

64
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What is the MOA of tattooing?

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Localized exogenous pigmentations of skin d/t dermal macrophages

65
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What is lipofuscin?

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Brown pigment resulting from lipochrome (lipids and phospholipids)

66
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Where does lipofuscin accumulate?

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Heart, liver, brain

67
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Lipofusin is a marker of what?

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Past free radiacal injury

68
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How does lipofusin appear grossly?

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Brown

69
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What is melanin? What cells produce it?

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Normal pigment in basal epithelial cells produced by melanocytes (via oxidation of Y by tyrosinase)

70
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Melanin accumulates where?

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Keratinocytes in skin or dermal macrophages

71
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What is spitz nevus?

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Benign melanin mole found in children

72
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What is hemosiderin?

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Hb derived gold-yellow/brown pigment in which Fe is stored

73
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Excess Ferritin forms what in the body?

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Hemosiderin granules that accumulate into micelles in cells

74
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Hemosiderin pigments represents what?

A

Aggregates of ferritin micelles

75
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Excesses of Fe build up leads to what?

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Hemosiderosis

76
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What are the causes of hemosiderosis? (4)

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Increase Fe intake
Impaired use of iron
Hemolytic disease
Transfusions

77
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Hemochromatosis = ?

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Accumulation of Fe, in the liver d/t protein absorption in the gut that causes it to absorb more

78
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What is the stain for Fe?

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Prussian blue

79
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Hemochromatosis leads to what?

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Liver damage

80
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What is bilirubin?

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Hb, NOT Fe

81
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What is dystrophic calcification?

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Local processes where normal serum Ca leads accumulation organ dysfunction

82
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What is metastatic calcification?

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Increased serum calcium (hypercalcemia) leading to increase deposition in tissues

83
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What are the three major ways that hypercalcemia is brought about?

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  1. CA in bone
  2. High PTH levels
  3. Vit D disorder
84
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What is the ultimate end product of dystrophic calcification? Metastatic?

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Calcium phosphate for dystrophic, leading to tissue destruction

Thin Ca layer without dysfunction of tissue

85
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What do protein inclusions look like histologically?

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Dark, eosinophilic inclusions in cells

86
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Hemosiderin-laden macrophages indicate what disease process?

A

Heart failure

87
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Where is Fe stored in the body?

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Macrophages in the bone marrow

88
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Apoprotein + triglyceride = ?

A

Lipoproteins

89
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What is the main secondary structure associated with Amyloid? What does this stain?

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Beta pleated sheets that stain with congo red, and fluoresces