Pyknosis

Pyknosis, or karyopyknosis, is the irreversible condensation of chromatin in the nucleus of a cell undergoing necrosis[1] or apoptosis.[2] It is followed by karyorrhexis, or fragmentation of the nucleus. Pyknosis (from Ancient Greek πυκνός meaning "thick, closed or condensed") is also observed in the maturation of erythrocytes (a red blood cell) and the neutrophil (a type of white blood cell). The maturing metarubricyte (a stage in RBC maturation) will condense its nucleus before expelling it to become a reticulocyte. The maturing neutrophil will condense its nucleus into several connected lobes that stay in the cell until the end of its cell life.

Apoptosis
Morphological characteristics of pyknosis and other forms of nuclear destruction

Pyknotic nuclei are often found in the zona reticularis of the adrenal gland. They are also found in the keratinocytes of the outermost layer in parakeratinised epithelium.

Another use of the word pyknotic, introduced in mathematics in 2019, is for pyknotic objects, which are hypersheaves on the site of compacta; this use is unrelated to cell biology or nuclei.[3]

See also

References
  1. Kumar V, Abbas A, Nelson F, Mitchell R (2007). Robbins Basic Pathology (8th ed.). pp. 6, 9–10 (table 1-1).
  2. Kroemer G, Galluzzi L, Vandenabeele P, Abrams J, Alnemri ES, Baehrecke EH, et al. (January 2009). "Classification of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2009". Cell Death and Differentiation. 16 (1): 3–11. doi:10.1038/cdd.2008.150. PMC 2744427. PMID 18846107.
  3. Barwick C, Haine P (2019). "Pyknotic objects, .I, basic notions". arXiv:1904.09966 [math.AG].
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