What is hyperplasia?
Physiological adaptive responses include: * Hyperophy - increase in cell size * Hyperplasia - increase in number of cells * Atrophy - decrease in cell size and number * Metaplasia - reversible replacement of one cell type by another differentiated cell type Hyperplasia is common in cells capable of replication namely labile cells / stable cells or stem cells Reference robbins page no 2.
General pathology
Decrease in cell size
Increase in cell size
Increase in cell number
Decrease in cell number
Increase in cell number