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Best possible resolution for human eye?

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200 µm

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Diameter of RBC?

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7 µm

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Fixation in Light Microscopy

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10% neutral buffered formalin(formaldehyde stabilized with methanol)

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Thickness of cell plasma membrane

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0.007 µm thick

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Most common stain in light microscopy

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Hematoxylin(blue/purple, basophilic) and Eosin(red/pink, acidophilic)

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Biopsies

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Tissue frozen and frozen sections cut and stained (often with fluorescent tagged antibody)

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Transmission Electron Microscopy

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An electron beam is transmitted through a thin specimen in a manner similar to the way in which visible light is transmitted through a tissue section for LM

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Major difference between TEM and LM

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Electron microscopy uses magnetic lenses to focus electrons and LM uses glass lenses to focus photons

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Most common fixative in electron microscopy

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Glutaraldehyde

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How does glutaraldehyde work as a fixative?

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forms methylene bridges between polypeptides at reactive side groups

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Following glutaraldehyde fixation, tissue must be post-fixed in…

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osmium tetroxide to preserve the membrane and lipid components

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Dehydration in specimen preparation in TEM

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alcohol and acetone and infiltration with epoxy resin

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To provide contrast in the microscope of TEM

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stained with uranium and lead salts

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Scanning Electron Microscope uses

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a beam of electron (1° beam) to scan the specimen surface

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Main byproducts in SEM as probe scans surface of specimen

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secondary electrons, backscatter electrons, x-rays, and photons

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Secondary electrons are

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low energy electrons emitted from the surface of the specimen and contain surface detail information

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SEM and TEM have the same fixation?

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True

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In SEM, after fixation the specimen is

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dehydrated in ETOH and critical point dried

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CPD

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critical point dried

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After drying in SEM, the specimen is

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glued onto specimen stub and given a conductive coating (gold,gold-palladium)

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Goal of immunocytochemistry

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visualize some component(antigen) in a tissue section by means of an antibody usually linked to a fluorescent or colored molecule

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Procedure for immunocytochemistry

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1)Section tissue 2)Block non-specific binging w/ a protein solution 3)Incubate w/primary antibody and rinse 4)Incubate w/ secondary antibody which contains visualization label

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Acid dyes have a __ charge

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-

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Basic dye has a __ charge

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+

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Hematoxylin
Blue stain-chromatin (DNA), rough ER, basophilic
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Eosin
Pink stain- cytoplasm, collagen/elastin fibers, acidophilic
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Standard stain used for tissues in anatomy and physiology
H and E
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Periodic acid Shiff stain
Stains glycogen and various carbohydrate containing molecules (magenta)
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Basement membrane of Bowman's capsule in the kidneys stains with
PAS (stains Basement membrane magenta)
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Basic structural and functional unit
Cell
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Cells are organized into tissue and tissues are organized into
organs
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4 primary tissues
Epithelium, Connective Tissue, Muscle, and Nervous tissue
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Cytoplasm
Organelles and inclusions suspended in cytoplasmic matrix(cytosol)
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Organelles
Cell systems responsible for synthetic, metabolic, energy requiring and energy generating functions of the cell
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Thickness of cell plasma membrane
7-10 nm
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Plasma membrane functions as a
semipermeable membrane between the cytoplasm and outside of the cell
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Membrane is composed of
phospholipids, glycolipids, and cholesterol
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Phospholipids possess a polar(hydrophilic) head and two non polar(hydrophobic) fatty acyl tails-so they are called...
amphipathic
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Glycolipids are
lipids with attached carbohydrates
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Function of Glycolipids
function in cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions
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How are glycolipids distributed
Glycolipids are distributed asymmetrically in outer membrane leaflet
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Gangliosides
complex glycolipids with sialic acid(9 C monosaccharide) containing oligosaccharides
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GM1 ganglioside
cell surface receptor for cholera toxin
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Glycolipids are present only in
outer leaflet and have polar carbohydrate residues that form part of glycocalyx
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Glycocalyx
"sugar coat" commonly associated with the extracytoplasmic aspect of the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane
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Glycocalyx composition
Polar oligosaccharides side chains covalently linked to protein and some lipid constituents of the plasma membrane
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Glycocalyx contain
Proteoglycans, which consist of membrane integral proteins which are bound glycosaminoglycans
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Functions of glycocalyx
1)cellular attachment to extracellular matrix components 2)binding of antigens and enzymes to cell surface 3)facilitating cell-cell recognition + interaction
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Cholesterol
assists in maintaining membrane structural integrity by decreasing the mobility of the first few CH2 groups on phospholipids.
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Cholesterol constitutes
2% of the plasma membrane lipids
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Two types of membrane proteins
Integral proteins and Peripheral proteins
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Important membrane property
Fluidity
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Membrane fluidity increases with
a rise in temperature and by greater unsaturation of the fatty acids in the membrane
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Membrane fluidity is decreased by an
increase in cholesterol content
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Glucose will move across a RBC membrane down a conc. gradient via
a glucose transporter protein (GLUT1)
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GLUT1 is a
multipass transmembrane protein
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Mechanism for maintaining ion balance in the cell against an electrochemical gradient
NA+ -K+ PUMP
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Sodium and chloride are
10-20x higher outside than inside the cell
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Potassium is
20-40x higher inside the cell than outside the cell
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NA+-K+ pump mechanism
3NA+ OUT.... 2K+ IN (a single ATP is hydrolyzed to complete two steps)
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What inhibits ion transport in the NA+-K+ pump
Oubain- has the same binding site of K+
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Sodium-potassium pump acts to
maintain constant cell volume by reducing the ion conc. intracellularly and by increasing it extracellularly- decreasing flow of water into cell
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Sodium potassium pump plays a minor role in
the maintenance of a potential difference across the plasma membrane
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Movement of sodium down the e-chem gradient can be
coupled to the movement of other molecules against its concentration gradient
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Glucose movement across intestinal epithelium works as
cotransported molecule in the same direction as Na+
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One reason why tumors are often resistant to a broad range of anticancer drugs
tumor cell over expression of ATPase
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Cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) has a structure closely related to
MDR-ATPase
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Cystic fibrosis is due to
defective CFTR in epithelial cell of lung and other tissue
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What type of chloride ion channel is CFTR
ATP and cAMP sensitive chloride ion channel
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In CF patients, the CFTR
becomes insensitive to cAMP and Cl- flux across the cell membrane
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Ion channel proteins
Highly folded transmembrane proteins that form small aqueous pores across membranes - allows specific small, water soluble molecules and ions to pass down gradient
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Ion channels influence the rate of flow but not
the direction
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Membrane receptors are primarily
glycoproteins located on cell surface that bind specific signaling molecules
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Membrane receptors act as
transducers
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Membrane receptors control membrane permeability by
regulating the conformation of ion channel proteins
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Ion channel linked receptors
binds a signaling molecule that temporarily opens or closes the gate, permitting or inhibiting the movement of ions across the membrane
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Catalytic receptors are
single-pass transmembrane proteins. (extracytoplasmic part functions as a receptor and the cytoplasmic part functions as protein kinase)
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Catalytic receptors may lack
extracytoplasmic part and therefore be continuously activated (oncogenes)
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Transmembrane trimeric G proteins are composed of what 3 polypeptide subunits
alpha, beta ,gamma

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