Cell organelles & inclus. at light Flashcards
What is histology?
-is essentially Microanotomy study of the structure (Anatomy) of small (micro) things
->HISTO + LOGOS=
the study of tissues
What are those small (micro) things?
-small things are the cells and their arrangements to constitute tissues and, finally, the association among these to form organ
When was the “cell” discovered? What is the word origin?
- In 1665, Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
- Hooke derived the designation from the Latin, cellula ; i.e., small compartment, having in mind a comparison with a honeycomb (Wabe)
Who was the first to observe the true units that form the tissues of animals?
-Malpighi
Who carried out the first description of the nucleus and when?
- Leeuwenhoek, in 1700, when examining the red blood cells of the salmon
- > from the Latin, nucleus = almond (Mandel)
Who accomplished the first description of the nuclear envelope (Atomhülle) ?
-Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869), a Czech biologist, in 1839
Who introduced the term nucleus in microscopy?
-Robert Brown (1773-1858), a Scottish botanist, has introduced the term nucleus in microscopy
Which term did Purkinje also introduced in Science?
-protoplasma (1840)
Who is considered (by some authors) to be the founder of Animal Histology?
-Marie François Bichat, a French pathologist (1771-1802)
Who is the father of microscopy? (Holland)
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek of Holland
- the first to see and describe bacteria, yeast (Hefe) plants, life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries
Who is the English father of microscopy?
- Robert Hooke
- re-confirmed Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s discoveries of the existence of tiny living organisms in a drop of water
- > made a copy of Leeuwenhoek’s light microscope and then improved upon his design
What did Charles A. Spencer do?
-By middle of the 19th Century-manufacture fine optical equipment and the industry he founded
What is a light microscope?
-Optical microscope, often referred to as light microscope, is a type of microscope which uses visible light and a system of lenses to magnify images of small samples
How can scientists see tiny particles under a microscope?
-To see tiny particles under a microscope, scientists must bypass (umgehen) light all together and use a different sort of “illumination,” (Beleuchung) one with a shorter wavelength.
What is a simple microscope?
-A simple microscope is a microscope that uses a lens or set of lenses to enlarge an object through angular magnification
What is fixation? And which reactions are important?
- Fixation: stop cell metabolism and preservation of tissue structure
- Formaldehyde preserves general structure of the cell and extracellullar components by reacting with amino groups of proteins
Why is it embedded in paraffin?
- for tissue sectioning (Gewebeschneiden)
- sectioning by microtome
- > 5 to 10 um of thickness
With what are sections strained?
-Staining of tissue sections with histological dyes
-Haematoxylin and eosin
Nucleus: blue
Cytoplasm :pink
What are HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CYTOCHEMISTRY
based on?
- based on specific binding of a dye to a particular cell component
or: - on the inherent enzymatic activity
What happens to cell after fixation?
-Some of the components are dissolved such as:
->glycogen and proteoglycans, ions,
small molecules
-Some are reacted with other molecules to form large macromolecules such as:
->Nucleoproteins,
Cytoskeletal proteins,
Membrane phospholipid proteins
What is the mostly used staining method?
-Heamatoxylin and Eosin
What kind of dye reacts with which kind of groups?
- acid dye with negative charge reacts with cationic groups in cell
- basic dye carries positive charge and reacts with anionic groups in cell
What is the major factor for tissue-strain binding ?
-electrostatic linkage
What is basophilia?
-the ability of anionic groups to react (within a cell) with a basic dye
What does hematoxylin cause? (+What is it?)
-is a basic dye and causes basophilia of some cell components
What is acidophilia?
-the ability of cationic groups to react (within a cell) with acidic dyes
What does the prokaryotic cell have? (example bacteria)
- devoid of a membrane-bounded nucleus
- 1 to 5 microns
- have a cell wall outside the cell membrane
- no membrane- surrounded organelles
- ribosomes
- flagella and pili
What do eukaryotic cells have?
- are larger
- have a membrane-surrounded nucleus
- and numerous types of cellular organelles
- also have histones associated with DNA in the nucleus
Name all the organelles which appear in cytoplasm (eukaryotic)
- Mitochondrion
- Endoplasmic reticulum
- Ribosome
- Golgi complex
- Lysosomes
- Peroxisomes
- Inclusions
- Microtubules
- Microfilaments
List the different cell shapes
- -Cylindrical/columnar (säulenartig), cuboidal (quaderformig), polyhedral, flattened epithelial cell shapes to fit into multicellular patterns
- -Spheroid & Ovoid - defensive blood cells
- -Elongated - muscle cells & fibroblasts
- -Multiple branching processes - neurons, glial cells, pigment cells
How thick is the cell membrane? What does it house? With what is it visible?
- It is of 7.5 nm of thickness
- It houses cytoplasmic matrix containing specialized membrane-surrounded components called organelles
- Not visible at light microscope; visible by transmission electron microscope
What is a unit membrane?
-a trilaminar structure of two thin dense lines with a medium light area
What is the major component in the cell membrane?
- the lipid bilayer with:
- proteins
- cholesterol (between hydrophobic fatty acid chain)
- oligosaccharides
- > molecules are held together by non covalent bonds
- > this structure results in dynamic and fluid feature of cell membrane
What acts as a selective barrier?
- the plasma membrane
- >maintains the internal environment of the cell, as different from the extracellular region
Which three possibilities exist in the movement of molecules through the plasma membranes?
- simple diffusion
- carrier protein (opens, closes)
- channel protein (ein Kanal)
What is the basic structure of the membrane?
- lipid bilayer
- double layer of lipid molecules (about 5nm of thickness)
- > relatively impermeable (undurchlässig) barrier to the passage of most water-soluble (wasserlöslich) substances
How are the phospholipid molecule in the lipid bilayer composed?
- composed of a polar head (at the surface) and two nonpolar fatty acid tails (toward enter of plasmalemma)
- Nonpolar components of two layers face each other
- > By noncovalent bonds, hold the bilayer together
What is the hydrophilic region in the lipid bilayer?
-the polar head
What is the hydrophobic region in the lipid bilayer?
-nonpolar fatty acid tails
As which kinds are proteins embedded in the lipid bilayer?
-as “integral” or peripheral proteins or transmembrane proteins
Which proteins usually form ionic channels?
-transmembrane proteins
What does the model Fluid Mosaic Model describe?
-integral proteins have the ability to float (schweben) in the sea of phospholipids
What is glycocalyx? How thick?
- carbohydrate chains covalently bound to transmembrane proteins and phospholpid molecules of the outer leaflet + extracellular matrix molecules
- 50 nm of thickness
What are the functions of glycocalyx?
- protects cell from interaction with inappropriate proteins, cell injury
- provides cell to cell recognition
- adhesion (Haftung) function
Why does glycocalyx stain intensely?
-stains intensely due to negatively charged sulfate and carboxyl groups
What are the functions of membrane?
- maintains the structural integrity (Einheit) of the cell
- control movements of substances in and out of the cell
- > selective permeability (gezielte Durchlässigkeit)
- regulate cell to cell interactions
- recognize the antigen via receptors
- acts as an interface between cytoplasm and external medium
- establishes transport systems for specific molecules
What allows the cell to maintain its shape?
-membrane provides anchoring (Verankerung) sites for cytoskeletal filaments or components of the extracellular matrix
Membrane transduces extracellular physical and chemical signs into?
-intracellular events
What does the membrane also provide and what does it also regulate?
- regulate the fusion of the membrane with other membranes by way of specialized junctions (Verbindungen)
- provide a passageway across the membrane for ionic exchange ,as in gap junctions
- by apical cell modification, it provides cellular motility (Beweglichkeit) and absorption (cilium and flagellum)
In which two components is ER (endoplasmic reticulum) devided ?
-smooth and rough ER
Cells involved in what are rich in RER?
- cells involved in protein synthesis
- >their membranes possess integral proteins that recognize and bind to ribosomes