Cell organelles & inclus. at light Flashcards

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What is histology?

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-is essentially Microanotomy study of the structure (Anatomy) of small (micro) things
->HISTO + LOGOS=
the study of tissues

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What are those small (micro) things?

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-small things are the cells and their arrangements to constitute tissues and, finally, the association among these to form organ

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When was the “cell” discovered? What is the word origin?

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  • 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)
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Who was the first to observe the true units that form the tissues of animals?

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-Malpighi

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Who carried out the first description of the nucleus and when?

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  • Leeuwenhoek, in 1700, when examining the red blood cells of the salmon
  • > from the Latin, nucleus = almond (Mandel)
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Who accomplished the first description of the nuclear envelope (Atomhülle) ?

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-Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869), a Czech biologist, in 1839

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Who introduced the term nucleus in microscopy?

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-Robert Brown (1773-1858), a Scottish botanist, has introduced the term nucleus in microscopy

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Which term did Purkinje also introduced in Science?

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-protoplasma (1840)

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Who is considered (by some authors) to be the founder of Animal Histology?

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-Marie François Bichat, a French pathologist (1771-1802)

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Who is the father of microscopy? (Holland)

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  • 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
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Who is the English father of microscopy?

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  • 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
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What did Charles A. Spencer do?

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-By middle of the 19th Century-manufacture fine optical equipment and the industry he founded

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What is a light microscope?

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-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

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How can scientists see tiny particles under a microscope?

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-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.

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What is a simple microscope?

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-A simple microscope is a microscope that uses a lens or set of lenses to enlarge an object through angular magnification

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What is fixation? And which reactions are important?

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  • 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
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Why is it embedded in paraffin?

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  • for tissue sectioning (Gewebeschneiden)
  • sectioning by microtome
  • > 5 to 10 um of thickness
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With what are sections strained?

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-Staining of tissue sections with histological dyes
-Haematoxylin and eosin
Nucleus: blue
Cytoplasm :pink

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What are HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CYTOCHEMISTRY

based on?

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  • based on specific binding of a dye to a particular cell component
    or:
  • on the inherent enzymatic activity
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What happens to cell after fixation?

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-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

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What is the mostly used staining method?

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-Heamatoxylin and Eosin

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What kind of dye reacts with which kind of groups?

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  • acid dye with negative charge reacts with cationic groups in cell
  • basic dye carries positive charge and reacts with anionic groups in cell
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What is the major factor for tissue-strain binding ?

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-electrostatic linkage

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What is basophilia?

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-the ability of anionic groups to react (within a cell) with a basic dye

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What does hematoxylin cause? (+What is it?)

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-is a basic dye and causes basophilia of some cell components

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What is acidophilia?

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-the ability of cationic groups to react (within a cell) with acidic dyes

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What does the prokaryotic cell have? (example bacteria)

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  • 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
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What do eukaryotic cells have?

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  • are larger
  • have a membrane-surrounded nucleus
  • and numerous types of cellular organelles
  • also have histones associated with DNA in the nucleus
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Name all the organelles which appear in cytoplasm (eukaryotic)

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  • Mitochondrion
  • Endoplasmic reticulum
  • Ribosome
  • Golgi complex
  • Lysosomes
  • Peroxisomes
  • Inclusions
  • Microtubules
  • Microfilaments
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List the different cell shapes

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  1. -Cylindrical/columnar (säulenartig), cuboidal (quaderformig), polyhedral, flattened epithelial cell shapes to fit into multicellular patterns
  2. -Spheroid & Ovoid - defensive blood cells
  3. -Elongated - muscle cells & fibroblasts
  4. -Multiple branching processes - neurons, glial cells, pigment cells
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How thick is the cell membrane? What does it house? With what is it visible?

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  • 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
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What is a unit membrane?

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-a trilaminar structure of two thin dense lines with a medium light area

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What is the major component in the cell membrane?

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  • 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
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What acts as a selective barrier?

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  • the plasma membrane

- >maintains the internal environment of the cell, as different from the extracellular region

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Which three possibilities exist in the movement of molecules through the plasma membranes?

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  • simple diffusion
  • carrier protein (opens, closes)
  • channel protein (ein Kanal)
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What is the basic structure of the membrane?

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  • lipid bilayer
  • double layer of lipid molecules (about 5nm of thickness)
  • > relatively impermeable (undurchlässig) barrier to the passage of most water-soluble (wasserlöslich) substances
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How are the phospholipid molecule in the lipid bilayer composed?

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  • 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
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What is the hydrophilic region in the lipid bilayer?

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-the polar head

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What is the hydrophobic region in the lipid bilayer?

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-nonpolar fatty acid tails

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As which kinds are proteins embedded in the lipid bilayer?

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-as “integral” or peripheral proteins or transmembrane proteins

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Which proteins usually form ionic channels?

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-transmembrane proteins

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What does the model Fluid Mosaic Model describe?

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-integral proteins have the ability to float (schweben) in the sea of phospholipids

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What is glycocalyx? How thick?

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  • carbohydrate chains covalently bound to transmembrane proteins and phospholpid molecules of the outer leaflet + extracellular matrix molecules
  • 50 nm of thickness
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What are the functions of glycocalyx?

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  • protects cell from interaction with inappropriate proteins, cell injury
  • provides cell to cell recognition
  • adhesion (Haftung) function
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Why does glycocalyx stain intensely?

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-stains intensely due to negatively charged sulfate and carboxyl groups

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What are the functions of membrane?

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  • 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
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What allows the cell to maintain its shape?

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-membrane provides anchoring (Verankerung) sites for cytoskeletal filaments or components of the extracellular matrix

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Membrane transduces extracellular physical and chemical signs into?

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-intracellular events

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What does the membrane also provide and what does it also regulate?

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  • 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)
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In which two components is ER (endoplasmic reticulum) devided ?

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-smooth and rough ER

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Cells involved in what are rich in RER?

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  • cells involved in protein synthesis

- >their membranes possess integral proteins that recognize and bind to ribosomes

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As what does RER function?

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  • RER functions in the synthesis of all proteins

- sulfation,folding and glycolisation

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For what are SER (smooth endoplasmic reticulum) important?

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-important in detoxification (Entgiftung) of toxic substances

54
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SER is very abundant in?

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-Very abundant in steroid, cholesterol, and triglycerides synthezising cells

55
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The lumen of SER is continuous with?

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-with that of RER

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What can cause the SER to double its surface area?

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  • SER doubles in surface area within a few days because of:
  • > When large quantities of drugs enter the circulation, detoxification enzymes are synthesized in the liver in unusually large amounts
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Which binding proteins reside on SER?

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-Ca2+binding proteins

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What is ribosome composed of? What happens there?

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  • Small particles of 12 nm to 25 nm
  • composed of proteins and ribosomal RNA
  • site for protein synthesis
  • large and small subunits
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Which role does each subunits of ribosome have? When do they unite?

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  • small subunit has a site for binding of mRNA; P site for peptidyl tRNA and A site for aminoacyl T RNA
  • large subunit that helps form the peptide bond and holds the peptide chain
  • > small and large subunits unite during protein synthesis
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How are unattached ribosomes called? Where is the use?

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  • free ribosomes

- >are involved in the synthesis of protein for use within cytoplasm

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In what are ribosomes involved which are attached to the ER?

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  • in the synthesis of proteins for secretion (absondern), lysosomal enzymes and for new membranes
62
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Define polyribosome (polysome)

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-numerous ribosomes, each creating a separate peptide chain, are called polyribosome or polysome

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How can we see the ribosomes at Light microscope ?

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-individual ribosomes and polysomes could not be observed by light microscope

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What does their localization in cytoplasm cause?

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-their localization in cytoplasm cause BASOPHILIA-Deep staining ability by basic dyes

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Why are the cells containing large numbers of free ribosomes (neurons, malignant neoplasms) basophilic?

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-due to the presence nucleic acid in the ribosomes

66
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The functions of Golgi complex

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-Functions in the synthesis of carbohydrates and modifications and sorting of proteins newly done in RER

67
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Where are vesicles located? (Golgi complex)

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-at their periphery (Rand)

68
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What is the Golgi-stacks composed of?

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  • 3-12 parallel flattened membrane-bound cisterns (membranumschlossenen, meist flachen Hohlräumen)
69
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What is called cis face (entry face) ?

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-Convex surface of the stack , near the nucleus

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What is called TRANS face (mature face)?

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-Concave surface facing the plasma membrane

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Where do numerous transfer vesicles appear? (Golgi stack)

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-near the entry face (cis) and edges of Golgi stack

72
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What forms at the mature face?

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-secretory vesicles and condensing vacuoles

73
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Which kind of shape do mitochondria have?

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-rod (Stab)-shaped organelles

74
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Where are mitochondria not present?

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-present in all cells except red blood cells and keratinocytes

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Can mitochondria self-replicate?

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-yes

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What is the size of mitochondria?

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-05 to 7 um (nano) in size

77
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What are cristae?

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-folds (Falten) of inner membrane

smooth outer membrane

78
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What is ATP?

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  • the primary energy carrier in all living organisms on earth
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What are the four methods of creating ATP?

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  • glycolysis
  • oxidative phosphorylation
  • beta oxidation
  • aerobic respiration
80
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How is ATP produced in oxidative phosphorylation ?

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-ATP is produced when electrons flow from chemicals known as NADH or FADH (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and flavin adenine dinucleotide respectively) to oxygen

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Which kind of protein does the other membrane (mitochondria) contain? What does it (Protein) form ?

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  • The outer membrane contains numerous number of transmembrane protein porin, as transport proteins
  • Porin forms large aqueous channels through the lipid bilayer
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For what is the outer membrane (mitochondria) permeable?

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-to all molecules of 5000 daltons or less, including small proteins

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Intermembrane space (mitochondria) is chemically equivalent to? Why is it equivalent?

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  • to the cytosol with respect to the small molecules it contains
  • most of the molecules could not pass the inner membrane (can enter the intermembrane space though)
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Why and where are cristae?

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-inner mitochondria are folded to form cristae to increase surface area

85
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What is caridolipin?

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-a phospholipid possessing 4 fatty acyl chains

86
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The inner membrane is impermeable to?

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-to ions and electrons

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What is known as the numerous subunits displayed by the inner membrane?

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-protein complexes known as ATP synthetase or ELEMENTARY PARTICLES

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Where is respiratory chain enzymes located?

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-additional protein complex (as respiratory chain enzymes) are located on the inner membrane

89
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How can ATP generated from ADP?

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-by adding inorganic phosphate

90
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How big is the matrix granules?

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-30 to 50 nm

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What does the mitochondrial matrix contain?

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  • high content of protein (more than 50 %)
  • ribosomes
  • tRNA
  • mRNA
  • matrix granules
  • circular DNA
  • enzymes necessary to express mitochondrial genome
  • > viscous (zähflüssig)
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Which enzymatic breakdown happens in the mitochondrial matrix?

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  • enzymatic breakdown of fatty acids and pyruvate to Acetyl CoA
  • > acetly Coa then is oxidated in Krebs cycle
93
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The binging of calcium protects?

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  • Magnesium and calcium binding

- >Binding of calcium to protect cell from calcium toxicity

94
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What is lysosomes?

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  • membrane-bounded organelles containing 40 different types of acid hydrolases
  • > sulfatases, proteases, nuclease, lipases, glycosidases
  • digestive organelles of the cell
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What is the function of the lysosomal membranes proton pump?

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-to transport H+ ions into lysosome

96
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Which ph is required for an acid medium? (lysosomes)

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-5.0

97
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From where is the lysosomes pinched off?

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  • from trans Golgi cisterns

- >kept inside the cell

98
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What does the primary lysosomes digest?

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  • extracellular substances (crinophagy)
  • cellullar debris (Trümmer)
  • damaged, old organelles (autophagy)
99
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How are secondary lysosomes created?

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  • when primary lysosomes fuse with phagosomes/pinosome (engulfed (verschlungenes) Material)
  • > autophagosomes, autophagic vacuoles, digestive vacuole
100
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Hydrolytic breakdown of the contents of secondary lysosomes cause?

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-residual (Rest) body formation

101
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As what does Lipofuscin granules?

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  • age pigment

- Lipofuscin as the residual body

102
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Describe the three steps of lysosomal storage disease

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  • absence of certain lysosomal enzymes
  • > Accumulation of undigested material
  • ->Lysososomal storage diseases (Tay-Sach”s disease)
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What is exocytosis describing?

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-exocytosis expels material from the cell into the extracellular space or into a lumen

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What are the steps in exocytosis?

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  • 1.Actin filaments bring vesicle to cell membrane
  • 2.Vesicle & cell membranes fuse
  • 3.Fused membranes rupture
  • 4.Vesicle content discharged Vesicle membrane incorporated in plasmalemma
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What is endocytosis?

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-ENDOCYTOSIS brings in material from outside to the interior, but still confined within a membrane-enclosed body an endosome, or, if large (e.g., a bacterium), a phagosome

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Describe the steps of Endocytosis

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  • 1.Plasmalemma
  • 2.Binding & Invagination
  • 3.Membrane separation Fusion to make vesicle
  • 4.Coated (beschichtetes) vesicle
  • > Actin filaments move vesicle in endocytic pathway
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What are peroxisomes (microbodies)?

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-membrane-bounded organelles (0.5 um)
-containing oxidative enzymes to breakdown hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) such as :
-D-amino acid oxidase,
ureate oxidase, and
catalase
(->Peroxidasen reduzieren giftige Wasserstoffperoxide zu Sauerstoff und Wasser)

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What is characteristic feature for peroxisome?

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-a crystalline structure inside a sac which also contains amorphous gray material is a characteristic feature for peroxisome

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How are new peroxisomes formed?

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-through fission

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Where are peroxisomes in a numerous form?

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-are numerous in the liver where toxic by-products are going to accumulate

111
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What is the cytoskeleton?

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  • a tridimensional meshwork of protein filaments
  • specialized cytoplasmic proteins supporting the cell
  • a contractile system
  • > properties serve for maintaining, changing the cell shape an its motility
112
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What does the cytoskeleton include?

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  • the microtubules
  • microfilaments
  • intermediate filaments
113
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What is Microtubules? With what is it assembled (zusammengebaut)?

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  • 25 nm of diameter
  • Cylindrical structures
  • readily assembled and disassembled from cytoplasmic pools of the protein tubulin
  • > rigid structure for maintenance of cell shape
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Microtubules is involved in?

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  • cilia formation (basal body formation)
  • mitotoic spindle formation (the centriole) for cell division
  • cilia and flaggella formation
  • centriole formation
  • axon structure
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What are filaments?

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  • fadenförmigen Zellstrukturen
116
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What does the microtubules consist of?

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  • 13 parallel protofilaments with alpha and beta tubulin subunits
  • During mitotic division, rapid polimerization of subunits provide formation mitotic spindle
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What are microfilaments? What does it provide?

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  • fine, thread like (fine fadenförmige) structures about 6 to 7 nanometers in diameter
  • provide for movement and shape change
  • > acts as the muscles
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What are the microfilaments composed of?

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  • composed of the contractile protein actin
  • > represent a primitive contractile system, forming large bundles called stress fibers
  • usually found as a band just under the plasma membrane
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What are the functions of microfilaments?

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  • anchorage (verankerung) and movement of membrane proteins
  • movement of plasma membrane (as endocytosis-exocytosis and cytokinesis)
  • structural core of microvilli
  • cell process elongation
  • cellular locomotion
  • contract to result in “cytoplasmic streaming”
  • -wound healing (stress fibers)
  • stress fibers may extend between two focal points to assist the cell in exerting a tensile force on extracellular matrix
  • -connect internal structures or organelles to transmembrane proteins of neighboring cells or to extracellular matrix filaments(esp. in muscle and epidermis of skin)
  • a close link between tumor diagnosis and intermediate filaments
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What are intermediate filaments?

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  • Supporting role
  • non-contractile
  • frequently grouped into delicate bundles (fibrils) in the cytoplasm
121
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What are the 5 major classes of intermediate filaments?

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  • Cytokeratin
  • Vimentin
  • Desmin
  • Neurofilaments
  • Glial fibrillary acidic protein

-spectrin and laminin

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What is centrioles?

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-cylindrical paired cell structure composed mainly of a protein called tubulin

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Where is centrioles located? How long? Which microtubules are fused? How many protofilaments?

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  • -centrosome
  • 0.2 nm long
  • A, b and c microtubules are fused to one another
  • 13 protofilaments
124
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When do centrioles replicate? What do they do after duplication? For which kind of formation are centrioles important?

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  • Centrioles replicate prior to cell division in S phase
  • After duplication, they separate from each other
  • Centrioles are important in the formation of new microtubule system in new cells
125
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For what are basal bodies important? How are they formed? Where does it migrate?

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  • Important for cilium formation
  • basal bodies are formed by repeated replication of centrioles
  • migrate to apical cell surface
126
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What is the function of basal bodies?

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-serves as organizer of microtubules for cilium formation

127
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What are inclusions?

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  • Transient (vorrübergehende) elements of cell:
  • Secretory granules
  • Pigment granules
  • Lipofuchsin granules
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Q

Name some examples of inclusions?

A
  • Lipid droplets
  • Glycogen
  • Crystals
  • Virus
  • > Non-membrane bounded