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Ch3:Tissue Renewal, Regeneration, and Repair Flashcards

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Two parts of tissue renewal?

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  1. Regeneration

2. Repair

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What is regeneration?

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Complete restitution of lost or damage tissue through proliferation of cells and tissues

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What is the requirement for regeneration to occur?

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Stem cells of tissues are not destroyed

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What is repair?

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Restoration of original structures but can be structurally deranged.

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What does repair consist of?

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Combination of regeneration and scar formation by the deposition of collagen

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What is the predominant healing process that occurs when the extracellular matrix framework is damaged?

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Scar formation

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What is fibrosis?

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Extensive deposition of collagen

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Damage to the matrix (parenchymal stem cell matrix) results in what? 2

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  1. Fibrosis

2. Scar formation

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The size of cell population is determined by what? (3)

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Rates of:

  1. Cell proliferation
  2. Cell differentiation
  3. Death by apoptosis
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Cells incapable of replication are known as what?

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Terminally differentiated cells

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Proliferation of cells can be stimulated by what two types of conditions?

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  1. Physiologic

2. Pathogenic

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What is epithelium?

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A covering

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What is mucosa?

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Epithelium that absorbs and is moist

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What are continuously dividing tissues called?

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Labile

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Examples of continuously dividing cells? 3

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  1. Epithelium/Mucosa
  2. Hematopoietic cells
  3. Mature cells derived from adult stem cells
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What are quiescent tissues called?

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Stable tissues

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Level of replication in quiescent?

When can it speed up?

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Low

In response to stimuli

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Examples of quiescent cells? 3

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  1. Parenchymal cells of liver, kidney, pancreas
  2. Mesenchymal cells
  3. Vascular endothelium
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Nondividing tissues are known as what?

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Permanent tissues

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Examples of permanent tissue? (3)

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  1. Neural tissue
  2. Skeletal muscle
  3. cardiac muscle
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What is regenerative medicine?

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Repairing damaged human tissues through stem cells

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What makes stem cells so intriguing for repair? 2

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  1. Self-renewal properties

2. Capacity to generate differentiated cell lineages.

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How is the replication of stem cells described?

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Obligatory asymmetric replication

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What is obligatory asymmetric replication?

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Each stem cell division, one of the daughter cells retains its self-renewing capacity while the other enters differentiation pathway

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How is the ratio of stem cells/differentiated cells described?

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Stochastic differentiation

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What is stochastic differentiation?

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Population if maintained by the balance between stem cells divisions that generate either two self-renewing stem cells or two cell that will differentiate

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Stem cells that can generate all tissues of the body are known as what?

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Pluripotent

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Examples of pluripotent cells? 2

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Embryonic cells

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)

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29
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Where do adult stem cells reside?

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Niches

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30
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What makes up a niche?

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Mesenchymal, endothelial, and other cell types

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Niche cells do what?

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Generate or transmit stimuli that regulate stem cell self-renewal and generationi of progeny cells

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Embryonic stem cells are found where?

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Inner cell mass of blastocysts in early embryonic development

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Research applications of embryonic stem cells? 3

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  1. Study specific signals and differentiation steps required for a tissue
  2. Production of knockout or knockin mice
  3. Repopulate damaged organs
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Result of reprogramming differentiated cells?

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Induced pluripotent stem cells

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35
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What is reproductive cloning?

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Transfer of nuclear material into oocyte

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36
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How effective is therapeutic and reproductive cloning?

Why?

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Inefficient

Deficiency in histone methylation results in improper gene expression

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What does the pluripotency of cells in a clone depend on?

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Expression of four transcription factors known as oncogenes

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What are transit amplifyin cells?

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Rapidly dividing cells generated from somatic stem cells

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What is transdifferentiation?

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Change in the differentiation of a cell from one type to another

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40
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What is special about hemopoietic stem cells?

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Can differentiate into hepatocytes and neurons upon fusion with already differentiated cells of target tissue

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What is developmental plasticity?

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Ability of cell to transdifferentiate into diverse lineages

42
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How might HSC’s be involved in repair/immune?

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Migrate to site of inflammation and generate innate immune cells, release GF’s and cyotkines for promoting repair

43
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Stem cells in bone marrow include? (2)

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  1. HSC’s

2. MSC’s

44
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What do HSC’s generate in bone marrow?

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All blood cell lineages

45
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What do MSC’s generate in bone marrow?

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Chondrocytes, osteoblasts, adipocytes, myoblasts, and endothelial cell precursors

46
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Stem cells in liver are found where?

Differentiate into what

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Canals of Hering (oval cells)

Hepatocytes and biliary cells

47
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Stem cells in the brain are called what?

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Neural stem cells

48
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Where are stem cells in the skin? 3

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Hair follicle bulge, interfollicular layers of epidermis, and sebaceous glands

49
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Replication of cells in cell cycle is stimulated by what? 92)

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  1. Growth factors

2. Signaling from ECM components through integrins

50
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Components of cell cycle? 4

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  1. G1 (presynthetic)
  2. S (DNA synthesis)
  3. G2 (premitotic)
  4. M (mitotic phases)
51
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When do most controls of cell cycle act?

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Between G1 and S phase at restriction point

52
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Progression in cell cycle regulated by what?

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  1. Cyclins

2. Cyclin-dependent kinases

53
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What do CDK’s do?

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Bind and form complexes with cyclins

Phosphorylate cell cycle inhibition proteins such as RB

54
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How does RB inhibit cell cycle?

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Forms tight inactive complex with TF E2F

55
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What will inhibit CDKs? And when?

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CDK inhibitors at checkpoints

56
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What regulates the CDK inhibitors?

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Growth factors

57
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Senescence or apoptosis is triggered via what?

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p53-dependent mechanisms

58
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Proliferation of cells is driven mainly by what?

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Growth factors

59
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What effects can growth factors have? 4

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  1. Promote survival
  2. Affect locomotion, contractility
  3. Affect cellular differentiation
  4. Promote angiogenesis
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How do growth factors act?

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Ligands that stimulate transcription of genes

61
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Epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) share what?

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Common receptor (EGFR) family of four membrane receptors with intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity

62
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EGFR1 mutations/amplification result in what?

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Cancers of lung, head, neck, breast, glioblastomas, and others

63
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ERB B2 receptor is overexpressed in what?

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Breast cancer

64
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Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has what receptor?

65
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c-MET is highly expressed or mutated in what

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Tumors of renal and thyroid papillae

66
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HGF is identical to what?

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Scatter factor for fibroblast

67
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Is HGF important?

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Required for survival during embryonic development

68
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Platelet derived growth factor binds to what?

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PDGFR alpha and Beta

69
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Where is PDGF stored?

When is it released?

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Platelet granules

Upon platelet activation

70
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Effect of PDGF?

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Migration and proliferation of fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, and monocytes to areas of inflammation and healing of skin wounds

71
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How many forms of VEGF are there?

72
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Effect of VEGF? 2

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Vasculogenesis and angiogenesis in chronic inflammation, healing of wounds, and in tumors

73
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Fibroblast growth factor includes how many members?

74
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What is FGF-7 known as?

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Keratinocyte growth factor?

75
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What FGF works in wound repair? (2)

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FGF-2 and KGF re-epithelialize skin wounds

76
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What FGF works in angiogenesis?

77
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What are four main functions of FGF?

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Wound repair
angiogenesis
Hematopoiesis
Development of muscle and lung

78
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What is a growth inhibitor for most epithelial cells?

79
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TGF-Beta is what type of agent?

Pathologically involved in what?

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Potent fibrogenic agent

Fibrosis in chronic inflammatory conditions and hypertrophic scars

80
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Is TGF-beta involved in immune response?

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Strong anti-inflammatory BUT might enhance some immune functions

81
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What is autocrine signaling?

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Cells respond to molecule that they themselves secrete

82
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Examples of autocrine signaling? 2

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Liver generation

Tumors

83
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What is paracrine signaling?

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One cell type produces the ligand which in turn acts on adjacent cells

84
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Example of paracrine signaling?

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CT repair and wound healing

85
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What is endocrine signaling?

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Hormones synthesized by cells of endocrine organs act on target cells distant from site of synthesis

86
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Main receptor types? (4)

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  1. Tyrosine kinase activity receptors
  2. Receptors that recruit kinases
  3. G-protein-coupled receptors
  4. Steroid hormone receptors
87
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Example of receptors with intrinsic tyrosine kinase?

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  1. Growth factors
88
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Ligand binding in tyrosine kinase receptors causes what? (3)

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  1. Dimerization of receptor
  2. Tyrosine phosphorylation
  3. Activation of receptor tyrosine kinase
89
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Example of receptors that recruit kinases?

90
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Cytokine receptors transmit signals to nucleus by what?

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JAK/STAT pathway

91
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G-coupled protein receptors are used by what?

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Endocrine ligands

92
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How do g-coupled protein receptors transmit signals?

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Trimeric GTP-binding proteins

93
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What is the largest family of plasma membrane receptors?

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G-protein coupled receptors

94
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Defects in G-coupled receptors result in what?

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Retinitis pigmentosa, corticotropin deficiencies, and hyperparathyroidism

95
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Steroid hormone receptors are found where?

96
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Ligands that bind to steroid hormone receptors include what? (3)

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  1. Thyroid hormone
  2. Vitamin D
  3. Retinoids
97
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What is one special branch of steroid hormone receptors?

And they are involved in what?

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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors

Adipogenesis, inflammation, and atherosclerosis

98
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Transcription factors do what mainly?

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Modulate gene activity

99
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Growth promoting genes include? (2)

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c-MYC

c-JUN

100
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Cell cycle-inhibiting gene?

101
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Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs or organs?

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Absence of blastema formation

102
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What is similar to regeneration that mammals can do?

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Compensatory hyperplasia

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