chp 1 Flashcards
extracellular matrix
Def:
Allows cells to form tissues and organs
Extracellular Matrix
- Macromolecules: (5)
- Collagen
- Elastin
- Fibronectin
- Proteoglycans
- Hyaluronic acid
Extracellular Matrix - Function:(4)
- Mechanical support
- Control of cell proliferation
- Scaffold for tissue regeneration
- Provides a microenvironment for tissues
Basement membrane (basal lamina) Def:
specialized ECM
Basement membrane (basal lamina)/
- describe structure
- location? (2)
- surrounds?(3)
thin, tough, flexible
location: under the epithelial and above the connective tissues, so its between cell sheets.
Surrounds: individual cells
fat, muscle, schwann cells
Cell adhesion Molecules(CAMs)
def:
surface proteins that bind to adjacent cells&ECM.
Cell adhesion Molecules(CAMS) protein families? (4)
integrins
cadherins
selectins
immunoglobulin super fam
CAMs involved in? (4)
- tumorigenesis
- blood-brain barrier establishment
- help lymphocyte find their target.
- inflammation
Cell Adhesion Molecules:
- Inflammation plays a critical role in and how?
3. steps
- early development of atherosclerosis.
- Arteries have endothelial cells that get damaged by High BP.
- Glycosylated CAMs (glucose group) attaches to them.
- Recruit/ bind (wbc) AKA
(inflammation stage of atherosclerosis)
Specialized Cell Junctions:
- Def: holds…. providing….
- (____ proof)
- BIG on_______
- maintain polarity where?
- _________ complex
- holds cells together
- providing strong mechanical attachment
- leak proof
- big on communication
- apico-basal
- junctional complex
Specialized Cell Junctions:
- 3 types? where are they close to/located
- Adherens - close to apex
- Desmos: close to apex
- Hemidesmo: base of cell
Apicobasal polarity
- sections broken in? what is it?
- connections of cell?
- having this allows
- sections broken into 2: apex-top, base-bottom.
- connections of cell coming all together.
- certain functions occur on top and bottom
Specialized cell junctions; allow for special cell communication
ex: how
electrical waves going from cell to cell.
apex:
- where?
- Function
- goes to?
- have what features?(2)
- upper, free surface
- secretion
- goes to lumen
- have microvilla/cillia
basal:
- where?, attached to
- function
- coming from?
- lower, attached to surface
- absorption
- from lumen ( cuz above it is the apex and that TO lumen so basal is FROM lumen)
What helps maintain apico-basal polarity?
specialized Cell junction
Junctional Complex:
- (4) types
- gating:
- chem that helps gating, where is gating located.
desmos,tight,gap,connexons
gating: control permeability(its a gate allows things in/out)
- Ca++ in cytoplasm
Cell communication maintains:
regulates?
coordinates?
homeostasis, regulates growth, division, coordinates functions
Cell communiction:
2 types
control dependent signals
remote signals
Contact dependent signals?
3
paracrine
autocrine
neurotransmitter
Remote signals (2)
Hormonal
Neurohormonal
Contact dependent signals means?
cells close in contact NOT in bloodstream
Remote signals means?
chem signals in bloodstream
Paracrine Signals?
chem messengers target nearby target cells
Autocrine signals
secreting cells targets ITSELF
neurotransmitter signals
- neuron secretes a neurotransmitter
- across synaptic cleft
- to receptor on postsynaptic target cell
hormonal signals
a hormone secrets into bloodstream delivered to target cell
Neurohormonal signals
neuron secrets chem messenger into bloodstream delivered to target cell.
Differentiate between transduction(signals) by channel regulation VS. second messenger cascades
(these are 2 types of signals)
- normal signal:_/received by ?
- cascades:4 steps?
signals create/release a molecule- received by target cells thru receptor proteins.
signal cascades: relay-> amplify->distribute->modulate signal.
if chem messenger is___ its cant cross?
Therefore, it binds to ____
when it responds we 2 thing?
polar
non-polar lipid bilayer
1. channel reg
2. 2nd messenger
Channel regulation:
def?
ex: motor nerve is? releasing?
open/close of ion channel
- motor nerve is DEPOLARIZED, releases acetylcholine.