epithelium Flashcards
A tissue in which cells are bound tightly together structurally and functionally to form a sheetlike or tubular structurewith little extracellular material between the cells.
a. Connective
b. Muscular
c. Epithelium
d. Nervous
Epithelium
The connective tissue that underlies the epithelia lining, the organs of the digestive, respiratory, and
urinary systems is called?
a. Lamina Propria
b. Lamina Lucida
c. Lamina Densa
d. Lamina Fibroreticularis
lamina propria
Epithelial cells generally show _____, with organelles
and membrane proteins distributed unevenly within the cell. The region of the cell contacting the connective tissue is called______ and the opposite end, usually facing a space called ______.
a. Polarity, basal, apical
b. Nonpolar, basal , apical
c. Polarity, apical, basal
d. Nonpolar, basal, apical
Polarity, basal surface, Apical surface
All epithelial cells in contact with subjacent connective tissue have at their basal surfaces a specialized, feltlike sheet of extracellular material referred to as the ______.
basement membrane
The area of contact between the epithelium and connective tissue may be increased by irregularities at the interface in the form of small evaginations called ____.
a. basement membrane
b. papillae
c. lamina
d. none
papillae
These are large glycoproteins that self-assemble
as a lacelike network immediately below the cells’ basal
poles where they are held in place by the transmembrane
integrins.
a. laminin
b. collagen
c. proteogylcan
d. lamina
Laminin
Provide structural support and polarity to epithelial cells and attach epithelia to underlying connective tissue.
a. basement membrane
b. papillae
c. lamina
d. none
basement membrane
Monomers of _____ contain three polypeptide chains and self-assemble further to form a feltlike layer.
a. collagen type 2
b. collagen type 4
c. proteogylcan
d. collagen type 3
Type IV collagen
The laminin and type IV collagen networks are held
together by the adhesive glycoprotein entactin/
nidogen, and by perlecan .
a. collagen type 2
b. collagen type 4
c. proteogylcan
d. collagen type 3
proteoglycan
The _____ is a thin meshwork of type IV collagen and laminin produced by the epithelial cells.
a. basement membrane
b. basal lamina
c. reticular lamina
d. proteoglycan
basal lamina
The contains type III collagen and anchoring fibrils of VII collagen, all secreted by cells of the immediately adjacent connectivetissue.
a. basement membrane
b. basal lamina
c. reticular lamina
d. proteoglycan
reticular lamina
Formed by interacting transmembrane proteins such as claudin and occludin; linear arrangements of these linked proteins surround the apical ends of the cells and prevent paracellular passage of substances (between the cells.)
a. Tight or occluding junctions
b. Adherent or anchoring junctions
c. Gap or communicating junctions
d. all of the above
Tight or occluding junctions
Formed by interacting proteins of the cadherin family, are points of strong attachment holding together cells of the epithelium.
a. Tight or occluding junctions
b. Adherent or anchoring junctions
c. Gap or communicating junctions
d. all of the above
Adherent or anchoring junctions
Points of cell contact where both plasma membranes have numerous hexameric complexes of transmembrane connexons, each forming a channel allowing passage of small molecules from one cell to the other.
a. Tight or occluding junctions
b. Adherent or anchoring junctions
c. Gap or communicating junctions
d. none of the above
Gap or communicating junctions
Adherent junctions may form zonula adherens that encircle epithelial cells just below their tight junctions or scattered, spot-like attachment sites called _______, both of which are attached to cytoplasmic keratins.
a. Desmosomes
b. Hemidesmosomes
c. Keratin
d. all of the above
desmosomes or maculae adherens