Epithelium Flashcards
What is the histological name of respiratory epithelium?
Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium
What type of tissue lines sub-tracheal glands?
Simple cuboidal epithelium
What type of tissue lines the bronchus?
Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium
What type of tissues lines bronchioles?
Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium
What tissue lines terminal bronchioles?
Starts as Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium, transitions to Ciliated simple columnar epithelium, and finally to simple squamous epithelium in the alveoli.
What types of tissue lines the alveoli?
Simple squamous epithelium
What type of tissue lines the esophagus?
Stratified squamous epithelium
How can you distinguish the stratified squamous epithelium of the esophagus from the simple squamous of the epidermis and vagina?
Differs from the epidermis in not having multiple layers
Differs from vagina in not having light stained glycogen saturated epithelium
What type of cells line the distal convoluted tubule?
Simple cuboidal epithelium
What type of cells line the proximal convoluted tubule?
Simple cuboidal epithelium with a brush border.
What type of cells make up the macula densa?
Modified simple cuboidal epithelium
What cells make up the visceral layer of bowman’s capsule?
Simple squamous epithelium with podocytes.
What structures make up the renal corpuscle?
Bowman’s capsule and the glomularis.
What cells make up the parietal layer of bowman’s capsule?
Simple squamous epithelium with tight junctions.
What cells make up the epithelium of the thin portion of the loop of henle?
Simple squamous epithelium