Exam 1: Lecture 11: Integumentary system Flashcards
What is the largest organ in the body based on bulk
Skin
Which organ in the body protects from desiccation and environment + communicates with the environment
Skin
Which compartment of the skin is keratonized stratified squamous epithelial cells and mainly dead skin
Epidermis
Which compartment of the skin is collagenous, elastic, and reticular fibers that make smooth muscle and known as living tissue
Dermis
What is structure and thickness based on in animals
Breed
Age
Sex
What species of animals have the thickest skin structure
Cattle
Which species of animals have the thinnest skin structure?
Dogs
Stratum: corneum, lucidum, granulosum, spinosum, and basale are layers of what portion of skin
Epidermis
What structure of the epidermis is this?
- water barrier
- hoarding layer of dead keratonized cells
Sheets of lipids - makes the water barrier
Stratum corneum
What structure of the epidermis is this?
- thin hyaline layer
- absent in most domestic animals except for hooved margins, teets, and perianal regions
Stratum lucidum
What structure of the epidermis is this?
- transitional zone between viable cells below and keratonized cells above
- nucleus are absent / abnormal
- thickness varies based on species
Stratum granulosum
What structure of the epidermis is this?
- prickle cell layer: cell junctions look like spines
Stratum spinosum
What structure of the epidermis is this?
- keratinocytes
- in contact with basement membrane of dermis below
- very viable layer
Stratum basale
The following are cells or what portion of skin?
- melanocytes
- mast cells
- langerhans cells
- merkel cells
Epidermis
What cells of the epidermis is this?
- melanin ligament in cytoplasm
- dendritic process: keratonized acquire melanin: helps prevent sunburn
Melanocytes
What cells of the epidermis is this?
- release heparin, histamine, and serotonin
- anticoagulation: prevent blood from clotting
- stimulate local inflammatory reactions to dispose of antigens
Mast cells
What cells of the epidermis is this?
- take up antigens and present to T cells
- particularly important in ruminants
- produce lymphokines (IL-1)
Langerhans cells
What cells of the epidermis is this?
- found in the epidermis with hairy surface, nail matrix, plasms and subepidermal mesenchyme
- sensory receptors (close to nerve terminals)
Merkel cells
Which portion of the skin is fibrous connective tissue
Dermis
Where does the epidermis grow and obtain nutrients
Dermis
Which portion of the skin is interwoven pattern of collagen bundles crossing larger collagen fibers?
Dermis
Which portion of the skin contains Mucopolysaccharides?
Dermis
What are Mucopolysaccharides good for in the dermis?
Metabolism of cells
Controlling water and electrolytes
Calcification
Lubercation