Exam 2 Flashcards
What are the two types of epithelium?
Covering and lining epithelia - Skin
Glandular epithelia - secretory tissue in glands
What are the functions of the epithelium?
Protection Excretion Absorption Secretion Filtration Sensory reception
What are the five characteristics of epithelia tissue?
Polarity Specialized contacts Supported by connective tissue Avasscular Can regenerate
What are the four types of tissue?
Connective - Supports and protects
Muscular - Produces movement
Epithelium - Covers and forms lining
Nervous - Controls
What is the basement membrane?
Basal and reticular lamina
Reinforces epithelial sheet
Resists stretching and tearing
Defines epithelial boundary
How are adjacent cells bound in epithelial tissue?
Desmosomes and tight junctions
What is the reticular lamina?
Connective tissue that supports the epithelium
Deep to the basal lamina
Network of collagen fibers
What is simple epithelia?
One cell layer thick
What is stratified epithelia?
Two or more layers of cells
What are the three different cell shapes?
Squamous - flattened
Cuboidal - cubes
Columnar - columns
What are the different types of epithelia tissue?
Simple squamous Simple cuboidal Simple columnar Pseudostratified columnar Stratified squamous Stratified cuboidal Stratified columnar Transitional
What is significant about simple squamous cells and where are they located?
Allows materials to pass by diffusion and filtration
Found in kidneys, aveoli, and blood vessels
What is the endothelium?
Simple squamous tissue that lines the lymphatic vessels, blood vessels and heart
What is the mesothelium?
Simple squamous epithelium of serus membranes in ventral cavity
What is significant about simple cuboidal cells and where are they located?
Functions in secretion and absorption
Found in kidney, tubules, ovary, surface, ducts of small glands
What is significant about simple columnar cells and where are they located?
Function in absorption and secretion of mucus and enzymes
Found in digestive tract, gall bladder and excretory ducts
What is significant about pseudostratified columnar cells and where are they found?
Secrets substances, particularly mucus
Propels mucus with cilia
Found in trachea and lining bronchi into lungs
What is significant about stratified squamous cells and where are they found?
Protects underlying tissues
Found in skin, mouth and esophagus
What is significant about stratified cuboidal cells and where are they found?
Found in sweat and mammary glands
What is significant about transitional cells and where are they found?
Ability to change shape with stretch
Found in bladder
What is significant about stratified columnar cells and where are they found
Found in pharynx and male urethra
What is a gland?
One or more cells that make and secrete a secretion
What are the two types of glands?
Endocrine - ductless gland, secretion right into blood or lymph
Exocrine - Secretions released onto skin or into organs
What are unicellular glands called?
Goblet cells
What does the pancreas secrete?
Insulin (endocrine) Pancreatic juices (exocrine)
What are the three types of secretion?
Merocrine - secretes as produced, secretes by exocytosis (Pancreas, sweat glands, salivary)
Holocrine - Accumulates products within and then ruptures (oil glands)
Apocrine - Accumulates products within, but only tip ruptures (Mammary glands)
What are tubular glands?
Straight cells
What are alveolar cells?
Bulb shaped
What are the four main classes of connective tissue?
Connective tissue proper
Cartilage
Bone
Blood
What are the major functions of connective tissue?
Binds and supports Protects Transport Insulation Fuel reserve
What are the characteristics of connective tissue?
Have mesenchyme as a common tissue of origin
Have varying degree of vascularity
Have extra cellular matrix (liquid and fibers)
What are the three elements that make up connective tissue?
Ground substance
Fibers
Cells
What is the ground substance in connective tissue?
Interstitial fluid - fluid surrounding cell
Adhesion proteins
Proteoglycans
What do the fibers do in connective tissue?
Provide support
What are the three types of fibers in connective tissue?
Collagen - Thick fibers, strong structural support
Elastic - Thin stringy, allow stretch and recoil
Reticular - Strong but also allow stretch
What are the types of cells in connective tissue?
Blasts Cytes Fat cells White blood cells mast cells macrophages
What do mast cells do?
Reduce inflamation
What are the subclasses of connective tissue proper?
Loose connective tissue
Dense connective tissue
What are the characteristics of loose connective tissue?
Support and bind other tissues
Store nutrients as fat
Defend against infection
What are the subclasses of dense connective tissue?
Dense regular
Dense irregular
Elastic
What are the characteristics of dense regular tissue?
Attaches muscles to bone or muscles
Tendons and ligaments
What are the characteristics of dense irregular tissue?
Withstands tension in many directions
Joints and dermis of the skin
What are the characteristics of elastic tissue?
Allows to recoil after switching
Walls of arteries
What are the characteristics of cartilage?
Tough yet flexible
Lacks nerve fibers
Avascular
What are the types of cartilage?
Hyaline
Elastic
Fibrocartilage
What are the characteristics of hyaline cartilage?
Supports and reinforces
Serves as a resilient cushion
Covers ends of bones, ribs
What are the characteristics of elastic cartilage?
Maintains shape while allowing great flexibility
Supports external ear
What are the characteristics of fibrocartilage?
Allows to absorb compressive shock
Inter vertebral discs and knee joint
What are the characteristics of bone?
Has inorganic calcium salts
Supports and protects
Also called osseous tissue
Stores fat and synthesizes blood cells in cavities
What is the function of blood?
Transportation
What is the function of muscle?
Highly vascularized
Provides movement
What are the three types of muscle?
Skeletal - striations, multinucleated, voluntary
Cardiac - Intercalated discs, heart contractions
Smooth muscle - Involuntary, no striations, found lining hollow organs
What are neurons?
Cells that conduct and transmit electrical signals
What are neuroglia?
Supporting cells that support, insulate, and protect neurons
What is the soma?
Area where the nucleus is located in a nervous cell
What is the dendrite?
Extensions from nerve cell that pick up stimulus
What is the axon tunnel?
Tunnel on nerve cells that signals are sent down
What are the three types of membranes?
Cutaneous - skin, dry membrane
Mucous - line body cavities open to exterior, moist
Serous - found in closed body cavity, moist
What are the two ways tissue repair can occur?
Regeneration - restores original function
Fibrosis - original function lost (scars)
What tissues regenerate extremely well?
Blood Bone Epithelium Dense irregular Areolar
What tissues regenerate moderately well?
Smooth muscle
What tissues have virtually no regenerative capacity?
Cardiac and nervous
What are the three types of developmental tissue?
Ectoderm - nervous
Mesoderm - muscle
Endoderm - innner lining of digestive system
What are the two layers of the integumentary system?
Dermis - mostly fibrous connective tissue
Epidermis - superficial
What is the hypodermis?
Anchors skin to underlying structures
Mostly adipose tissue that absorbs shock and insulation
What are the four layers of the epidermis?
Stratum basale - actively dividing, house melanocytes
Stratum spinosum - House keratinocytes
Stratum granulosum
Stratum corneum - dead cells, 20-30 layers
What are melanocytes?
Store melanin that defines skin color and protects DNA from the sun
What are keratinocyctes?
Secrete keratin
What are lemellar granules?
Release lipids which help make skin water proof
What are the layers of the dermis?
Papillary
Reticular
What is the papillary layer composed of?
Areolar connective tissue
Dermal papillae
What are dermal papillae?
Thick skin lie on dermal ridges cause epidermal ridges
Enhance gripping ability
Contribute to sense of touch
Pattern is fingerprint
What is the reticular layer?
Composed of dense irregular fibrous connective tissue