Exam 3 Biology Flashcards
Simple Squamos E
Look: looks like an egg, one layer, and friction reducing
Location: lining of blood and lymph vessels, air sacs of lungs, and abdominal membrane
Function: diffusion, filtrations, and possible secretion of some lubricants
Simple Cuboidal E
Look: one layer, cube or square shaped
Location: ducts, secretory parts of small glands, retina, kidney tubules, ovaries, testes, and bronchioles
Function: secretion and absorption
Simple Columnar E
Look: one layer, column shaped
Location: glands, ducts, gut, parts of uterus, and small bronchi
Function: secretion, absorption, and sometimes movement
Pseudostratified Ciliated Columnar E
Look: one layer, varying heights so it looks like multiple layers, nuclei at different levels, surface may have cilia or mucous secreting glands
Location: trachea
Function: secretion of mucous and propulsion (movement) of mucous
Transitional Epithelium
Look: binucleated, dome-shaped, resembles both stratified squamos or cuboidal cells.
Location: lines the uterus, urethra, and bladder
Function: to swell, stretch, or enlarge to allow for more space (think of your bladder filling with urine)
Stratified Squamos (Keratinized or not) E
Look: multiple layers of squamos
Location: non-keratinized is in the anus, mouth(lips), pharynx, and esophagus, but keratinized is primarily the skin
Function: to protect and keratin also waterproofs
Stratified Cuboidal E
Lines the ducts of sweat glands, and secretes water and ions
Stratified Columnar E
Lines epididymis (duct that allows sperm to pass), mammary glands, and larynx and also secretes mucous
Extracellular Matrix Definition
The noncellular component present within tissues. ex. collagen for dense fibrous connective tissue.
Dense Regular Fibrous C
Facts: a lot of collagen, not very flexible but strong, also tendons (muscle to bone) and ligaments (bone to bone), it is made of fibroblast cells like all other fibrous cells. Think straight lines.
Dense Irregular Fibrous C
Facts: same function as regular, but it is found in the dermis of the skin. Lines in every direction
Loose Fibrous C
Facts: flexible, fewer cells and fibers, found in soft organs like the spleen, liver, and lymph nodes, also the subtype adipose tissue (adipocytes) is just regular body fat that insulates and protects the body.
Elastic Fibrous C
Facts: more elastin than collagen fibers, and it is found in the lungs
Hyaline Cartilage
Similarities: Like all other cartilage it is secreted from chondrocytes within lacunae (cavities in the body) and is made of collagen and elastin fibers with a rubbery ground substance
Facts: fine collagen fibers, found in the nose, trachea, and fetal skeletons
Fibrocartilage
Facts: very strong collagen fibers, found in the discs within the vertebrae and knee joints.
Elastic Cartilage
Facts: more elastic fibers than the other types of cartilage, and found in the outer ear and epiglottis
Compact Bone C
Similarities: made up of osteocytes within lacunae and connected by channels called canaliculi, matrix is solid and rigid, made of collagen, calcium, and phosphorous salts
Facts: repeating circular units called osteons, found in the shafts of long bones
Spongy Bone C
Facts: an open, latticework with irregular spaces, found in ends of long bones
Fluid C
Made up of plasma. Includes Erythrocytes, Leukocytes, and Thrombocytes aka formed elements. A build of up Leukocytes is called lymph tissue
Skeletal Muscle
Facts: long and cylindrical, voluntary, striated, fast, and multinucleated (biceps, triceps, basically traditional muscles)
Smooth Muscle
Facts: spindle-shaped, involuntary, not striated, slow, and single nucleus, found in the walls of internal organs and blood vessels
Cardiac Muscle
Facts: branched cells, involuntary, striated, single nucleus, fast, and only found in the heart. It has intercollated discs to communicate
Neurons
Axon: Long tail that sends out messages
Dendrites: look likes hairs and the receive messages
Soma: the cell body
Nucleus: the brain of the cell inside the soma
Myelin Sheath: fatty substance that propagates the signal faster
Includes sensory neurons (receives to spine and brain) and motor (sends to muscles and glands)
4 Types of Neuroglia
Facts: 90% of the nervous system, brings nutrients to neurons, and provides physical support
Oligodendrocytes: produces myelin sheath around axons for the central nervous system (brain and spine)
Schwann Cells: produces myelin sheath around axons for the peripheral nervous system (anything outside of the brain and spine)
Astrocytes: produces a hormone (glia-derived growth factor) that repairs damaged nervous tissue
Microglia: engulfs and removes cell debris and bacteria
3 Types of Junctions
Facts: knits the cells firmly together, stops leaks, and serves as communication channels
Tight: is impermeable and found in the epithelium of the lungs specifically alveoli
Adhering: cements cells together but is flexible, found in the epithelium of the skin, and a specific kind is desmosomes
Gap: channels that connect the cytoplasm of neighboring cells and it is abundant in smooth and cardiac muscles. In the heart they are called intercalated discs.
Mucous Membrane
Similarities: like all the other tissue membranes, it is made up of epithelium and connective tissues. It is used to protect tissues and lubricate organs.
Facts: Designed to secrete and absorb substances, most have glands, and they line tubes and cavities
Serous Membrane
Facts: occurs in paired sheets, found in the peritoneum, pericardium, and the pleura in the lungs.
Cutaneous Membrane
Facts: dry membrane found in skin
Synovial Membranes
Facts: Line cavities of movable joints, lubricates the ends of bones, and prevents friction between the bones and moving tendons.
Basement Membranes
A membrane the epithelial tissues adhere to and it separates different tissues.
Heart vs. Blood Vessels
Heart: Generates pressure, and heart rate is variable
Blood vessels: regulates blood pressure, transports blood, and exchange of nutrients and gases
4 Layers of Heart
Pericardium: Outermost layer
Epicardium: Small layer between the myocardium and pericardium
Myocardium: The muscle of the heart
Endocardium: The deepest layer and it is the inside layer of the heart (where the blood touches the atrium or ventricles)
Cardiac Output
Every 60 seconds approximately 5 liters of blood circulates through your heart.
Order of Electrical Signal through Heart
SA Node –> AV Node –> Atrioventricular Bundle (bundle of HIS) –> Left and Right Bundle Branches –> Purkinje Fibers
What does Sympathetic Nervous System affect?
Stroke Volume, which in turns affects cardiac output
What does Parasympathetic Nervous System affect?
Heart Rate, which in turns affects cardiac output
Order of Blood Vessels
Heart –> Arteries (Blood Pressure and Blood Flow highest) –> Arterioles –> Capillaries (Slowest blood flow) –> Venules –> Veins (Lowest blood pressure)
Arteries
Carries blood away from the heart. 3 layers: outer is CT (collagen), middle is smooth muscle and elastin, and the inner is endothelium (simple squamos). The radial artery in your wrist is where you check the pulse.
Arteriole
Away from heart. 2 layers: smooth muscle and endothelium. This is responsible for and regulates blood pressure. They either dilate (decrease bp) or constrict (increase bp).
Capillary
We have around 40 billion capillaries. It is only one cell thick so it only has the simple squamos layer (NO SMOOTH MUSCLE). Diffusion happens across the walls, and the blood moves slow because the diffusion of nutrients and oxygen takes time.
Precapillary Sphincter
Only some of your capillaries are receiving blood at a given time. This controls what capillaries get blood and what ones don’t.
Arteriovenous Shunt
When the precapillary sphincters close (contract) blood stops going to the capillary bed and goes directly into the venules.