HE 35,36 Integument Flashcards
Major function of the Integument and its two main divisions
protection, vitamin D production, immunologic, sensation though nerves and thermoregulation through sweat.
Integument: epidermins and dermis
Derivatives: hair follicles, sebacious glands, sweat, nails, mammary
Basement Membrane of integument
basil lamina (type IV) and retucular lamina (type III)
basal lamina aka lemina densa, light layer behind it is the lamina lucida
Epidermins and Dermis (General)
epi: dertinized stratified squamous epithelium
- rete riddes (epidermis dropping into dermis)
dermis: loose (close to epi) and Di CT
- papillae: dermis into epidermins
anchoring and adhering jxns between derm/epiderm
Dermatoglyphics
fingerprint ID
- integument grooves and ridges (Gross)
- each person genetically unique
(Much larger than dermal papillae and rete ridges)
Differences between thick and thin skin
refers to teh thickness of the epidermal layer
(thick-hairless palms and soles of feet)
epidermis stayes the same …karatinized layer is what changes
Layers of integument
strateum corneum 9with deam stratum lucidum and thick skin )
stratum granulosum
stratum spinosum (prickle cell layer)
stratum basale (stratum germinatium (germ layer))
Stratum Basale
Single cell layer adjacent to BL
cuboidal to low columnar
vit D productino
Stem cells (only mitotically active layer)
extensive cell jxns
- desmosomes
- hemidesmosomes (tether to BL)
Psoriasis
normal transit tiem from basal cell to desquamation is 50-60 days.
with psoriasis, rapid proliferation shortens to 7 days
stratum spinosum
prickle cell layer
severl layers thick
cuboidal to squamous at surface edge
vit D production
mitotically INACTIVE
cytoplasmic processes (spines) (pm looks like intracellular bridges) it is the desmosomes tethering together
desmosomes at light level, nodes of bizzozero
stratum granulosum
1-3 cells thick
squamous
nucleated
keratohyalin granules (small dark spots)
stratum corneum
variable thickness
squamous
ANUCLEATE
keratinized (PACKED)
-soft keratin made of IF;s
Dermis
papillary layer: loose CT
- more cellular
- lots of ground substance
- loosely arranged fibers
- thin collagen fibers (I, III) same as ret from BL
- thin elastic fibers
reticular layer
- DiCT
- less cellular
- closely packed fiber bundles
- thick collagen fibers
- thick elastic fibers
EVG stain collagen fibers RED elastic fibers BLACK
weigart elastic stain : see more in reticular layer
wound healing
collagen and elastic fibers oriented in parallel lines
LANGER LINES
surgical incisions parallel to langers lines heal faster
- stratum basale ramps up mitosis,
- micration of proliferating cells
- exfoliation (scab falls) of dead keratinocytes
- fibroblasts differenctiate into myofibroblasts
myofibroblasts also involved inclosure via actin/myosin contractile motion
cells of epidermis
keratinocyes
- keratinization
- accumulation of keratohyalin granules is characteristic histological feature that begins in stratum spinosuma nd collects in stratum granulosum
keratohyalin granules
release IF associated protiens liek Filaggrin to aggregate kerativ filaments (IF)
-become TONOfilaments and tono fibrils
stratum corneum just bags full of KG