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1
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What are the four different types of tissues in your entire body?

A

Epithelia
Connective (CT)
Muscular
Nervous

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What purpose does microvilli serve?

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To increase surface area and increase absorption

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3
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What connects the epithelial layer to the connective tissue layer?

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Basil lamina

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4
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What purpose does Cilia serve?

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Cause movement

Ex: moving mucous

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What are the two types of epithelial layers

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Simple

Stratified

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What are the different shapes of epithelia

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Squamous
Cuboidal
Columnar

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7
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What are the different types of connections in the lateral sides of epithelia

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Desmosomes and button desmosomes
tight junctions
gap junctions
cell adhesion molecules CAM's
intercellular cement
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8
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What cell is embedded within ciliated epithelia that secrete mucous?

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Goblet cells or mucous cells

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9
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Where would you want simple epethelia?

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Areas of less stress, and places where you want absorption to occur

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Where would you want stratified epithelia

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Places where you do not need absorption to occur and locations of higher stress

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What if you have stratified cuboidal epithelia toward the basal side and squamous looking cells on the apical surface? What kind of epithelia would this be

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Name the epithelia according to the shape of the cells at the most APICAL surface. So it would be simple squamous epithelia.

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12
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Is epithelia Vascular or Avascualr

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Avascular

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How do epithelia get nutrients

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Through blood vessels (capillaries) found in CT that can drop off nutrients through DIFFUSION

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14
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What are the 3 general categories of connective tissue

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CT proper
Supportive CT
Fluid CT

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What are the two categories of CT proper

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Loose CT

Dense CT

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16
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What are the different types of supportive CT

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Cartilage

Bone

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17
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What are the different types of cartilage

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Hyaline, Elastic and Fibrocartilage

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18
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Is cartilage vascular or avascular?

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Avascular

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19
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Is bone vascular or avascular

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very vascular

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20
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what are the different types of fluid ct

A

blood

lymph

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21
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What do all connective tissues have in common

A

made up of some matrix

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22
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what is matrix

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fibers and ground substance

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23
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what are the different kind of fibers

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collagen
elastic
reticular

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24
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what are the different types of ground substances

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water
gooey
crystaline

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25
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Which CT contains a crystaline ground substance

A

bone

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26
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what kind of ct contains a watery ground substance

A

fluid ct

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27
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what kind of ct contains a gooey ground substance

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LCT

loose connective tissue

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28
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All matrix is made up of…

A

fibroblast cells

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29
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what do fibroblast do

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synthesize and secrete the fibers and ground substance that make the matrix that is CT
you always have fibroblast in ct

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30
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List the other cells found in CT

Especially LCT

A 
Macrophages (phagocytes)
Mast cells
Plasma cells
Adipocytes
Mesenchymal cells/stem cells

My Mom Pulls Around Money

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31
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Are fixed macrophages always found in CT

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Yes

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32
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Free macrophages are called __ when found in blood and form__ __ __

A

Monocytes

White Blood Cells

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33
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What is the function of mast cells

A

release histamine

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34
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what is the function of plasma cells

A

release antibodies

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35
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what is the function of adipocytes

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fat cells for insulation protection and energy storage

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36
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what is the purpose of mesenchymal cells

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to make new fibroblast

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37
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do cells last forever

A

no

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38
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List the order of operation of generating CT

A

Stem cells -become–Fibroblast–secrete—matrix–creates— CT

39
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what are the functions of epithelial tissue

A

provide physical absorption
control permeability
provide sensation
produce specialized secretions (glandular epithelium)

40
Q

What are the characteristics of epithelia

A 
Cellularity (cell junctions)
Polarity (apical and basil surfaces)
Avascular
Extensive innervation
Regeneration
41
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Endocrine glands release

A

hormones (into interstitial fluid)

42
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exocrine glands produce

A

secretions
(onto epithelial surfaces)
through ducts

43
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What are the different types of secretion

A

Merocrine
Apocrine
Holocrine

44
Q

Where is merocrine secretion produced

A

Golgi apparatus

45
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What is an example of merocrine secretion

A

sweat glands

46
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Apocrine is produced in the

A

Golgi apparatus

47
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Example of Apocrine secretion

A

mammary gland

48
Q

Holocrine secretion is released by

A

cells bursting, killing gland cells

49
Q

what is an example of holocrine secretion

A

sebacesous gland (like your hair)

50
Q

What are chondrocytes

A

cartilage cells surrounded by lacunae (chambers)

51
Q

what type of tissue makes up membranes

A

Epithelial tissue

52
Q

membranes are supported by

A

connective tissues

53
Q

Membranes are __ __that __ or __ portions of the body

A

Physical barriers

line or cover

54
Q

What are the four membrane types

A

mucous
serous
cutaneous
synovial

55
Q

Lines external openings

A

mucous membranes

56
Q

lines body cavities

A

serous membranes

57
Q

skin is what type of membrane

A

cutaneous

58
Q

Which type of membrane lines joints

A

Synovial Membrane

59
Q

What are the different types of muscle tissue

A

skeletal
cardiac
smooth

60
Q

Moves the body by pulling on bones of the skeleton making it possible for us to walk dance etc

A

Skeletal muscle tissue

61
Q

What kind of tissue contracts to move blood through the blood vessels

A

Cardiac muscle tissue

62
Q

Contractions move fluids and solids along the digestive tract and regulate the diameters of small arteries among other functions

A

smooth muscle tissue

63
Q

Classification of muscle cells

A

striated or nonstriated
single nucleus or multienucleated
voluntary or involuntary

64
Q

Neural tissue is concentrated in the

A

CNS central nervous system
Brain
Spinal cord

65
Q

what are the two kinds of neural cells

A

neurons

neuroglia

66
Q

___ are nerve cells and perform electrical communication

A

neurons

67
Q

___support cells and repair and supply nutrients to neurons

A

neuroglia

the soil and dirt to the red forrest

68
Q

What are the different types of loose CT

A

Areolar, Adipose and Reticular

69
Q

Loose CT have __ gel like ground substance and __ fibers

A

More

Less

70
Q

What are the different types of dense CT

A

Tendons and Ligaments

71
Q

Dense Connective tissue have ___ fibers and __ ground substance

A

More

less

72
Q

What are the 2 different types of fiber orientation in dense CT

A

Regular and Irregular

73
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What are the different types of FLUID CT

A

Blood and Lymph

74
Q

What is the Periosteum

A

covers bone surfaces
fibrous layer
cellular layer

75
Q

What will you typically find in the respiratory tract

A

pseudo stratified ciliated columnar epithelium

76
Q

___ Is a water proofing protein that prohibits water from penetrating the skin

A

Keratin

77
Q

___ does not have a thick layer of dead cells. They have dead cells but not as thick or as much

A

Non-Keratin

78
Q

__ epithelia is always found in the urinary bladder

A

transition

79
Q

What are the different modes of glandular secretion

A

merocrine apocrine and holocrine

80
Q

which mode of glandular secretion is used most by the body?

A

Merocrine

81
Q

On the the apical portion of this mode of glandular secretion it explodes

A

Apocrine

82
Q

Which mode of glandular secretion requires the most energy?

A

Holocrine because you are constantly having to replace the cell

83
Q

___ almost always the connective tissue that is under epithelia

A

Areolar

84
Q

Tree rings on the side means it is a __

A

bone

85
Q

___ when looking at it closely has eyeballs

A

cartilage

86
Q

In loose CT cells are __ placed

A

loosely

87
Q

Dense irregular is compact but…

A

running in all different direction

88
Q

What are the different protein fibers

A

collagen elastic and reticular

89
Q

___ is the thickest fiber

A

collagen

90
Q

Function of fibroblast is to

A

produce the ground substance

91
Q

___ __ are embryonic stem cells, they keep dividing and eventually turn into fibroblast

A

Mesenchymal cells

92
Q

___ are for phagocytosis (cell eating) some are free and some are fixed

A

Macrophage

93
Q

__ and __ prevent blood clotting

A

Histomine and Heparin

94
Q

Goblet cells make__

A

mucus

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