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Histology Flashcards

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Tissues

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Groups of cells similar in structure that perform common or related function

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Four Basic Tissues

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epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissue

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Epithelial

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a sheet of cells that covers body surfaces or cavities

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Two Types of Epithelial

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  • Covering and lining epithelial
  • Glandular epithelia
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Glandular Epithelia

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Secretory tissue in glands

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Functions of Epithelial Tissues

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protection, absorption, filtration, excretion, secretion, and sensory reception

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Connective Tissue

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  • mainly helped by extracellular matrix
  • connects things and makes up cartilage
  • widest range of properties
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Epithelial Tissue Charactertistics

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Polarity
Specialized contacts
Supported by connective tissues
Avascular, but innervated
Regeneration

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Polarity

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having a top and bottom

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Avascular

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without blood supply

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Apical side

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top ; exposed to cavity

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Basal side

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inwards to body ; connects to connective tissue

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Basal Lamina

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connective tissue that connects to bottom of epithelial tissue

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Reticular Lamina

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  • under basal lamina
  • consists of collagen fibers
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Specialized contacts

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  • have tight junctions and desmosomes that allow formation of sheets of epithelial tissue
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Lack of Desmosomes

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causes blisters

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Simple Epithelia

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a single layer thick

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Stratified Epithelia

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two or more layers thick and involved in protection (example: skin)

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Squamous

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flattened and scale like

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Cuboidal

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box-like, cube

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Columnar

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tall, column-like

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Naming in Stratified Epithelial Cells

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In stratified epithelia, shape can vary in each layer, so cell is named according to the shape in apical layer

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Simple Squamous

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thinnest layer ; makes absorption and secretion fast

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Simple Cuboidal

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Roughly same size for length and
- Forms walls of smallest ducts of glands and many kidney tubules

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Simple Columnar

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Single layer of tall, closely packed cells ; involved in absorption and secretion and have cilia

  • Found in digestive tract, gallbladder, ducts of some glands, bronchi, and uterine tubes
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Pseudostratified columnar epithelium

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  • respiratory eptihelial
  • Cells vary in height and appear to be multi-layered and stratified, but tissue is in fact single-layered simple epithelium
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Stratified Squamous

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  • protective
  • on top of skin and esophagus
  • not good absorption and etc.
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Transitional Epithelium

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  • forms lining of hollow urinary organs
  • stretchy and stays waterproof
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Gland

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one or more cells that makes and secretes an aqueous fluid called a secretion

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Endocrine

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internally secreting ; drops stuff straight into circulatory system which negates ducts

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Exocrine

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externally secreting

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Connective Tissue Function

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-catch all group
- makes most of body
- binding and support, protecting, insulating, storing reserve fuel, and transporting substances (blood)

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Extracellular Membrane

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connect muscle to muscle, bone to bone, tissue to tissue

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What does connective tissue make up?

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Includes Bone, Blood, fat, and other tissues derived from the mesenchyme

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Four Main Classes of Connective Tissue

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Cartilage
Bone
Blood
Connective Tissue Proper

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What makes connective tissue different from other tissues?

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  • all arise from mesenchyme tissue as their tissue of origin
    -Have varying degrees of vascularity
    -Cells are suspended/embedded in extracellular matrix
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What is the function of the matrix?

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Matrix supports cells so they can bear weight, withstand tension, endure abuse

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Three Main Elements of of Connective Tissue

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Ground substance
Fibers
Cells

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What two substances make up the extracellular matrix?

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The first two elements (ground substance and fibers)

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Types of Fibers

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  • Collages
  • Elastic
  • Reticular
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Collagen Fiber

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Strongest and most abundant type

Tough; provides high tensile strength

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Elastic Fiber

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long, thin, elastin fibers that allow for stretch and recoil

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Reticular Fiber

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Short, fine, highly branched collagenous fibers (different chemistry and form from collagen fibers)
- offer more “give”
- holds water

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Proper Dense Connective

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  • makes up tendons and ligments
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Proper Dense Elastic Connective Tissue

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  • make up aorta and veins to allow for more flexibility \
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Proper Dense Irregular Tissue

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fibers do not run in same direction, hold together bones

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Proper Loose Adipose

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fat cells - store and release fat

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Areolar Connective Tissue

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  • fat cells are contained
  • Loose fibers allow for increased ground substance, which can act as water reservoir by holding more interstitial fluid
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Cartilage and 2 features

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  • made by ground substance, chondrocytes (cartilage cells)
  • avascular and cannot regenerate well
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Hyaline Cartilage

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found in bones

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Proper Cartilage Elastic

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stretchier

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Fibrocartilage

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  • found in between your vertebrae
  • contains collagen that makes it extra dense
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Osseus Tissue

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  • Bone
  • Supports and protects body structures
  • type of connective tissue
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Blood

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  • plasma
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Ground substance

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background material within which all other connective tissue elements are embedded. ; consist mainly of water

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Function of Skeletal Muscle Tissue

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  • attached to and causes movement of bones
  • can be consciously controlled
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Three types of muscle tissues

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  • Skeletal muscle
  • Cardiac muscle
  • Smooth muscle
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Myofilaments

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made up of actin and myosin proteins that bring about contraction

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Muscle Fiber Features

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cells that hold multiple nuclei and are striated

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Cardiac Muscle Fibers Features

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  • found only in walls of heart
  • involuntary muscle
  • cells have many branches that join branches if other cardiac cells
  • stimulated by each other
  • one nuclei but visible striations
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Intercalated discs

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special joints where cardiac cells are joined with gap junctions that allow them to talk to each other

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Smooth Muscle Tissue Features

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  • found in walls of hollow organs
  • no visible striations
    -involuntary
  • found in glands
  • one nucleus
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Nervous Tissue

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Main component of nervous system (brain, spinal cord, nerves)

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Neurons

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specialized nerve cells that generate and conduct nerve impulses

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Glial (Neuroglial) cells

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support, nourish, and protect the neurons

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