Human Body Systems Flashcards

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What are the levels of organisation and the related fields of study? diagram

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What does the Circulatory/Cardiovascular system include?

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Heart, blood vessels, blood

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What does the digestive system include?

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Stomach, intestine, liver, pancreas

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What does the Endocrine system include?

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Thyroid glad, adrenal gland

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What does the immune system include?

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Thymus, spleen, lymph nodes

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What does the integumentary system include ?

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Skin

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What does the musculoskeletal system include?

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Skeletal muscles, bones

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What does the nervous system include?

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Brain, Spinal cord

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What does the Reproductive System include?

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Ovaries, Uterus, Testes

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Integration between Body Systems ? diagram

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What are tissues?

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What are the main types of tissues?

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  • Connective Tissue
    -Epithelial Tissue
    -Muscle Tissue
    -Neural Tissue
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What is Connective Tissue ?

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-Binds cell and organs
-Protects support and integration

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What is Epithelial Tissue?

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-It covers the exterior, lines internal cavities and some glands

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What is Muscle Tissue?

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-Excitable, contracts
-Skeletal (voluntary),smooth, cardiac

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What is Neural Tissue?

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-Excitable
-Allows propagation of nerve impulses that communicate between different parts of the body

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What is the Extarcellular Matrix (Matrix) ?

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-Material synthesised and secreted by the cells of a tissue

-Proteogylcans (glycoproteins) and insoluble protein fibre (collagen, fibronectin, laminin)

-Very abundant in connective tissue

-Also other functions

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What are Cell Junctions? Diagram

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-They hold cells together

-Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) membrane-spanning proteins.

-Cell junctions/transient cell adhesions

-CAMs eg connexin, claudin, occluding, cadherin

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What are gap junctions ?

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-These are communicating junctions

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What are tight junctions?

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-These are occluding junctions

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What is a desmosome ?

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-A cell-to-cell anchoring junction

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What is the function of Epithelia on tissue?

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-To protect and regulate exchange
- Base : thin layer of matrix ( basal lamina/membrane)
- Exchange

-simple, thin, flattened cells, gaps/pores

-eg rapid gas exchange

-Blood vessels (also called endothelium)/ lung

  • Transporting

-actively regulate aqueous molecules

  • Ciliated
  • Protective
  • Secretory
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What are the types of Epithelia ?

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Simple, Cuboidal, Squamous and Columnar

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What is a simple epithelium?

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What is a stratified epithelium ?

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What is a cuboidal epithelium ?

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27
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What is a Columnar Epithelium ?

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28
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What is a squamous epithelium?

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29
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Why are there tight junctions in a transporting epithelium cell? diagram ?

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-Tight junctions in a transporting epithelium prevent movement between adjacent cells. Substances must instead pass through the epithelial cell, crossing two phospholipid cell membranes as they do so

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What is a Ciliated Epithelia ? diagram

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  • Non-transporting
  • sweep fluids across the surface
  • line respiratory trace/female production
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What is a protective epithelia ?

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  • prevent exchange
  • stratified/stacked layers of cells
  • eg epidermis
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What is a secretory epithelia ?

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  • Glands
  • varied types epithelia
  • exocrine/ endocrine
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What is Connective Tissue?

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-Supports/protects/connects
-Cells dispersed in matrix (ground substance, watery or mineralised)

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What is Homeostasis? diagram

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-Physiologically, keeping the bodys’ environment in a state of equilibrium within ‘normal limits’

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Control of homeostasis ?

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What is the Negative feedback loop? diagram

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‘Negative feedback brings a system back to its level of normal functioning’

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How does the negative feedback loop work?

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  • Human body monitors key functions
  • Glucose regulation
  • Short term control of blood pressure
  • Regulation of ventilation
  • Regulated variables maintained within their acceptable (normal) range by physiological control mechanisms kick in if the variable moves too far from its set point or optimal value
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What is the Regulation in the negative feedback loop?

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  • Oscillations around a set point
  • Detectors have a threshold
  • minimal stimulus to set response in motion
  • Control: short distance or Long distance pathway
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What is support system integration ? diagram

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  • Homeostatic control usually involves part of the endocrine system and part of the nervous system
  • This may be a signal from one or the other, an output from one or the other, or a mix of both to one another or to each other
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What are Control Systems?

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  • Local: Autocrine/paracrine
  • Long distance: reflex control

input signal → integrating system → output signal → Response

-The complexity of the control depends on the level of integration

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What is the Integration Centre ? diagram

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  • This is where the greatest control comes in-your brain
  • if the response reduces the intensity of the stimulus the system is operating negative feedback
  • if the response enhances or intensifies the stimulus, a system is operating by positive feedback
  • The hypothalamus and the pituitary are fantastic examples of integrators.
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With control comes balance - What is Afferent?

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Afferent = towards a centre

-think ‘affects the system’

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With control comes balance - What is Efferent? diagram

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-Efferent = away from a centre

-think ‘effects something in response’

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What is a set point? and how can they change?

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  • Circadian Rhythms
  • Fever:

-Elevation of core body temperature above a ‘set point’

-normally regulated by the body’s thermoregulatory centre in the hypothalamus

-secondary to a pathological process, the release of immunological mediators that trigger the hypothalamus to elevate the body’s core temperature.

-an increase in the ‘set point’ temperature, enables the body to maintain a controlled ‘increase’ of the core temperature and functionality of all organ systems.

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What are acclimatisations?

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  • Transient physiological modifications
  • Changes last only as long as exposure
  • Not genetically transmissible
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What is a positive feedback loop? Not Homeostasis diagram and example

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-Not homeostasis

-Positive feedback enhances or accelerates output created by an activated stimulus’

  • Strengthens or reinforces a change in a controlled condition
  • Physiological response of effector reinforces the initial change
  • Continues until interrupted by a mechanism external to the loop
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What are the 4 main types of tissue?

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-Neural
-Muscular
-Connective
-Epithelial

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What is the extracellular matrix ?

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-it is abundant in connective tissue

49
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What are cell junctions?

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  • hold cells together
50
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What is Epithelia ?

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-Regulate and protect

51
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What are the 3 key types of connective tissues?

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-True
-Supportive
-Fluid

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What is Homeostasis ?

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keeps body within normal limits

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What does Negative feedback do?

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maintains variation around a set point

54
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What is reflex control?

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-consists of a stimulus, an integrating centre and a response

55
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What is the Integrating centre?

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brain