Integumentary System Flashcards
What is made up of proteins and lipids that surrounds the cell?
Plasma membrane
What are the functions of the plasma membrane?
Defines cell boundaries
Governs interactions with other cells
Controls passage of materials in and around the cell
What is it celled when cells are joined together?
Junction
True or false -
There are four categories of junctions tight, loose, gap, and desmosome.
False - there are three categories of junctions.
Tight, desmosome, and gap
What type of junction uses transmembrane cell-adhesion proteins?
Tight junctions
Where are tight junctions found in the body?
In the skin and digestive track, this makes it so that acid and bacteria can not get places they are not meant to be.
Where are desmosomes found?
In epithelium and cardiac muscle
Explain what a gap junction looks like.
6 transmembrane proteins that are arranged around a pore. Allows ions, nutrients, and small solutes to pass from cell to cell.
True or false -
Secretion is a waste product
False secretion is a useful product
Endocrine and _______ are to two types of classifications of glands.
Exocrine
Explain the difference between exocrine and endocrine glands.
Exocrine glands have contact with epithelial surface through ducts. These surfaces can be internal or external.
Endocrine glands - Secretes directly into the blood, these can be hormones.
What are the two classifications of exocrine glands?
Serous glands - thin and watery fluid
Mucus glands - secretes mucin
Mixed glands - they have the ability to do both
__________ is a type of exocrine secretion that uses a vesicle to travel to the surface and release to the exterior.
Merocrine, used exocytosis. Think tear glands, mammary glands, and pancreous. Think of a pimple
__________ is a type of exocrine secretion that uses cytosol to package and push to the surface.
Aprocrine, they are like little droplets at the surface that bud off
__________ is a type of exocrine secretion that secretes the entire gland.
Holocrine glands rupture at the surface which also includes the plasma membrane. Think of self destruction. Oil glands of the scalp and eye lids.
What does the mucus membrane line?
Passage ways like digestive, respiratory, urinary, and reproductive.
What type of membrane lines the thoracic and abdominopelivc cavities?
Serous membranes that have serous fluid to reduce friction
What are the two primary regions of the integumentary system?
Epidermis
Dermis
(Hypodermis)
What are the six functions of the skin?
Protection - bacteria invasions, physical trauma, UV radiation
Water regulation - Cells that control water in and out
Vitamin D production - Need UV and this is essential for bone production
Sensory information - touch, pain, pressure, and temp
Regulate body temp - Increase and decrease of the temp
Communication - facial expressions
_________ skin has sweat glands and no hair follicles or sebaceous glands.
Thick
What is the outer most layer of the epidermis made of?
Keratinized stratified squamous epithelium. It is the outer region that is thinner. These are dead cells with keratin, they do not have blood vessels.
What are the five cells that make up the epidermis?
Stem cells Keratinocytes Melanocytes Tactile cells Dentritic cells
________ synthesize melanin and are found at the stratum basale. They are used to shield the DNA
Melanocytes
What is the most abundant cell in the epidermis?
Keratinocytes
True or false -
Tactile cells originate in bone marrow and are immune cells.
False Dendritic cells are immune cells that originate in the bone marrow. They are found in the stratum spinosum and stratum granulosm
Where are tactile cells found and what is the function?
Found in the stratum basale and they are touch receptors that are associated with dermal nerve fibers..
True or false -
Thin skin contains 4 strata and thick skin contains 5.
(list them)
True Deepest layer - stratum basale Stratum spinosum Stratum granulosum Stratum lucidum - Not found in thin skin Stratum cornium