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The zone of proliferation is characterized by what?

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Stacked chondrocytes in hyaline cartilage

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What is the the next zone of chondro ossification after the zone of proliferation? How does this look compared to the zone of proliferation?

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The zone of maturation, where the stacked chondrocytes lacunae increase in size

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What is the zone after the zone of maturation? How does this appear compared to the zone of maturation?

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The zone of hypertrophy, characterized by increased lacunae size, and calcification

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What is the zone after the zone of hypertrohpy? How does this appear compared to the zone of hypertrophy?

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The zone of calcification

No cells, as well as increased calcified cartilage

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Does calcified cartilage have cells?

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No

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What is the zone after the zone of calcification?

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The zone of resorption

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What is characteristic of calcified cartilage histologically? How does this compare to bone?

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It is very basophilic, and will stain lighter than bone

Also, cells are ABSENT

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Is osteoid acidophilic or basophilic?

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Acidophilic

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Are osteoclasts acidophilic or basophilic?

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Acidphilic

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What are the three characteristics of plasma cells histologically?

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  1. eccentrically place nuclei
  2. clockface/ heterochromatic nucleus
  3. Negative golgi
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How can you distinguish between elastic fibers and reticular fibers?

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By the type of cells that surround them

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How do reticular fibers and elastic fibers appear histologically?

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Black fibers that branch

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Is bone acidophilic or basophilic?

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acidophilic

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Are osteoblasts acidophilic or basophilic? What shape are they? Does their gogli stain well? How will its nucleus appear?

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  1. Basophilic (ribosomes)
  2. Cuboidal shape
  3. negtive golgi
  4. Euchromatic nucleus
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Are osteoclasts acidophilic or basophilic? Do they have one or many nuclei?

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Acidophilic due to lysosomes

Multinucleated

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What are the canals that connect Halversian canals?

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Volkmann’s

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Is the periosteum acidophilic or basophilic?

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acidophilic

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What type of connective tissue is in periosteum?

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Dense, irregular

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Where in the periosteum are osteoblasts?

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In the dark layer on the matrix side

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Are multipolar neurons acidophilic or basophilic?

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Basophilic due to rER

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What is the nissl substance?

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rER

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How does the axon hillock appear?

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Devoid of nissl substance

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What is the black ring the surrounds some neuron?

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The myelin of a Schwann cell

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How does myelin appear in micrographs?

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Black (osmium i think)

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What type of neurons will you see in a cross section of a dorsal root ganglia?
Pseudounipolar neurons
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What shape are pseudounipolar neurons? Do they have euchromatic or heterochromatic nuclei? What other basophilic substance do they have?
Oval or round shape Heterochromatic Nissl bodies
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What surrounds the soma of a pseudounipolar neurons?
Satellite cells
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How are multiple pseudounipolar neurons arranged relative to each other?
in clumps
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What type of neurons are motor neurons? How does their nucleus appear?
Multipolar | Euchromatic nucleus
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How do cells aggregate in motor neurons in the ANS?
Dispersed
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Why are there fewer satellite cells around multipolar nerve cells?
More dendrites
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Looking at a micrograph, you see a very dark cell body with a single process sticking off of it, followed by a huge branching network from that single process. What type of cell is this?
Purkinje cell in the brain
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Where are pyramidal cells located? What type of neurons are these?
Cerebral cortex | Motor neurons with multipolar bodies
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What are the stellate shaped glial cells?
Astrocytes
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How do Ependymal cells appear? Where are they found? What specialization do they have?
Simple cuboidal/columnar the surround ventricles/spinal cord Specialization = cili
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Looking at a micrograph, you see a glial cell that is black, has tiny cellular processes, and a small nucleus. What type of cell is this?
Microglial
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How do skeletal muscle cell nuclei appear?
Elongated and euchromatic
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What surrounds muscle fasicles? What is its function?
Perimysium provide nutrients
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What are the more lightly stained parts of the muscles cells?
I bands
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What is the black line that lies within I bands?
Z plate
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What are the dark staining areas in striated muscles?
A bands
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What are the three features of cardiac muscles?
1. Oval, central nucleus 2. Branching pattern 3. Intercalated disc
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What are intercalated discs?
Connections between cardiac muscle cells
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How much vascularity is there in cardiac muscle?
Tons
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How do nuclei appear in smooth muscle cells?
SUPER elongated (fusiform appearance)
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Are muscle cells cyptoplasm acidophilic or basophilic?
Acidophilic
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Are smooth muscle cells striated?
No
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What is the only muscle type that does not have a centrally located nucleus?
Skeletal muscle
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What forms the roof of the scal media? The floor?
Roof = vestibular membrane Floor = Basilar membrane
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What is produced from the stria vascularis?
Endolymph
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What is the bone that is on the side of the scala media?
Osseous spiral lamina
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What is the the lamina that sits above the osseous spiral lamina, and lateral to the scala media?
Spiral lamina
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What sits below the osseous spiral lamina?
Nerve fibers of the auditory nerve
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What is the tunnel of corti?
The tunnel within the scala media what sits between the inner and outer phalangeal cells
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What are the cells lateral and medial to the tunnel of corti?
Inner phalangeal cell (medially) Outer " " (laterally)
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What is the cell type that sits above the tunnel of corti?
Inner hair cells
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What is the large structure that sits medially to the scala tympani and scala media?
Spiral ganglion
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Where is the stria vascularis located?
Lateral wall of the scala media
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What sits below the osseous spiral lamina?
Nerve fibers of the auditory nerve
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Where will the nuclei of the hair cells reside, relative to their supporting phalangeal cells?
Above them
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What are the inner and outer pillar cells?
The cells that sit in the corners of the tunnel of corti
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Where is the crista ampularris?
In the semicircular canals
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What is immediately deep to the cupula of the crita ampularris?
Hair cells
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Where is the macula found?
In the urticle or the saccule
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What are unique to the macula?
Otoliths
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Relaxing of the ciliary body does what to the lens?
Adds tension
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Contraction of the ciliary body does what to the lens?
Relaxes the lens
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The apical portion of muller cells produce what?
The outer limiting membrane
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The basal lamina of muller cells produce what?
The inner limiting membrane
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What is the muscle that is anterior to the pigmented epithelium?
Sphincter pupillae
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Where is the epithelial layer of cell in the lens?
On the anterior portion
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What type of epithelium is on the anterior portion of the lens?
Columnar if developing | Cuboidal if fully developed
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What is the type of epithelium that comprises the endothelium of the cornea?
Simple squamous
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What type of muscle does the ciliary body of the eye contain (smooth or skeletal)?
Smooth

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