Lecture 6.8: Cellular adaptations

Question 1

True or false? Onset of puberty results in vagina to go from simple columnar to stratified squamous epithelium.

Answer 1

True.

Question 2

In concentric and eccentric hypertrophy, how do the myocytes grow?

Answer 2

Parallel in concentric, series in eccentric. Can also get binucleated myocytes, increased connective tissue.

Can also find collagen in between walls.