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1
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Negative Feedback

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the response counteracts the stimulus

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Positive Feedback

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the response reinforces the stimulus, sending variable farther from the setpoint

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3 main body cavities

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Cranial Cavity
-	Brain
Thoracic Cavity
-	Lungs & Heart
Abdominopelvic Cavity
-	Gastrointestenal tract, liver, kidneys, spleen & female reproductive tract
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Extracellular Fluid ECF

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1/3 total body fluid
17 litres
-	Interstitial fluid 13 litres
-	Plasma 3 litres
-	Transcellular fluid 1 litre
Mostly Na+, Cl-
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Intracellular Fluid ICF

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2/3 total body fluid
25 litres
- fluid inside cells
Most K+

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Homeostasis

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To maintain nearly constant conditions in the internal environment

  • Bodily functions
  • Chemical compositions
  • ECF is often called the internal environment
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4 basic steps in feedback mechanism

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Stimulus -> Receptor -> Control Centre -> Effector

  1. Senses parameter using sensor/receptor (needs stimulus)
  2. Compares the parameter to the set-point (normal range of function)
  3. Output signal to control centre
  4. Output signal from control centre then activates the effector to bring the parameter closer to the set-point
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Four Main Cell types in the epidermis

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Keratinocytes, melanocytes, Intraepidermal macrophages, tactile epithelial cells (Merkel cells)

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Keratinization

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process in which newly formed keratinocytes push from the stratum basale toward the outer layer of the epidermis, more keratin is accumulated

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Keratinocytes

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  • 90% of epidermal cells
  • Produce keratin
  • Protect underlying tissues
  • Also produce lamellar granules (water repellent sealant function)
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Melanocytes

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  • Produce pigment melanin
  • Melanin granules protect keratinocytes
  • Suseptable to UV damage
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Intraepidermal Macrophage

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  • Immune cells

- Recognize invading microbes and destroy

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Tactile epithelial cell (Merkel Cells)

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  • function is to detect touch sensations
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Freckles

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accumulation of melanin in patches and so are age spots

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15
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Mole

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benign localization overgrowth of melanocytes

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Albinism

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a condition that the melanocytes of an individual fail to produce melanin

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17
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Vitiligo

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(skin with irregular white spots) is a condition that an individual with partial or complete loss of melanocytes from patches of skin

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18
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Two types of skin wound healing

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epidermal & deep wounds

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19
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Four phases of deep wound healing

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  1. Inflammatory Phase
  2. Migratory Phase
  3. Proliferative Phase
  4. Maturation Phase
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Inflammatory Phase

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  • Blood clot

- elimination of microbes

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Migratory Phase

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  • Clot becomes a scab
  • 2-3 days after, fibroblasts migrate to injury
  • Fibroblasts produce structural molecules (scar tissue)
  • Angiogenesis (regrow of blood vessels
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Proliferative Phase

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  • Extensive growth of epithelial cells beneath scab
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Maturation Phase

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  • Degration of the scab

- Epidermis thickness restored to normal thickness

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24
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Integral membrane proteins

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Tightly attached to the membrane

  • Lipid anchored proteins
  • Transmembrane proteins (channel)
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Peripheral membrane proteins

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Loosely attached to the membrane (by the polar head or other proteins)

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Vesicular Transport

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For macromolecules that are too large for protein mediated transport (channel) systems

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Epithelial Transport

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moving substances across 2 membranes

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Apical Membrane

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Surface of the singing facing the lumen of an organ

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Basolateral Membrane

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Surface of the lining facing the extracellular fluid

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Paracellular Transport

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Through junctions between adjacent cells

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Transcellular Transport

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Through both the apical and basolateral membrane with the help of carrier proteins (channels) or by means of transcytosis

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Transcytosis

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Combination of endocytosis, vesicular transport across the cytoplasmic space and exocytosis
Allow the transport of macromolecules, remain intact.

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Depolarization

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Membrane potential becomes less -ve than the resting membrane potential

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Repolarization 

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Membrane potential return back to

the resting membrane potential

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Hyperpolarization 

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Membrane potential becomes more –ve than the resting membrane potential

36
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On Occasion Our Trusty Truck Acts Funny Very Good Vehicle Anyway

A

Mnemonic for 12 cranial nerves

37
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Some Say Marry Money. But My Brother Says Big Brains Matter More

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Mnemonic for remembering which 12 cranial nerves are Sensory, Motor or Both

38
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Dendrites

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Are thin branches (processes) of a neuron that receive incoming information from neighboring cell

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Axon

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transmit electrical signals from the soma of a neuron to its presynaptic axon terminals where information is transformed from electrical to chemical and passes onto the neighboring cells

40
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Axonal Transport

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transporting vesicles and mitochondria, produced by the nucleus within the soma, to the axon terminal and return the synaptic vesicle from the axon terminal back to soma for recycling

41
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Astrocytes

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(CNS)
Provide neutrons with substrate for ATP production
Maintaining an appropriate environment for the generation of nerve impulses

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Oligodendrocytes

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Myelin forming glial cells in CNS

43
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Microglia

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Function as phagocytes and remove cellular debris (CNS)

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Ependymal cells

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(CNS) Lining of the ventricular system of the brain and central canal of the spinal cord.

45
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Satellite cells

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(PNS) Form supportive capsules around the cell bodies of the neurons in PNS which is known as ganglion
- Regulate the exchanges of materials between soma and interstitial fluid

46
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Ganglion

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a cluster of nerve cell (mainly soma and dendrites) appear as a swelling structure along a nerve

47
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Schwann Cells

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(PNS) Form Myelin sheath around axons

* A single PNS axon may have as manny as 500 different Schwann cells along its length

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Myelination

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Myelin sheath insulates the axon of a neuron

- Increases speed and fidelity of nerve conduction

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Synapse

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The region where an axon terminal communicates with its postsynaptic target cell

50
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Electrical synapse

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Structural connection known as gap junction that forms a conductive link containing connexon channels

  • Each gap junction contains hundred or so connexions
  • Low electrical resistance for minimal delay
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Chemical Synapse

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Use neurotransmitters to provide electrical continuity between adjacent cellsMajority of the neural synapses are the chemical synapses

52
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Neurocrine

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Chemical signal in a form of neurotransmitter secreted by the neutron

53
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Ganglia

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Groups of neuronal cell bodies outside the CNS

54
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Plexuses

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Branching network of axons outside the CNS

55
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Dorsal root

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carries sensory (afferent) information to CNS

IN

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Ventral root

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carries motor (efferent) information to muscles and glands

OUT

57
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Spinal Cord white matter

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Can be divided into columns which are the tracts of axons that transfer info up and down the spinal cord

58
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Ascending tracts

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carry info up to the brain

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Descending tracts

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carry mostly efferent (motor) info from the brain to the spinal cord

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