Mucous Membranes Flashcards
True or False?
The mucous membrane of the mouth is considered to be an organ because it consists of multiple types of tissues working together in harmony
TRUE
Name the 2 types of tissues that make up the oral mucous membrane
- Oral Epithelium
- Connective Tissue
What all makes up the connective tissue of the oral mucosa?
- Lamina Propria & ****sometimes a submucosa layer
- Blood vessels
- Minor salivary glands
- Ducts of both major and minor salivary glands
Type of tissue tht is embedded in the oral mucosa at the lingual and palatine tonsils
Lymphoid Tissue
What part of the oral mucosa serves at the protective barrier?
Epithelium
What part of the oral mucosa serves as anti-microbial protection?
- Lamina Propria’s Immune Cells
- Epithelial cells synthesize and secrete several antimicrobial molecules such as beta-defensins
TERM – cysteine-rich, cationic, bind to negative charges on bacterial membranes and permeabilize
Beta-Defensins
True or False?
The oral mucosa is highly innervated
TRUE
Which option is more capable of more types of sensations?
- Oral Mucosa
- Pulp/dentin & PDL
Oral Mucosa
Dentin and Pulp receive sensations of?
PAIN
The PDL receives sensations of _____ &_____?
Pain and Proprioception
The oral mucosa receives sensations of…
1.
2.
3.
4.
- Touch
- Pain
- Innocuous Thermal
- Taste
True or False
The oral mucosa varies by region but is consistent with 2 types of tissue:
- Epithelium
- Submucosa
FALSE
- Epithelium
- Connective Tissue
(Submucosa is not always present in the connective tissue layer) – Basal Lamina IS present
TERM – defines ALL oral epithelium
Stratified Squamous Epithelium
The deepest layers of the oral epithelium are responsible for _____ ______ while the superficial layers are mature and are sloughed off
Cell Division
Name another type of organ that has the same type of tissue as the oral mucosa?
Skin
Name the type of epithelium in blood vessels
Simple Squamous Epithelium
A fast epithelial turnover can be
Great for?
Bad for?
Great – speed healing
Bad – more vulnerable to conditions that affect cell division
Rank the following in order from fastest to slowest epithelial turnover rates
- taste buds
- cheek
- junctional epithelium
- gingiva
- gut
- skin
- Gut
- Junctional Epithelium
- Taste Buds
- Cheek
- Gingiva
- Skin
TERM – time is takes for the epithelium to entirely replace itself
Turnover Time
A faster turnover can be harmful for patients that under go __________ for cancer
Chemotherapy
True or False?
Effects of head/neck radiotherapy can lead to diffuse mucositis/ulcers
TRUE
TERM – most numerous cell type in the epithelium
Keratinocytes
Keratinocytes are named based off of a their expressed protein called ____
cytokeratin
True or False?
Most of the epithelial volume is occupied by cells
TRUE
True or False?
The oral epithelium only consists of keratinocytes
False!
Non-keratinocytes too!
Name the 3 types of non-keratinized cells of the oral epithelium
- Merkel Cells
- Melanocytes
- Langerhans
These 2 non-keratinized cell types are located in the _______ layer and which one produces a ‘halo’ cytoplasm?
1.
2.
- Merkel Cells
- Melanocytes – halo
Located in the basal layer
What type of non-keratinocytes have immune functions and are also considered to be dendritic cells?
Langerhans
You would be able to differentiate a Merkel cell from a Langerhans cell by atleast 3 characteristics:
1.
2.
3.
- Merkel Cell –NO halo
- Langerhan is more supra-basal compared to Merkel cells (and melanocytes) in the basal layer
- Langerhan cells have dendritic cell processes
How would you be able to distinguish a Langerhan cell from a Melanocyte?
LOCATION
- Melanocytes are @ the basal layer
What is responsible for the “halo” effect in non-keratinized epithelial cells?
Lack of cytokeratin – no staining of cytokeratin
Type of non-keratinocyte that contains melanin pigment packed in melanosomes
Melanocyte
Keratinized or Non Keratinized?
Alveolar Mucosa?
Gingiva?
Alveolar Mucosa? – Non-keratinized
Gingiva? – Keratinized
True or False
Keratinized and non-keratinized epithelium do not have distinctive clinical appearances
FALSE - they dooo
True or False?
Both Keratinized and non-keratinized epithelium contain keratinocytes that express cytokeratins
TRUE
Major function for cytokeratins?
Provide skeletal support when assembled into intermediate filaments
Types of Cytokeratinocytes (progression)
??
- Monomer
- Parallel Dimer
- Antiparallel Tetramer
- Intermediate Filament
Different sets of cytokeratins are expressed by
- Different ________ ________
- Different ______ _________
- Different Epithelial Layers
- Different Epithelial Tissues
TERM –
- not only do these provide mechanical support to cells…
- they are an intracellular component of desmosomes and hemidesmosomes
Cytokeratins
Name this clinical defect
- Mutations in cytokeratins 5/14 – basal layer
- Rare
- Blistering in response to minor trauma
- most severe in epidermis but can also have oral consequences
- Sensitive to the slight touches (toothbrush)
Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex (EB Simplex)