Physiology Flashcards
What is the largest organ in the body?
Skin
What is the outermost layer of skin called?
Epidermis
Which type of epithelium makes up epidermis?
Stratified squamous epithelium
Which layer of skin is deep to epidermis?
Dermis
Which tissue type makes up dermis?
Connective tissue
Which germ layer forms epidermis?
Ectoderm (forms periderm)
Which germ layer forms dermis?
Mesoderm
In foetal skin development, which layers are formed after 16 weeks?
Keratin layer + granular layer
Prickle cell layer
Basal layer
Dermis
Which cell makes up 95% of epidermis?
Keratinocytes
The basal layer of skin is highly metabolically active. True/False?
True
Lots of intermediate filaments
Name 3 other epidermal cells (other than keratinocytes)
Melanocytes
Langerhans cells
Merkel cells
Where do melanocytes derive from?
Neuronal cell crest
What are melanocytes? Which layer of skin are they found?
Pigment-producing dendtritic cells
Basal layer
What do melanocytes do?
Convert tyrosine to melanin pigment and load colour onto adjacent keratinocytes
Eumelanin is brown/red
Brown
Phaeomelanin is brown/red
Red