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Whats the fluid inside thyroid tissue called

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Colloid

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Why are there white holes in the images of thyroid cells

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The lining epithelial cells are absorbing the colloid

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What do thyroid cells look like

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  1. Circles in 2D. Spheres in 3D

2. Lined by single layer if cuboidal/ columnar epithelial cells

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Type 1 of preparing tissue (5steps)

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  1. Preserved by fixing it in formalin, which is aqueous sol of FORMALDEHYDE
  2. Prevents tissue from rotting
  3. Embedded in parafin - involves extraction of H20 and other substances
  4. V thin slices (4um) made
  5. Mounted on microscope slides and stained
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Preparing tissue by producing smear is used for?

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Solids & fluids e.g. blood — seeing whole cells not slices

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How to examine hard tissue e.g. bone

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EITHER
Demineralise it to produce thin sections
OR
If want to see mineralised structure, grind it down to produce thick slice

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Most commonly used dye combination

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H&E - Haematoxylin and eosin

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What colour does Haematoxylin stain Nuclei and RNA and why?

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Blue bc acidic

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What colour does eosin stain cytoplasm and extracelullar fibres

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pink

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What doesn’t stain with H&E and therefore appears as white spaces

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Watery extracellular jelly

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What are the 2 things white spaces could be when stained with H&E

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GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN matrix
OR
Artefact - where tissues have failed apart slightly during processing

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What does PAS stain? and colour

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SUGARS MAGENTA eg goblet cells in small Intestine

and glycosaminoglycans in intestinal brush border

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What does VAN GIESON stain and colour

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Elastic ( which is difficult to detect with H&E) = wavy brownish bands

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ALCIAN BLUE stains what and colour

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Mucins - Blue

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Why are some cells small?

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Need to move around body to complete function e.g. Lymphocytes( 10um- v little cytoplasm n cell mem)

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example of large cell

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Motor neurone (cell body = 70-100um) but axon can be up to 1m

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Meaning of Fusiform and example

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Spindle shaped/ eliptical eg smooth muscle cells

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Meaning of squamous and example

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‘Thin plates” eg squamous epithelium which goes from polygonal cells to squamous as they mature

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Shape of erythrocytes

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Biconcave discs

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Shape of Thyroid cells

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cuboidal

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Shape of gallbladder cells

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Columnar

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Why are dormant cells smaller than metabolically active cells?

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Do not need to maintain elaborate cellular mechanical machinery in order to exist - only need small no. of mitochondria and ER

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Nucleoli function?

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DNA —> RNA in transcription

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What type of cell is more likely to have nucleoli

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Metabolically active

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Lifespan of cells in lining of gut
days
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Lifespan of erythrocytes
120 days
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Lifespan of cells skin
months
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Lifespan of connective tissue cells
months
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Lifespan of cells in bone
years
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Lifespan of cells in tendons
years
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Lifespan of cells in skeletal muscle
nearly whole life ( limited regeneration )
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Lifespan of cells in brain and nerves
life
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Lifespan of cells in cardiac muscle
life
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Lifespan of germ cells
life
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Dark chromatin
heterochromatin
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Lighter chromatin
euchchromatin
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size of nucleolus
1-3um
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What happens in outer mem of mitochondria
- lipid synthesis | - fatty acid metabolism
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What happens in inner membrane of mitochondria
- site of respiratory chain | - & atp prod
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What happens in matrix of mitochondria
Krebs cycle
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What happens in intermembrane space of mitochondria
Nucleotide phosphorylation | ADP -----> ATP
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RER function
site of protein synthesis
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SER function
- site of membrane lipid synthesis | - processes synthesised proteins
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Golgi apparatus function
- Processes macromolecules synthesised in ER
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In what cell is the golgi apparatus visible by light microscopy
Plasma Cell - seen as PERINUCLEAR HOFF (paler area)
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Characteristics of plasma cells?
- ECCENTRIC NUCLEUS ( located towards edge of cell) | - CLOCKFACE NUCLEUS ( prominent pattern of euchromatin and heterochromatin)
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What is a plasma cell?
Activated B-lymphocyte which produces antibodies
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cisFace of golgi apparatus
- Nuclear facing - Receives transport vesicles from SER - Phosphorylates some proteins
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Medial Golgi
- central part | - forms complex OLIGOSACCHARIDES by adding sugars to lipids and peptides
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Trans Golgi network
- proteolysis | - Sorts macromolecules into vesicles which bud from the surface
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2 types of cell surface derived vesicles
- PINOCYTOTIC | - PHAGOCYTOTIC
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5 Types of vesicle
- cell surface derived - ER derived - Golgi derived - lysosomes - peroxisomes
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peroxisome purpose
mem bound organelles containing enzymes which oxidise long chain fatty acids `
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Why lysosome dangerous?
Bc site of protein degradation
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How is cell protected from lysosome degradation
Separation between enzymes which lower pH and enzymes which degrade proteins at low pH = HYDROLASE vesicles fuse with ENDOSOMES == ENDOLYSOSOMES (which can do both) Endosomes - bare H+ -ATPase on them- pumps H+ in vesicle = lowers pH Hydrolase- contains enzymes which degrade at low pH
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Cytoskeleton function
- made of many filaments | - supports cell shape
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Smallest microfilament?
Actin
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what is actin and what does it do
- Globular G-actin polymerises into filamentous F-actin | - forms bracing mesh ( CELL CONTEX) on the inner surface of cell membrane
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What forms meshwork of microtubules when cells divide and why
TUBULIN - used to act as a scaffold for chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis - made of alpha and beta tubulin which arrange in groups of 13 to form hollow tubes
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Only cell tubulin isn't found in and why
erythrocytes bc they don't divide
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how many types of intermediate filaments are there
6 types of protein
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what do intermediate filaments do and how do they work
they're anchored to transmembrane proteins and spread tensile forces through tissues BUT Specific functions of diff types not known
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How do intermediate filaments have diagnostic utilities
bc with immunohistochemistry can stain diff cells for diff types of intermediate filaments ( IM) - and diff types of IM are found in diff cell types
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where cytokeratins found
epithelial cells
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where desmin found
Myocytes
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where glial fibrillary acidic protein found
astrocytic glial cells
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where neurofilament proteins found
neurones
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where nuclear laminin found
nuclei of all cells
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Where vimentin found
mesodermal cells
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Why is lipofuscin found
result of peroxidation of lipids in older cells (wear and tear pigment)
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where is lipofuscin found most commonly
hearts and livers of elderly
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What does lipofuscin look like
men-bound orange brown pigment
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where do lipids accumulate
non- membrane bound vacuoles
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why do lipids appear as white spaces in cells
bc dissolve in processing
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lipids normally found where
adipocytes (fat cells)
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lipids abnormally found where
hepadocytes (Liver cells )
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what is the only microscopy is glycogen seen in
electron - however are diseases where glycogen accumulates in cytoplasm of cells and become visible with light microscopy
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Why does glycogen appear as white spaces
- doesn't stain | - washes out during tissue processing
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Whats in interstitial fluid
- water - salts in solution - peptides & proteins - extracellular solid material like fibrillar proteins eg tendons and glycosaminoglycan jelly
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some tissues have inorganic salts as solids in them e.g....
calcium in bone
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types of epithelia tissue
- protection - absorbtion - secretion
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types of muscle tissue
- Skeletal - smooth - cardiac
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types of supporting tissues
- cartilage - bone - tendons - blood
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types of nerves
- brain - peripheral - visceral
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types of germ cells
- ova | - sperm

Histology Pracs (9 decks)

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