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What are the four primary tissue types?
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All tissues consist of cellular and extracellular material..
What term(s) do we use to describes the
extracelluar material?
What might you see in the extracellular
material?
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Describe Epithelial Tissue:
Blood vessels?
Nerves?
Basement membrane?
Cell density?
Cell shape?
Arrangement?
Where does it come from?
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Epithelial Tissue:
Epithelial Tissue:
Epithelial Tissue:
In general terms, what is epithelial tissue
used for in the body?
Why is epithelial tissue arranged either
as simple or stratified?
How are epithelial cells “shaped”?
How are epithelial cells “ arranged”?
What are the two kinds of stratified
spuamous epithelia?
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What is the most adundant, widely distributed, and histologically variable of
the four primary tissues?
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What does “exfoliation” mean?
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Connective Tissue:
Connective Tissue:
Even though C.T. is variable, what do all
C.T. have in common?
List the funcitons of C.T.?
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Connective Tissue:
Connective Tissue:
Connective Tissue:
What type of cells are found in C.T.?
Because of it’s surface charge (negative),
what is the primary role of the glycosaminoglycan molecule?
Areolar C.T.
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Explain
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- C.T. Classification
- Relationship to epithelial cells
- Relationship to leukocytes
- Orientation of fibers
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Connective Tissue:
Connective Tissue:
Connective Tissue:
What type of fibers are found in the different type of C.T.?
Why might you say that proteoglycan
molecules “slow down the spread of
pathogens? Explain
What is the “general difference” between
loose and dense connective tissue?
What is the most abundant protein found
in the body?
What fiber types are white or yellow?
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What is histology
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Connective Tissue:
Connective Tissue:
What is the function of “adhesive glycoproteins”? (Hint: basal lamina)
What type of fibrous C.T. has its collagen
fibers very closely packed together and
aligned parallel to each other?
What structures are formed by this tissue?
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Connective Tissue:
Reticular C.T.
- Function
- Locations
- What fills space between cells?
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Connective Tissue:
What type of fibrous C.T. has its collagen fibers bundles running in seemingly
random directions?
What structures are formed by this tissue?
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Connective Tissue:
What tissue can be demonstrated by folding and releasing the external ear or by
palpating the tip of your nose?
What is the difference between a chondroblast and chondrocyte?
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Connective Tissue:
Is this tissue vascular or avascular?
How does this explain the relationship
between epithelium and areolar connective tissue?
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Connective Tissue:
What are the characteristics of the three
different forms of cartilage? What are reference structures for this tissue?
- hyaline cartilage
- elastic cartilage
- fibrocarilage
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Connective Tissue:
What are the three fiber types
found in connecive tissue?
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Connective Tissue:
Epithelium:
Connective Tissue:
What type of cell store triglycerides?
Why is this tissue described as being polar?
Explain
What does blood have in common with most C.T.?
What type of connective tissue support
these cells?
What are the two “colors” of fat? Explain
What does blood not have in
common with most C.T.?
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Muscle Tissue:
For most cells to grow normally, they must
be achored to each other and to the matrix.
The connections are call cell junctions.
Connective Tissue:
What is muscle tissue specialized to do?
What are the three formed elements of
blood?
What are the three type of cell junctions?
Explain
Where would you expect to see these junctions?
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Nervous Tissue:
What type of signaling does nervous tissue
use for communication? Explain
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Nervous Tissue:
What two cell types are found in nervous
tissue?
Where do we find nervous tissue in the
body?
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All cells have a membrane potential,
however. What two tissue types use their
membrane in unique ways and therefore are
described as excitable tissues?
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What is a gland?
What is the difference between a secretion
and an excretion?
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Muscle Tissue:
What is an endocrine gland?
What are the three type of muscle tissue?
What is an exocrine gland?
Define the three muscle types using these
terms:
- voluntary or involuntary
- striated or non-striated
- one nucleus or multi-nucleated.
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Where would you expect to
see a unicellular gland?
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How do merocrine glands release their
secretions?
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What are the two type of internal membranes?
Where would you find these membranes?
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What are the two type of secretions produced by glands?
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What type of gland is an apocrine gland?
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What is the structure of a mucus membrane?
Where do you find apocrne glands?
Where would you expect to find each
type of secretion?
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How do holocrine glands release their
secretions?
When do they start to produce their
secretions?
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What is the largest membrane of the
body?
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What is the structure of a serous
membrane?
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- hypertrophy
- necrosis
- atrophy
- apoptosis
- hyperplasia
- ischemia
- neoplasia
- infarction
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Epithelial cells form sheets that cover
surfaces. What is important about these
structures?
- metaplasia
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What is a stem cell?
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Do all mucous membranes secrete mucin?
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Describe the three steps of tissue repair:
What is the difference between an
embryonic stem cell and an adult
stem cell?
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After tissue is damaged, what are the
two possible mechanisms for tissue
repaired?
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What are the two forms of osseous tissue?
(how tissue is arranged or appears)
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What characteristics are used to distinguish between the three type of muscle
tissues?
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What is cartilage?
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What are the three forms of cartilage?
Where would you expect to see
each type?
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What two tissue types are excitable?
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What is the function of adipose tissue?
Why?
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What are the four main membrane type
in the human body?
What is the structure and function of
these membranes? (general distinguishing features)
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