Cardiovascular - Wet Room 5

Question 1

What are the layers of the vessels from the lumen out?

Answer 1

Tunica intima
Tunica media
Tunica adventitia

Question 2

What is the tunica intima made of?

Answer 2

Simple squamous epithelium

Question 3

What is the T media made of?

Answer 3

Smooth muscle

Elastic tissue

Question 4

What is the t.adventitia made of?

Answer 4

Fibrous CT

Question 5

What are the 3 types of arteries?

Answer 5

Muscular
Elastic
Arterioles

Question 6

How to spot a muscular artery on histology?

Answer 6

Elastic fibres are found just under the interior elastic lumina IEL and the outer elastic lumina - OEL

Question 7

How to tell an elastic artery?

Answer 7

Lots of blue elastic fibres

Question 8

How to tell an arteriole?

Answer 8

No T.adventitia

Question 9

Look at page 89 of booklet to see the artery histology`

Answer 9

Ok

Question 10

If an artery is conducting - will it be elastic or muscular? Give an example of a conduction artery

Answer 10

Aorta/Pulmonary trunk - conduction and elastic

Question 11

If its a distrubuting artery - will it be elastic of muscular? Name a distro artery.

Answer 11

Radial/femorals - distro and muscular

Question 12

What tissue predominates in the T.media of arterioles?

Answer 12

CT

Question 13

What will cardiac muscle look like on histology?

Answer 13

Striated with intercalated disks

Question 14

What will skeletal muscle look like on histology?

Answer 14

Vertical striations with nuclei dotted about and NO IC disks

Question 15

What will smooth muscle look like on histology?

Answer 15

No striations - wavy like - nuclei dotted about