Cell Flashcards
(46 cards)
Hematoxylin is
a basic dye for acidic structures
Stains nuclei, ribosomes, roughER, DNA, RNA, keratohyalin granules, calcified material blue
Tissue preparation
- Fixate
- Dehydrate
- Clearing - immerse in ethanol
- Infiltrate - place in melted parrafin
- Embedding
- Trimming
Eosin is
an acidic dye for basic strcutres
STains proteins, cytoplasm, collagen, lewy bodies, mallory bodies pink
Periodic acid-Schiff reaction (PAS)
Stains specific cellular compartments and carbohydrates pink
PAS positive: mucins, glycogen, glycocalyx
Nucleu slooks blue or dark-purple
Masson’s trichrome
Used on connective tissue, cartilage, and collagen
Nucleus - black/brown
Keratin, muscle fibers - red
Cytoplasm - pink
Collagen & bone - blue or green
Do ribosomes have a membrane?
No
PS, PE, PI are all phospholipids located where
On the P-face, intracellular
Involved in coagulation, apoptosis, membrane trafficking, signaling
Phosphatidylcholine (PC) and Sphingomyelin (SPH) are where?
on the E-face
Involved in myelin sheath and signaling
Sphingomyelinase
Is on the P-face, but hydrolyzes sphingomyelin on the E-face
Lipid rafts contain high concentrations of
Cholestserol and glycosphingolipids
Importnace of lipid rafts
- Reduces membrane fluidity –> proteins in close proximity interact more efficiently
- Cell-adhesion
- Cell-cell signaling
Transmembrane proteins (receptors, ion channels) and Lipid-anchored proteins (GPI-linked proteins) are ___ proteins.
Integral proteins
Spectrin
Peripheral protein on the P-face that gives RBCs its concave shape by anchoring actin
the spectrin-actin complex is anchored to the cell membrane by ankyrin
What form of endocytosis (phago, pino, receptor-mediated) is clathrin-dependent?
Receptor-mediated endocytosis
What form of endocytosis (phago, pino, receptor-mediated) is actin-dependent?
Phagocytosis
Actin forms a pseudopod that forms a phagosome and engulfs the object –> matures into a lysosome
Juxtacrine signaling
signaling molecule is a cell membrane-bound protein that binds surface receptors of the targe tcell when the two cells make direct physical contact
Niemann-Pick Disease - what is it and what are the symptoms
Deficiency of sphingomyelinase on the P face –> sphingomyelin accumulates on the E face
- Jaundice
- Neurological damage
- Enlarged liver
- Large, fluffy white cells
- Abetaproteinemia –> spiky RBCs (acanthocytes)
Multiple sclerosis (caused by viral infection, treated w interferons) causes an increase in what?
Cytokines that activate sphingomyelinase
–> excessive degradation of myelin sheath (neurodegenerative)
Cystic fibrosis involves a defect in
Cl- channel
–> Cl- can’t leave the cell, so it pulls water in with it, thus engorging the cell to become thick and sticky
Cystinuria
Defective cystine carrier protein in the lumen of the renal proximal tubule –> cystine protein can’t enter the cell, so it leaves through the urine and causes kidney stones
Statins enhance endocytosis of LDL from the blood. Endocytosis of LDL differs from phagocytosis how?
It uses clathrin-coated pits because it’s a receptor mediated endocytosis
Primary cilia
Are on every cell; they are nonmotile; lack dynein; and don’t have a central microtubule pair (9+0 arrangement)
May act as receptors
What do you call the bridges linking microtubule pairs of an axoneme
Nexin
Note: Axoneme = 9+2
The most abundant protein in the cell cortex cross-linked with actin is
filamin
Important for actin’s role in cell-cell junctions