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What is Cytology the study of?

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Structure and function of cells

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What is Histology the study of?

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Studies tissues and microscopic structure of organs

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What is Embryology the study of?

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Fetal development of vertebrates

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When was the first microscope made?

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1590

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Who created the first microscope?

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Hans Lippershey and Sacharias Jensen

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Who improved the first microscope and when?

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Galileo Galilei improved the 1st microscope in 1610

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Between 1611-1628, who made real prototype of the modern microscope?

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Christopher Scheiner

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Who examined the ‘cork’ using a similar microscope to Scheiner?

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Robert Hooke

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Who began to use the word ‘cell’?

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Robert Hooke

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What does the word ‘Histology’ split into?

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Histos (tissue) + logia (scientific research)

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Who proposed the term ‘Histology’ and when?

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Xavier Bichat (1771-1802)

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Who postulated cell theory?

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Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden

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What are cells the basic unit of?

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All life functions, exchange, movement, reactivity and continuity of information

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What is each cell derived of?

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Another cell

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What year the ‘cell nuclei’ was discovered and by whom?

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1825 - Jan Evangelista Purkyně

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What year the theory ‘every cell comes from a cell’ was discovered and by whom?

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1852 - Rudolf Virchow

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Latin sentence for ‘every cell comes from a cell’?

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‘Omnis cella e cullula’

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What year ‘nucleic acids’ were discovered and by whom?

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1869 - Friedrich Miescher

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What year ‘mitosis’ was discovered and by whom?

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1873 - Walther Flemming and Matthias Schleiden

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What year ‘chromosomes’ were discovered and by whom?

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1874 - Bugli and 1875 -Edouard Van Beneden

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What year ‘centrioles’ were discovered and by whom?

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1885 - Theodor Boveri

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What year the ‘internal reticulum’ was discovered and by whom?

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1886 - Camillo Golgi

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What year range ‘meiosis’ was discovered and by whom?

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1887-1889 - Edouard van Beneden and Theodor Boveri

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What year ‘mitochondria’ were discovered and by whom?

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1894 - Richard Altman and Carl Benda

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What year range 'proteins and amino acid organisation' were discovered and by whom?
1899-1908 - Emil Fisher
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What is cytochemistry?
The chemistry of living cells, especially as studied microscopically.
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What is Histochemistry?
The branch of science concerned with the identification and distribution of the chemical constituents of tissues by means of stains, indicators, and microscopy.
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What is Immunocytochemistry?
Technique that assesses presence of a specific protein/antigen in cells by use of a specific antibody, which binds to it, so allows visualisation and examination under a microscope.
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What is Immunohistochemistry?
Powerful microscopy-based technique for visualising cell components, e.g proteins/ other macromolecules in tissue samples.
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What is electron microscopy?
Technique to obtain high resolution images of biological and non-biological specimens. It's used in biomedical research to investigate the detailed structure of tissues, cells, organelles and macromolecular complexes.
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Compare cell and tissue culture?
Cell culture - cells are grown under lab conditions in vitro. Tissue culture - growing tissue by transferring them into an artificial environment in which they can continue and function.
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What are hybridisation techniques used for?
Detect particular sequences (target) within a complex mixture of DNA/RNA molecules. DNA/RNA are usually transferred and immobilised to nitrocellulose or, more commonly, to nylon membranes.
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What is considered development in science?
Accumulation of large amounts of scientific data
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What are tissues meant to do? List the specific functions.
Tissues are specialised to carry out different activities and specific physiological functions, e.g. Excitability, conductivity, contractility, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, respiration, growth and reproduction.
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What are the 4 tissue types?
Epithelial, connective, muscular and nervous
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Function of epithelial tissue?
Covers all free body surfaces + protective and secretory functions
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Function of connective tissue?
Penetrates all other tissue + supporting and protective function in organ construction
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Function of muscle tissue?
Highly specialised for contractility + role in body part movement
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Function of nerve tissue?
High specialisation of cells for conduction and contractility. Neurones connect the nervous system + body parts
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Features of light microscopy?
- Routine - Inverted - Phase contrast - Fluorescence - Polarised + dark field
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Features of electron microscopy?
- SEM - TEM - Fracture + Freeze etching
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Formula for Magnification?
Magnification = Eyepiece x Objective lens
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Describe the 'inverted' feature of the light microscope?
Light from top + objective lens at bottom. Very good for cell/tissue culture observations, including time lapse light microscopy of cells
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Describe the 'phase contrast' feature of the light microscope?
Based on theory that light alters in speed when passing cellular + extracellular structures with different refractive indices (density). Image looks darker than surrounding background
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Describe the 'fluorescence' feature of the light microscope?
Cell structures associated by means of histochemical/immunohistochemical technique with fluorescent dyes + observed microscopically with filters for a specific wave length
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Describe the 'polarising' feature of the light microscope?
- Uses polarised light and used to observe crystals. | - Limited biological uses as cells are fragile and might die. - Also mostly colourless.
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Describe the 'TEM' feature of the light microscope? [Transmission electron microscope]
Beam of electrons transmitted through ultra-thin specimen, interacting with specimen as it passes it
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Describe the 'SEM' feature of the light microscope? [Scanning electron microscope]
Beam of electrons scanned over specimen to make a magnified image of object. The electrons interact with atoms in sample, to make various signals that have information about the sample's surface topography + composition.
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Describe the 'freeze fracture' feature of the light microscope?
- Specimen frozen rapidly and cracked on a plane through tissue. - Fracture occurs along weak portions of the tissue such as membranes/organelle surfaces. - After cleaving, both surfaces are shadowed with platinum film. - This coating produces a replica of the surfaces.
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What can electron microscopes examine?
- Living cells/tissues - Thin material omentum/pleura - Biological fluids and their cells - Post-mortem tissue sample - Biopsy material (to prep a permanent histological slide)
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What are coagulative fixatives?
They remove water from tissues leading to coagulation and denaturalisation of proteins, mostly in the extracellular matrix, to fix material for light microscopy
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Examples of coagulative fixatives?
- HSI - Chromic acid - Matanol - Ethanol
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When precipitates coagulate, what happens to proteins?
Denaturation
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Are coagulative fixatives suitable for Electron microscopes?
NO
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Examples of non-coagulative fixatives?
- Formaldehyde | - Glutaraldehyde
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What do non-coagulative fixatives do?
Form inter and intramolecular changes of the solution from solution to gel.
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What does Formaldehyde do?
Quickly penetrates tissue but easily removed with a few washes
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What does Glutaraldehyde do?
- Slowly penetrates but permanently binds to proteins. - Cell membrane is partially permeable and osmotically active.
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What must be done before colouring slides? (staining)
- Paraffin (waxy solid) removed from tissues by performing rehydration - ^ As most usable dyes are soluble in water
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How to use the protocol Hematoxylin/Eosin stain?
- After rehydration, place in hematoxillin for 20-40 mins. - Lavage 1-5 mins (wash out of body cavity) - Differentiation in Ethanol containing 1% HCl for 5 sec (removes excess paint + stains nuclei) - Wash in water - Stain in Eosin solution for 10 min. Lavage again - Dehydrate + paraffin embedding
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How to prepare for EM (postfixation)?
- Osmium tetraoxide = secondary fixative, as it associates with lipids, since it's believed the unsaturated bonds of the FA are oxidised by it and materialized. - It is an electronically dense black substance, that strengthens + increases contrast of sample.

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