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What makes a cell specialized?

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since the DNA of all cells are the same:

  1. control of gene expression
  2. unique cell-specific transcriptomes and proteomes
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What are the essential factors for differentiation in cell?

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cell-cell communication
growth factors
ECM composition
cell location in differentiating embryo

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What are the 3 major pathways for cell differentiation in stem cell?

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  1. endoderm
  2. mesoderm
  3. ectoderm
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What is gastrulation?

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gives rise to primary germ, layers of endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm

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What do ectoderms give rise to?

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skin cells (integument/skin), neurons (nervous system), pigment cell (lens of eyes)

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What do mesoderms give rise to?

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cardiac muscle 
skeletal muscle
tubule cell of kidney 
red blood cell (circulatory system)
smooth muscle (excretory system)
(connective tissue)
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What do endoderms give rise to?

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lung cell (lining of digestive and respiratory tracts)
thyroid cell
pancreatic cell
(parts of liver)
(bladder)
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What is a tissue? What are the 4 major types?

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similar cells specialized to perform a certain function

  1. epithelial
  2. connective tissue
  3. muscle
  4. nervous
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Describe the histology of a mammary gland tissue.

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-columnar secretory epithelium

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What is the function of epithelial?

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  1. covers and protect body surface
  2. lines body cavities
  3. movement of substances
  4. glandular activity (secretory)
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Where is epithelial found?

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skin, linin of respiratory tract, digestive tract, urinary, glands of body

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What is the function of connective tissue?

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connect anchors, supports structure, transport, provides structural metabolic support

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Where is connective tissue found?

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bone, tendons, blood and fat

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What is connective tissue made of?

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polysaccharide matric, secreted and organized by cells in ECM (fibroblasts)

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How can general connective tissues be organized?

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loose or dense depending on the arrangement of fibres

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What is common to all connective tissue except for blood?

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They secrete ECM molecules like collagen to give support and form to structures

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What are specialized forms of ECM?

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tendons and cartilage

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What are the functions of the muscle?

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contract and generate force

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What is the function of a nervous tissue?

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initiate and transmit electrical impulse

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Where is nervous tissue found?

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brain, spinal cord and nerves

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What is an organ?

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made of different kinds of tissue to perform a special function

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What tissues make up the stomach?

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smooth muscle
epithelium
connective tissue
loose connective tissue
nervous tissue
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How can death occur considering homeostasis?

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can no longer be maintained.

disease is when it is disrupted.

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What happened when there is low glucose? How can the body maintain homeostasis?

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body slows glucose uptake and keep more in bloodstream, more glucose released by liver

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What do negative feedback control systems do?
- inhibitory - reset physiological variables - maintain homeostasis - more commone than positive feedback
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What are positive feedback control systems?
- stimulatory - amplify or reinforce change - tends to produce destabilizing effects that disrupt homeostasis - can bring to swift completion eg. uterine contractions to deliver baby or action potential/depolarization
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What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic control?
intrinsic: autoregulation within tissues or organs can involve chemical signals extrinsic: regulation from organ to organ - can involve nerve signals or endocrine signals (hormone)
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What are the 3 levels of control? and differentiate them.
extrinsic: an organ acting on another (nerve, endocrine) intracellular: cell effect on itself intrinsic: a cell acting on another cell
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What are fibroblasts?
cells that secrete matrix proteins
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What is ground substance?
matrix of loose connective tissue
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What are the different types of connective tissue?
Fibroblasts -loose: more ground than fibres, gel skin, organs under epithelia -dense/irregular: more fibres than ground muscle and nerve sheaths -dense, regular: more fibres than ground brown fat and white fat -adipose: very little Blood cells -blood: acqueous Chondroblasts -cartilage: firm but flexible, hyaluronic acid Osteoblasts and osteoclasts -bone: rigid due to calcium
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Where are dense connective tissues found?
tendons and ligament
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What are tendons?
attach muscle to bone
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What are ligaments?
attach bone to bone
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What are collagen fibres like in tendons?
densely backed in parallel bundles
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What are the two types of adipose connective tissue?
``` white (single lipid droplet) and brown (multiple lipid droplets) ``` Lipid droplets displace cytosol in adipose cells
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What is the blood connective tissue made of?
blood: plasma matrix and free blood cells
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Describe the two types of supporting connective tissues.
cartilage: light/flexible, trachea and ears bone: calcified, rigid
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Describe the physiology of the three different types of muscles.
Cardiac: - striated - intercalated disk - nucleus Skeletal: - striated - tappered - multinucleus Smooth: - not striated - single nucleus
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Which tissue has an extensive amount of matrix?
connective
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Which tissue has no blood supply and which other has no DIRECT blood supply?
1. connective | 2. epithelial
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Which tissue has microvilli, cilia?
epithelial
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What is the cell arrangement of epithelial?
variable layers, cells are either flattened, cuboidal or columnar
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How do cells get a function?
differentiation which is achieved via control of gene expression
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What does totipotent cell mean?
not yet differentiated
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What are adult stem cells called?
pluripotent cells | found in the bone marrow!
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Why stem cells important to medical therapies?
1. undifferenciated cells gives rise to any cell type2. highly proliferative: self renewing in large quantitiesd to rapir tissue damage
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How can we get stem cells? (tissues that are a perfect match to diseased individual)
1. cloning: harvest somatic cell, mature blastocyst, treat in vivo with chemical cocktail and diferntiate into appropriate cell type and transplant back danger: like cancer 2. adult bone marrow, testis stem cells but cannot make all cell/tissue types - forced pluripotent stem cells created by 4 TF (Oct3/4, SOX2, c-Myc and KIf4) 3. virus to deliver 4 genes into fibroblast cells from adult mice
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What are the 4 major structures of a cell?
plasma membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus and organelles
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Distinguish a plasma membrane from an organelle membrane.
Plasma: encloses cell organelle: sacs and canals made of same material as plasma membrane enclosing organelles like ER, Golgi etc. membrane structure is made of lipid bilayer of PL molecules, hydrophobic so water soluble/water do not pass easily
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What are the functions of membranes physiologically?
1. control transport in and ut 2. selectivity, receptivity and signalling (surface glycoproteins-immune system) 3. anchor cytoskeleton or ECM for movement/structure 4. cell signalling provides site for binding/catalysis
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What are the 2 types of surface glycoproteins? How does the immune system take action/identify each type?
self markers MHC: on surface human cells unique to the individual (this cell is "self" to immune system) self tolerance: ability of immune system to not attack our normal cells yet attack foreign cells non-self markers: molecules on surface of foreign or abnormal cells/particles acts as flags for immune system as "non-self"
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How is specificity given to a membrane protein (channel)?
shape of the molecule (can open or close_
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What happens to the protein channels regulation of osmolarity during dehydration or increased salt consumption?
- release ADH - ADH acts on distal tubule of kidney to increase water permeability - inserts aquaporins channels into cell membranes - water moves out of distal convoluted tubules of kidney by osmosis through ion channels thereby decreases osmolarity - overall effect is increased water reabsorption by kidney and decrease urine flow
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What are activities of an integral membrane protein?
bind to other integral membrane proteins to form cell cell conections, bind to ECM to give structure to tissues
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What are integrins an examples of?
structural adhesion protein - join cell to cell or cell to ECM - heterodimer of alpha and beta subunits - integral protein - wound healing, embryo attachment..
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How is pregnancy establishment proceed?
integrin alpha 6 is involved in the embryo attachment to the uterus (not alpha V beta 3)
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Cytosol vs. cytoplasm?
cytoplasm: gel with organelles suspended in cytosol cytosol: intracell fluid water
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What are the two major groups of organells?
membranous: specialized sacs or canals made of the cell membrane (Golgi, ER, plasma membrane, lysosome, proteasome) non membranous: microscopic filaments and other materials (cytoskeleton, ribosome, cilia, flagella, nucleolus)
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What is the structure of the ER?
present throughout the cytoplasm, extends rom the nucleus to the membrane circulates protein transport form nucleus to cytoplasm to cell surface
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What are the 2 types of ER?
smooth: no ribosome, synthesize lipid and carbohydrate, makes membrane, removes Ca+ stores-- muscle contraction and hormone production rough: ribosomes on surface, synthesize proteins, intracellular transportation (to Golgi) synthesized protein and movement through canals of the ER= fold and assemble into macmolecular groups
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What kind of protein does the ER synthesize?
for cell export or cell membrane

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