STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF TISSUES Flashcards
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What are the four types of human tissues?
- Muscle tissue
- Nervous tissue
- Epithelial tissue
- Connective tissue
What tissue generates the physical force to male the body structures move?
Muscle tissue
What tissue is arranged in bundles and are contractile cells that provide the ability to move the body in three dimensions?
Muscle tissue
What tissue detects changes inside/outside the body and initiates and transmits impulses that coordinate body activities and help maintain homeostasis?
Nervous tissue
The following is included in what tissue of the body?
- Skin
- Hair
- Nails
- Accessory structures
Epithelial tissue
What is the medical term for the skin and main portion of the integumentary system?
Epithelium
What covers the body surfaces; lines the body cavities, hollow organs and ducts (tubes); and forms glands?
Epithelial tissue
What protects and supports the body and its organs, binds organs together, stores energy together, and helps provide immunity?
Connective tissue
What provides contact or adhesion between neighboring cells or between a cell and extracellular matrix?
Cell junctions
What maintains a paracellular barrier of epithelia (barrier in between cells) and controls the transport of material or signals between cells (paracellular transport)?
Cell Junctions
What are dense in epithelial tissues because the tissue needs to maintain both strength and integrity in a wide variety of conditions?
Cell junctions
What kind of cell junctions form a barrier against water and antigens passing between individual epithelial cells?
Tight junctions
What kind of cell junctions are cell-cell adhesions continuously assembled and disassembled so cells can respond to changes in their microenvironment?
Adherens Junctions
What forms stable adhesive junctions between cells?
Desmosomes
What cell junction allows various molecules and electrical signals to pass freely between cells?
Gap junctions
What facilitates the stable adhesion of basal epithelial cells to the underlying basement membrane?
Hemidesmosomes
Epithelial tissue is broadly categorized into what?
- Covering and lining epithelium
2. Glandular epithelium
What form of epithelium has the following functions?
- Covers external surfaces of the body and some internal organs
- Lines body cavities, blood vessels, and ducts
- Lines interior of respiratory, GI, urinary and reproductive systems
- Integral part of sense organs for hearing, vision, and touch
Covering and lining epithelium
What form of epithelium is the secreting portion of the glands, such as sweat glands?
Glandular epithelium
Epithelial Tissue
What is the most superficial layer of cells?
Apical layer
Epithelial Tissue
What is the deepest layer of the cell?
Basal layer
What is the thin extracellular structure composed mostly of protein fibers that is located between the epithelium and underlying connective tissue layer; helps to bind and support the epithelium?
Basement membrane
What are the two ways of classifying epithelial tissue?
- Morphology
2. Stratification
What is the classification of epithelial cells based on shape?
Morphology