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What are the two different types of epithelium?

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Covering/lining and glandular

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What is the basal lamina composed of?

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Glycoproteins secreted by epithelia cells

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What is the purpose of the basal lamina?

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It acts as a selective filter for molecules entering the epithelium from the connective tissue and acts as a scaffolding for migrating epithelial cells during wound repair

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What are the two components of the basement membrane and where do they originate?

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The basal lamina originating from the epithelial cells and the reticular lamina originating from the connective tissue

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What is the reticular lamina composed of?

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A fine network of collagen fibers

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What keeps epithelium as continuous sheets of cells?

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Tight junctions and desmosomes

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Where would you find simple cuboidal epithelium?

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The ducts and secretory portions of small glands, kidney tubules, ovary surface

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Where would you find simple squamous epithelium?

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Kidney glomeruli, air sacs of lungs, lining of the heart, serosae, blood vessels, and lymphatic vessels

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What are the main functions of simple squamous epithelium?

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Passage of materials in areas of low abrasion and high diffusion, secretes lubricating substances in the serosae

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What epithelial tissue type would you find in the endothelium and mesothelium?

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Simple squamous

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What two epithelial tissue types share the chief functions of secretion and absorption?

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Simple columnar and simple cuboidal

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Where would you find simple columnar epithelium in the body?

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Lining the digestive tract from stomach to rectum, gallbladder, excretory ducts of some glands, small bronchi, uterine tubes, some regions of the uterus

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Where would you find pseudostratified columnar epithelium?

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Lining the trachea and most of the upper respiratory tract (ciliated), and in sperm-carrying ducts and the ducts of large glands (nonciliated)

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Where would you find non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium?

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Forming the linings of the mouth, esophagus, and vagina

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Where would you find keratinized stratified squamous epithelium?

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Epidermis of the skin

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What two modifications of the digestive tract epithelium make it ideal for secretion and absorption?

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Microvilli, goblet cells

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Besides the digestive tract, where can goblet cells commonly be found?

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Within ciliated pseudostratified epithelia of the respiratory tract

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What epithelial tissue type is found in the pharynx, male urethra, the lining of some glandular ducts, and occurs at transition areas between two other types of epithelia?

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Stratified columnar

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Which layer of stratified columnar tissue is actually columnar?

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The apical layer

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What type of epithelial tissue is found in the mammary, salivary, and sweat glands and enhances their durability and structure?

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Stratified cuboidal

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How many layers does stratified cuboidal epithelia typically have?

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Two

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What is a gland?

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Epithelia that consists of one or more cells that make and secrete an aqueous fluid

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Where does an endocrine gland secrete its product?

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Into the blood

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Where does an exocrine gland excrete its product?

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Into a body cavity or onto the skin

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What is a type of unicellular gland?
Goblet cells
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What types of products do endocrine glands typically secrete?
Hormones
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Which type of gland has ducts?
Exocrine
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Where would you find individual hormone-producing cells (unicellular endocrine glands)? What is another name for them?
In the digestive tract and brain; the diffuse endocrine system
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What two organs are also exocrine glands?
Liver and pancreas
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What do all unicellular exocrine glands produce? What is it made of?
Mucin, a complex glycoprotein
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What are the two basic parts of multicellular exocrine glands?
An epithelium-lined duct and a secretory unit
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What is a merocrine gland? What are some examples?
A gland whose cells secrete products by exocytosis and are not altered by secretion in any way; pancreas, most sweat glands, salivary glands
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What is a holocrine gland? What is the only true example?
A gland that accumulates products within it until it ruptures; sebaceous gland
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What is an apocrine gland?
A gland that accumulates products just beneath its apical surface, then releases secretory granules and a small amount of cytoplasm.
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What are the five major functions of connective tissue?
1. Binding and support, 2. Protection, 3. Insulation, 4. Energy storage, 5. Transport
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What are the two subclasses of the connective tissue proper?
Loose and dense connective tissue
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Which class of connective tissue contains all three fiber types?
Connective tissue proper
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Which of the five major functions is the connective tissue proper responsible for?
Binding/support, protection, insulation, and energy storage
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What kind of cells would you find in the connective tissue proper?
Fibroblasts, fibrocytes, defense cells, and adipocytes
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Which of the five major functions is cartilage responsible for?
Binding/support, protection
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What are the three types of cartilage?
Hyaline, elastic, and fibrocartilage
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What kinds of fibers can be found in cartilage?
Mostly collagen, some elastic
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What class of connective tissue resists compression and functions to cushion and support body structures?
Cartilage
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What class of connective tissue resists both compression and tension, functions in support, and provides protection and energy storage?
Bone
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What type of fiber is found in osseous tissue?
Collagen
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What component of connective tissue is instrumental in allowing it to bear weight, withstand great tension, and endure trauma?
The extracellular matrix
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What are components of ground substance?
Interstitial fluid, cell adhesion proteins, and proteoglycans
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What ground substance component is responsible for the substance’s viscosity?
Glycosaminoglycans of the proteoglycans; chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronic acid
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What ground substance component serves mainly to allow cells to attach to the extracellular matrix?
Cell adhesion proteins
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What ground substance component consists of large amounts of fluid through which nutrients and other dissolved substances can diffuse between cells and capillaries?
Interstitial fluid
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What type of fiber provides high tensile strength due to cross-linking?
Collagen
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What type of fiber allows stretching and recoiling and is found where great flexibility is needed?
Elastic
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What type of fiber branches extensively, surrounds blood vessels and soft tissue organs, and is abundant in basement membranes?
Reticular
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What connective tissue type is most widely distributed in the body?
Areolar connective tissue
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Where is areolar connective tissue found?
In all mucous membranes as the lamina propria
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What are the functions of areolar connective tissue?
Supporting and binding other tissues, holding body fluids and provided a reservoir of water and salts, defending against infection, and storing nutrients as fat
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What cell types are found in areolar connective tissue?
Fibroblasts, macrophages, adipocytes, and mast cells
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What molecule is present in high concentration in the ground substance of areolar connective tissue, making it highly viscous?
Hyaluronic acid
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Although areolar connective tissue contains all three fiber types, which is the least abundant?
Collagen
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Which loose connective tissue is highly vascular, has great nutrient storing ability, and accounts for 18% of an average person’s body weight?
Adipose tissue
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What are the functions of adipose tissue?
Shock absorption, insulation, and energy storage
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Where is adipose tissue found?
In the subcutaneous tissue, around the kidneys, behind the eyeballs, in genetically-determined locations such as abdomen and hips, and around the heart and lymph nodes
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What does white adipose tissue do?
Stores nutrients
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What does brown adipose tissue do?
Generate heat from lipids
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What type of loose connective tissue has only one type of fiber, which forms a stroma that can support many free blood cells?
Reticular
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Where is reticular connective tissue found?
Only in the lymph nodes, spleen, and bone marrow.
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What type of dense connective tissue has closely-packed bundles of collagen fibers running in the same direction, parallel to the direction of pull?
Dense regular connective tissue
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What types of cells are found in dense regular connective tissue?
Fibroblasts
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What does dense regular connective tissue typically form?
Tendons, aponeuroses, and ligaments
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What is the difference between tendons and ligaments?
Tendons attach muscle to bone while ligaments bind bones together at joints and contain more elastic fibers.
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What are the flats sheetlike tendons that attach muscles to other muscles or to bones called?
Aponeuroses
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What type of dense connective tissue has bundles of collagen arranged in multiple directions and forms sheets in body areas where tension is exerted in different directions?
Dense irregular connective tissue
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Where is dense irregular connective tissue found?
In the skin as the dermis, in fibrous joint capsules, and as fibrous coverings that surround some organs
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What type of dense connective tissue is found in both ligaments and in the walls of large arteries?
Elastic
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What connective tissue class possesses qualities of both dense connective tissue and bone?
Cartilage
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What two notable things does cartilage lack?
Blood vessels and nerve fibers
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Where does cartilage get its nutrients from?
Blood vessels in the perichondrium
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What does the ground substance of collagen contain?
Large amounts of glycosaminoglycans and collagen fibers
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What allows cartilage to rebound after being compressed?
It is 80% water
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What type of cartilage is most abundant?
Hyaline
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Where is hyaline cartilage found?
The ends of long bones, the tip of the nose, connecting the rib to the sternum, supporting respiratory passages, and making up most of the embryonic skeleton
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What type of cartilage is found where strength and flexibility are needed?
Elastic
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Where is elastic cartilage found?
Epiglottis, external ear
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What type of cartilage is similar to dense regular connective tissue?
Fibrocartilage
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Where is fibrocartilage found?
Intervertebral discs; where strong support and ability to withstand heavy pressure is needed
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What makes osseus tissue harder and more rigid than cartilage?
Its matrix contains inorganic calcium salts
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What is the function of osteoblasts?
To form the organic portion of the extracellular matrix of bone tissue
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Where would you find osteocytes?
In the lacunae of bone tissue
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What are osteons?
Concentric rings of bony matrix surrounding central canals of blood vessels and nerves
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Why is blood classified as a connective tissue?
It develops from mesenchyme and consists of cells surrounded by nonliving fluid matrix.
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What are the elaborate networks of actin and myosin, responsible for movement and contraction, called?
Myofilaments
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What are the special junctions between myocardial cells called?
Intercalated discs
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How are myocardial cells linked together?
Via gap junctions and desmosomes at the intercalated discs
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What are the two major cell types of nervous tissue?
Neurons and supporting cells (neuroglia)
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Which neuron component receives a stimulus?
The dendrite
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Which neuron component transmits electrical impulses?
Axons
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What do the glial cells do?
Support, insulate, and protect neurons
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What are the two most common epithelia types in mucous membranes?
Stratified squamous and simple columnar
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What is the lamina propria?
A layer of areolar connective tissue that lies beneath all of the mucous membrane’s epithelial sheets.
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What are the moist membranes found in the closed ventral body cavities called?
Serous membranes
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What do serous membranes consist of?
Simple squamous epithelium (the mesothelium) resting on a thin layer of areolar connective tissue
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How do mesothelial cells lubricate the facing surfaces of the parietal and visceral layers?
The add hyaluronic acid to the fluid being filtered from the capillaries into their associated connective tissue
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What type of cartilage is a precursor to bone and is found in adult synovial joints?
Hyaline
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What is the central cavity of an osteon called?
The Haversian canal
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What two types of cells exhibit electrical excitability?
Neurons and muscle fibers
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What is the soma of a neuron?
The cell body, containing the organelles and having an afferent and efferent side
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What is the afferent side of a neuron?
The dendrites
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What is the efferent side of a neuron?
The axon
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Which part of the neuron conducts information to other cells?
The axon
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What is the axon made of?
Microfibrils and microtubules

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