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10 Cards in this Set
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muscle fibers
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- in skeletal muscle
- long threadlike cells |
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myocytes
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- in cardiac and smooth muscle
- shorter cells |
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tight junction
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- cell-adhesion proteins
- no movement between cells |
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desmosome
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- cell-adhesion proteins don't touch the cell membrane
- anchored by plaque - movement between cells |
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gap junctions
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channel that allows passage of material from one cell to the other
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hemidesmosome
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- 1/2 desmosome
- links epithelium to the connective tissue below |
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exocrine gland
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- contact with the surface by way of DUCT
- secretions to the body surface - types: simple and compound |
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merocrine (eccrine) gland
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secretion by exocytosis
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holocrine gland
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secretion composed of disintegrated secretory cells - the whole cell does this
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endocrine gland
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- lose contact with surface and have NO DUCTS
- blood vessels grow into gland; becomes isolated - secretes hormones directly into the blood |
