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The name of a strand of mRNA studded with ribosomes is . . .
polysome
What is the term for a lysosome that has completed digestion but retains junk?
Residual body
What organelles contain DNA?
Mitochondria and nucleus
What organelle produces ATP?
Mitochondria
What organelle is responsible for the assembly of ribosomes?
Nucleolus
What surface specialization increases surface area at the apex of the cell at the Bottom?
Basal Infoldings
What surface specialization increases surface area at the apex of the cell?
Microvilli
What surface specialization moves material along the cell's apical surface?
Cilia
What has 9 microtubular doublets around a central pair?
Axoneme
Who gets an axoneme?
Cilia and Flagella
What has 9 microtubular triplets around hollow center?
Centriole and Basal Body
Membranous organelle that makes lipids and detoxifies the cell?
Smooth ER
The membranous organelle of protein synthesis is......
Rough ER
Dark, granular, basophilic material found in neuron cell bodies and dendrites is called ….
Nissl
The primary producer of CSF (cerebral spinal fluid) is the …
Choroid Plexus
The cell responsible for the formation of myelin in the peripheral nervous system is …
Schwann cell
Which type of axonal transport moves material from the terminal to the cell body?
Retrograde
Which parts of neurons are specialized for conduction of electrical impulse?
Axons
Which of the following are phases of neuronal degeneration?
Proximal & Distal
Oligodendricytes are a type of …
Macroglia
Which of the following neurons are pseudounipolar?
Sensory
What kind of neuronal degeneration occurs between damage and cell body?
Proximal
What are the 3 meningeal layers from superficial to deep?
Dura, Arachnoid, Pia
What cell produces myelin in the CNS?
Oligodenrocyte
What do we call a collection of neuron cell bodies in the PNS?
Ganglion
What do we call a collection of neuron cell bodies in the CNS?
Nucleus
What muscle that occurs in the walls of hollow tubes and engages in rhythmic and tonic contraction?
Visceral(unitary)
What cardiac muscle fiber has smaller diameter, few terminal cisternae & secretes atrial natriuretic peptide?
ATRIAL
Which muscle type has the ability to regenerate?
Smooth Muscle
What protein molecule blocks the binding site on actin for myosin?
Tropomyosin
What is the connective tissue layer that surrounds each muscle fiber?
Endomysium
Which region of the cell membrane in striated muscle which carries the depolarization?
T-Tubules
Actin and myosin can both be found in what band?
A-band
Conduction fibers include all of these?
SA node, AV node, Bundle of HIS, Purkinje Fibers
What type of striated muscle has centrally located nuclei?
Cardiac
What do we call a single nerve fiber and all of the muscle fibers it innervates?
Motor unit
What skeletal muscle fibers have small diameter much myoglobin, many mitochondria, little glycogen?
Slow, Red fibers
What do we call the spot where the motor nerve pierces through the epimysium?
Motor point
What muscle type has peripheral nuclei and is a true structural syncytium?
Skeletal
Name a unicellular exocrine gland?
goblet cell
Name a unicellular endocrine gland?
Enteroendocrine cell
What epithelium has a domed apex & can be stretched and distended?
Transitional
What junctional complex keeps cells from being pulled apart?
Adherens/Desmosome
What epithelial type is characterized by thin cytoplasm, flattened ovoid nuclei, and is wider than it is tall?
Squamous
What kind of exocrine secretion is characterized by only the cell's product being secreted?
Merocrine
What type of cellular junctional complex enables ion transport?
GAP or NEXUS
What type of cells release their product to neighboring cells to influence their function?
PARACRINE
Al l of the following are surface specializations except:
(cilia, flagella, micro villi, stereo cillia, keratin)
What criteria are used for classifying epithelial tissues?
(shape at surface, # layers, surface specializations)
What type of gland discharges its secretory products directly into the bloodstream?
Endocrine glands
A secretory process in which the entire cell becomes part of the secretory product is known as?
Holocrine
Name the specilized epithelium that lines the urinary tract …
Transitional
Name the manner of secretion in which sebaceous glands secrete ...
Holocrine
Which of the following describes epithelial tissue?
Many close similar cells, Polarization, Avascular
What type of bone is arranged in spicules and trabeculae?
Cancellous /Spongy
Which type of collagen is made by chondroblasts in cartilage?
TYPE II
What cell type is responsible for making glycoproteins, GAGs?
FIBROBLASTS
These cells are responsible for the production of all of the connective tissue fiber types are ….
FIBROBLASTS
What glycoprotein binds cells to their extracellular matrix?
INTEGRINS
Name the connective tissue which contains macrophages, plasma cells, lymphoid cells and is found beneath epithelium?
Lamina Propia
What are the 3 components of connective tissue?
Extra Cellular Matrix, CELLS, FIBERS
What type of collagen makes up reticular fibers?
TYPE III
What type of cells contain granules of heparin, histamine and serotonin?
MAST CELLS & BASOPHILS
Periosteum is attached to bone by:
Sharpey's Fibers
Which of the following cells secrete Osteoid?
Osteoblasts
Which type of connective tissue, cells are important in wound healing due to generative capacity?
Mesenchymal Cells
Bone growth is always:
Appositional
Bone made up of an irregular arrangement of spicules and trabeculae is:
Spongy Bone
Cells seen in high concentrations in infants that generate heat due to their numerous mitochondria are ...
Brown Fat
Which of the following can form a "stroma" and are used as the fine support for lymphoid tissue...
Reticular Fibers
Which type of Adipose is absent in adults, yet present in both newborns and mammals during hibernation?
Brown Fat
This Dense Regular connective tissue structure holds muscle to bone.
Tendon
What type of collagen fiber is found in cartilage?
Type II
What can be found between dense regular connective tissue and hyaline cartilage?
Fibrocartilage
Fibronectin, chondonectin, laminin and integrins are?
Glycoproteins
What blood cell is intensely phagocytic?
neutrophil
Which of the 4 primary tissue types does blood belong to?
Connective tissue
What leukocyte has a multilobulated (3-5 lobules) nucleus?
Neutrophil
What leukocyte has no granules and has a large, eccentrically placed, reniform nucleus?
Monocyte
What type of Connective tissue forms the periosteum, perichondrium & capsules around most organs?
Dense irregular
What cell makes bony matrix (osteoid)?
Osteoblast
What vessels connect the marrow cavity to the vessels in the periosteum?
Volkman's
What bone cell is a part of the mononuclear phagocytic system and digests bone?
Osteoclast
What type of bone growth replaces pre-existing cartilage?
Endochondral ossification
What connective tissue fiber is strong and flexible but does not stretch & is white in fresh tissue?
Collagen
Name the Glycose Aminoglycans (GAGs) ….
Hyalonrinic acid, Dermatan S04, keratin S04, heparin S04, Chondroitin S04
What is the outermost layer of longitudinal connective tissue in vasculature?
Tunica adventitia
What vessle is yellow in fresh tissue, has elastic fibers, & functions in absorbing pulsation of blood?
Elastic arteries
In which vessels would you see a prominent internal elastic lamina?
Muscular Arteries.
What causes T - lymphocytes to enter lymph nodes from the vasculature?
High Endothelial Venules
In which tunic is the vasa vasorum found?
Tunica adventitia
What vasculature gets valves?
Heart, Veins and Lymphatics
What vessels collect tissue fluid and return it to the veins?
Lymphatic vessels
What capillary type has tiny openings in the wall with one-way flaps of membrane covering them?
Fenestrated