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Epithelial Tissue
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Highly cellular
Tightly Packed No Blood Vessels Squamous, Cubodial, Columnar. Always attached to basement membrane. Classified according to shaoe & # of layers. Stratified or Simple. |
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Basement Membrane
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Non Cellular Adhesive Layer
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Simple Squamous Epithelium
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Thin, flat cells that lie on basement floor like floor tiles.
Found in: LUNGS, air sacs of lungs,lines blood vessels. * Under microscope look at the edge. Epihelial is frequently found as a lining. |
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Simple Cubodial Epithelium
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Cubelike or wedgelike cells.
For many of the major glands and glandular organs. Found in: KIDNEYS |
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Simple Columnar Epithelium
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Resembles tall columns. anchored at one end to basement membrane. Goblet cells are frequently found with them.
Found in: STOMACH |
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Simple Columnar Epithelium
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Resembles tall Columns.Anchored at one end of basement membrane.
Found In : Lining of uterine tubes. |
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Pseudo(False) Stratified Columnar Epithelium
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Appear as if it has several layers but all cells are attached to basement membrane. Nuclei are at different levels
Found in : Trachea |
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Stratified Epithelia
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Cells occur in layers on basement membrane.
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Stratified Squamous epithelia
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Multiple layers of squamous cells unattached from basement membrane.
may have cubodial cells at basement. Found in: Skin, Esoupagus, Vaginal Canal & Mouth. |
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Transitional Epithelium
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Has remarkable stretching capabilities.
Lines the ureter, urinary bladder, & proximal ureter. Allows bladder to expand as it fills. |
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Desomosomes
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Regions where cells are held together.
*Epithelial cells are held to the basement membrane by other structures . Cells are held together at |
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Tight Junctions
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Hold the cells even more closely together.
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Gap Junctions
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Connect one cell to another and allow ions and other solutes to pass from one cell to another.
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