STEM CELLS AND CANCER

Which of the following is NOT a description of a pregnancy?
A. Invades surrounding tissues
B. Steals Glucose and Oxygen
C. Escapes Immune Surveillance
D. All are descriptions of a pregancy
E. Makes the host sick

What is the only type of muscle cell that proliferates?

T/F Cell Death is important to the life of an organism?
True False

Which of the following are we born with and last a lifetime?
A. stomach cells
B. colon cells
C. skin cells
D. oocytes
E. platelets

Why do we make more memmories if neurons last us a lifetime?

Which of the following does not describe apoptosis?
A. natural death
B. purposeful death
C. old age
D. programmed death
E. suicide

What causes inflammation?

Slow death, old age, natural or purposeful

Homicide, fast death, inflammation

What is this describing?
-Small blebs form; the structure of the nucleus changes
-The blebs fuse and become larger: no organelles located in the blebs
-The cell membrane ruptures and releases the cell's content the organelles are not functional

What is this describing?
-Small blebs form
-The nucleus begins to break apart, and the DNA breaks into small pieces. The organelles are also located in the bleb
-The cell breaks into several apoptotic bodies; the organelles are still functional

Each cell can develop into ANY cell type

Each cell can develop into a LIMITED selection of cell types

Where do the totipotent cells occur?

Inside our bone marrow what kind of stem cell creates ALL our blood cells?

When red blood cells die where will the new ones come from?

When white blood cells die, where will the new ones come from?

T/F Stem cells are pretty much IMMORTAL?
True False

When platelets get used up by clotting, where do the new platelets come from?

Which type of stem cell therapy does not require a close genetic match?
A. Blood Transplant
B. Cord blood
C. Bone marrow transplant

Name the 3 most common stem cell therapies for hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow