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Clinical Word Association (Blood)
- anisocytosis: size
- poikilocytosis: shape
- aplastic anemia: bone marrow destruction
- Hemolytic anemia: membrane defect
- hemmorhagic anemia: ulcer
- pernicious anemai: b12
- thalessemia: excess Hb
- sickle cell: glutamic acid > valine
- hereditary spherocytosis: hemolyse in spleen
- acute leukemia: overproduction of WBC
- chronic leukemia: nondestruction/accum of WBC
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Types of Hemophelia
- A- male- factor 8
- B- male- factor 9
- C- m &f- factor 11
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Prenatal Hemopoeisis
- initial- yolk sac
- middle- liver (some spleen)
- toward birth- exclusively bone marrow
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WBC %s
- neutrophils (70%)
- lymphocytes (30%)
- monocytes (5%)
- eosinophils (2%)
- basophils (.5%)
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Blood type named after...
the antigen the person posesses
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Clinical correlates (Bone)
- kartenger: dynein
- bollous pemphigoid: collagen 17 destruction @ BM
- atrophy: decreased size
- hypertrophy: increased size
- hyperplasia: increased #
- metaplasia: epithelial change (barrets, bronchitis, smoking)
- dysplasia: proliferation, no maturation
- neoiplasm: cancer (unregulated cell growth)
- carcinoma: epithelium tumor
- adenoma: gland tumor
- lipoma: fatty tumor
- EDS: alpha chains
- fibrosis: excessive scarring
- scurvy: vitamin C deficinet
- Marfans: fibrillin 1
- osteoarthritis: eburnation
- rickets: mineral defecit (Vit D in kids)
- osteopetrosis: osteblasts
- osteogenesis imperfecta: collagen I excess
- Osteoperosis: deficient GH or estrogen
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MAPs
- microtuble associating proteins
- dynein, kinesin, dynamin
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Clinnical Correlates (Muscles/Nerves/GI)
- duchenne: dystrophin (links actin to external lamina)
- mysthenia gravis: Ach receptor antibodies block receptors
- bronchial asthma: thick smooth muscle, remodelling of blood vessels
- multiple sclerosis: CNS demyelination
- Parkinsons: domapin, lewy body
- hiatus hernia: stomach through esophageal hiatus
- hirschprungs: congenital megacolon (neural crest cells)
- Caput medusa: portal hypertension
- hemorrhoids: anus
- emphysemia: destruction of elastic lung fubers
- Wislons disease: cu accumulation in eye, liver, brain
- Cirrhosis: irreversible liver fibrosis
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Eosin
- stains proteins pink
- acidophilc
- AE
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hematoxylin
- stains nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) blue
- basophillic
- HB
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PAS
stains carbohydrtes pink
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4 types of tissue
- nervous
- skeletal
- connective
- epithelial
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Epithelium of:
small intestines
collecting duct (kidneys)
trachea
- all simple
- -columnar
- cuboidal
- psuedostratified
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epidermis epithelium
stratified squamous, keratinized
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Where would you find stratified squamous nonkeratinized?
cervix, vagina, mucus membrane, esophagus
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Sweat glands are what type of epithelium?
stratified cuboidal
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transitional epithelium
- "umbrella cells"
- UT, testes
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difference between microvilli and sterocillia/villus?
- microvilli- short, separate
- stereocillia- branched
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Anome
9+2 microtubule arrangement
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Zonula Occludens
- Tight Jnx
- occludens/ claudins
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Zonula Adherens
- adherent jnx
- viniculin, actin
- cams (cell adhesion molecules)
- fascia adherens- cardiac intercalated disks
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Macula Adherens
- Desmosomes
- desmoplakins/cadherins
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Zonula Communicans
- Gap jnx (nexus)
- 6 connexins = connexonHe
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Hemidesmosomes
- @ basal lamina
- integrins , collagen 17
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components of basement membrane
basal lamina + reticular lamina
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basal lamina
regeneration guide
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Merocrine Gland
- merocrine- release in small vesicles w no loss of cytoplasm
- "merely"
- ex: goblet cells
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Apocrine gland
- release in large vessicles w slight loss of cytoplasm
- ex: prostate glands
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holocrine gland
- release vessicle and destroys entire cell
- ex: sebaceous hair follicle
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dysplasia
aplasia
metaplasia
neoplasia
- dysplasia: abnormal cell growth
- aplasia: no cell growth
- metaplasia: replacement of one tissue with another
- neoplasia: new growth (tumor, carcinoma etc)
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Stroma vs Parenchyma
- Stroma: surroundings, supportive
- Parenchyma: Performs cell function
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3 Basic Components of CT
- 1- tissue fluid
- 2- ground substance: GAGs, proteoglycan, glyiproteins
- 3- fibers: elastin, collagin, reticular
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Reticular Fibers (collagen type, where found, stain)
- collagen type III
- found in organs with large volume change
- agyrophilic, PAS positive
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What makes most of the components of CT?
fibroblasts
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unilocular vs multilocular cells
- unilocular: fat, white, single lipid drops, energy storage
- multilocular: small, brown, multiple lipid drops, heat production
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Characteristics of Plasma Cells
- clock face nuclei
- negative golgi
- (derive from B lympocytes)
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what does argyrophilic mean?
impregnation with silver salts and made visible w reducing agent
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Collagen Formation
- Preprocollagen: (nucleus)
- Procollagen: formed after translation, hydroxylation, glycosylation (RER)
- Tropocollagen: cleaves off the propeptides
- collagen: forms when lysl oxidase forms cross links b/w tropocollagen fibers
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Stains for elastic fibers?
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Locations of Type I, II, III collagen
- I: bones, skin
- II: hyalin = cartillage, notochord
- III: reticular = organs and blood vessels
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Dense Regular CT
- parallel collagen fibers
- tendons, cornea
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Elastic CT
ligamentum flavum, vocal ligaments, suspensory ligaments of penis
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Keloid
excess collagen promotes scar tissue to rise outside the wound boundary
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Lipoma vs Liposarcoma
- Lipoma: benign tumor in fatty tissue
- Liposarcoma: malignant tumor in fatty tissue
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Photoaging is due to mutation of...
elastic tissue
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Plasma vs serum
- plasma: contains clotting factor
- serum: no clotting factors
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Which blood cell has the longest lifespan?
lymphocyte
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Erythroblastosis Fetalis
Rh- mother, Rh+ child ---> anti D blood
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Diapedesis
movement of cells through endothelial/epithelial tissue
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# erythrocytes/microliter in males, females?
- males: 4.1-6 x 106
- females: 3.9-5.5 x 106
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Erythropoesis Stages
- proerythrblast
- basophilic e
- polychromatic e
- orthochromatic e
- reticulocyte
- erythrocyte
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Thrombopoesis Stages
- megakaryoblast
- megakaryocyte
- thrombus
- platelet
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"shift to the left"
- too many WBCs are produced, that RBCs dont have space to produce
- increase in neutrophilic metamyelocytes
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Vitamin k deficinecy
necessary for Koaggulation
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What causes malaria?
plasmodium infection (mosquitos)
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Alubumin
- protein synthesized in liver
- maintains COP to transport metabolites
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Gama globulin protein
comes from plasma cells to produce Igs
Gamma - Immunoglobbins
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Mesosome
membrane folding
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Picnosis
when DNA compacts to such a degree that it is not used (heterochromatin)
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Karyokinesis
nuclear division without cell division
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Cytokinesis
cell division
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Mitosis vs Meiosis
cell division vs cell reduction
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Longst phase of cell cycle?
Shortest?
- longest: G1 (G is tall)
- shortest: M1
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Hutchinson's Syndrome
- early aging
- unstable lamin A (part of nuclear envelope)
- telomere damage
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Rb
- retinoblastoma gene
- phosphorylated = inactive = cell cycle cannot be supressed (BAD!)
- phosphorylated via CDK4-Cyclin D
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p53
- in cancer cells p53 is mutated
- mutated p53 cannot innitate apoptosis of cancerous cells
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Acute Inflammatory Chemical Mediators
complimetnary C5a + Leukatrine B4
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Signs of Inflammation
- redness (rubor)
- heat (calor)
- pain (dolor)
- swelling (tumor)
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salpingitis
inflammation of fallopian tubes
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cellulitis
inflammation of subcutaneous tissue
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oponisation
when phagocytosis of an organism is promoted by coating of Igs
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Supportive/Purulent inflammation
- contains pus filled w neutrophils
- caused by pyogenic bacteria
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serous inflammation
- forms transudate- accumulation of fluid w low plasma protein content
- ex: burning skin
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Resolution
complete restoration of normal tissue structure anf function
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Predominant cells in acute vs chronic inflammation
- acute: neutrophils
- chronic: lymphocytes, macrophages, plasma cells
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Microtubules
- 9+2
- cilia, flagella, centrioles
- require MAP and tau proteins
- GTP - required for polymerization
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centrosome
majore MT organizing center
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Centrosome
- made up of 2 centriOLES at right angles from each other
- 9 triplets x 1
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Taxol
binds to MTto prevent depolymerization
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kinocilium
- 9+0
- hair cells in ear to detect balance
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Motor proteins of MT
- dynein- retrogred transport (toward cell body)
- kinesin- antereograde (away from cell body)
- myosin- use ATP to move along actin
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Intermediate Filaments
- fnx: maintain cell shape
- CYTOPLASMIC
- Keratin: epithelia
- Vimentin: CT, muscles, neuroglia [fmxs to attach nucleas to plasma membrane]
- --------Desmin: muscles
- -------Astroglial cells: glial fibrillar acidic protein (GFAP)
- neurofilaments: nerve cells
- NUCLEAR nuclear lamins (regulate transcription, attaches chromosome to nuclear envelope) - in all nucleated cells
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Cell crawling
- Psuedopodeum- protrusion of cell surface
- Lamillapodeum- membranous process during contraction
- Fillipodium- extends from lamillipodum to form focal adhesions
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Chaperones
- Heat shock proteins
- prevent peptide from folding until completley syntehsized
- repairs denatured proteins, or Ubqiuinates them
- mitochondrial chapperones: unfold the protein to get it into mitochondria, refolds it once inside
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proteasomes
trashcan for misfolded proteins, tagged by ubiquitin
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TPP II
proteoplasmic peptidase, follows the action of proteosome an make sure all Ub-tagged proteins are destroyed (and frees AA in the cytosol)
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Perichondrium
- supplies blood to cartillage
- outter cellular layer and
- chondrogenic layer: its inner cellular layer
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Fibrocartillage cartillage
- Type I cartillage
- NO perichondrium
- enthesis- site of attachment b/w ligament and tendon into bone
- pubic symphysis, IV disks, phalanges
- acidophilic
- parallel rows of chondrocytes
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Hyalin Cartillage
- Type II cartillage
- articular cartillage- only hyalin cartillage w/o perichondrium
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Elastic Cartillage
- Type II cartillage + elastic fibers
- pina, auditory tubules, epiglottis
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sarcoplasmic reticulum
reservoir for ionized Ca2+ ions in skeletal muscles
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What bands of the sarcomere shorten during contraction?
H & I
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Titin
large macromolecle (looks like a spring) that attaches b/w the Z line and myosin
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dystrophin
attaches Z line to sarcolemma
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Nebulin
regulates thin filament length during sarcomere assembly
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Where are T tubules in skeletal muscle? in cardiac?
- skeletal: @ AI Jnx
- cardiac: @ Z disk
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Triad
T tubule w 2 adjacent terminal cisternae
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geometric arrangement of muscle?
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- one thick filament surrounded by 6 thin filaments (hexagonal)
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Describe Conduction
- Nerve impulse picked up by sarcolemma and conducted via T tubules
- Terminal Cisternae release Ca2+ via voltage gated channels
- Ca2+ binds to troponin
- troponin alters tropomyosin and reveals myosin binding site on actin
- ATP on myosin is hydrolyzed and myosin binds to actin
- power stroke- when phosphate released
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Satellite cells
- in skeletal muscle
- responsible for growth, healing, and regeneration of skeletal muscle
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Type I Skeletal Muscle Fiber
- SO- slow oxidative
- red fibers
- slow contracting
- long lasting, fatique resistent
- high in mitochondria and myoglobin
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Type IIA Skeletal Muscle Fiber
- FOG- fast oxidative glycolytic
- intermediate
- adaptive - aerobic or anaerobic
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Type IIB Skeletal Muscle Fiber
- FG- fast glycolytic
- white fibers
- quick to fatique
- glycogen rich
- quick, sudden efforts
- anaerobic
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Type IIC Skeletal Muscle Fiber
- mixture of I + IA
- uncommon
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Cardiac Muscle Features
- central nucleus
- intercallated disks
- branching
- diad
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lipofuscin
buildup of old lysosomes
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caveola
permanent sarcolemma invaginations in smooth muscle (similar to T tubules)
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Radial Glial Guides
specialized supportive cells that help the nervous system to develop
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Nissl body
RER + ribosomes + ribonucleoproteins
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Multipolar neuron
1 axon, multiple dendrites (MOTOR)
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bipolar neuron
1 axon, 1 dendrite (INTERNEURON)
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Unipolar neuron
1 axon, cell body (SENSORY)
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microglia
phagocytic CNS cells
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Shwann vs Oligodendrocyte
- Shwann cells- PNS
- Oligodendrocytes- CNS
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Astrocytes
- Fibrous: in white matter between myelenated nerve fibers
- Protoplasmic: in gray matter , participates in metabolite exchange via blood supply for neurons
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Blood Brain Barrier
protects the CNS from fluctuating levels of electrolytes, hormones, and tissue metabolites circulating in the blood vessels
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hydrocephalus
enlargement of head due to decreased absorption yet constant production of CSF
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Ependymal cells
produce CSF
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Types of Synapses
- Electrical: gap junctions (ex: heart)
- Chemical: motor end plate
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Meninges
- Pia mater- collagen, elastin
- Arachnoid mater- fibrous
- Dura- dense fibro,elastic
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Choroid Plexus
- vascular structure that produces CSF and lined by ependymal cells
- found in 3rd and 4th ventricle of brian
- contains no BBB
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Tanycyte
type of ependymal cell that forms "endfeet" on blood vessels and attach to each other via tight jnxs
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Development of Myelin Sheath
- 1- axon enveloped by Shwann Cell
- 2- mesaxon forms- shwann cells make endge to edge contact as it wraps around
- 3- mesaxon continues to spiral and fuse forming and inner and outer mesaxon
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Division of Autonomic system
- conducts impulses to smooth, cardiac, and glandular muscles
- sympathetic: thoracolumbar outflow (norepeinephrine)
- parasympathetic: craniosacral (Ach)
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Guillian Barre Syndrome (Landry's Paralysis)
- PNS demylination
- ascending paralysis starting at feed radiating to trunk but does not cause nerve damage
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- aka Lou Gehrigs disease
- progressive loss of motor neurons
- results in muscular atrophy
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Parkinsons disease
loss of dopamine secreting cells and increase in glial cells
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myasthenia gravis
- affects neuromuscular jnx
- impairs transmission of nerve impulses
- autoimmune attack of Ach receptors
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Chondronectin
adhesive glycoprotein of in ECM
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Terretorial Matrix
surrounds lacunae, rich in proteoglycans
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Interterretorial Matrix
distant from chondrocytes, rich in collagen
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Isogenous group
clusters of chondrocytes
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Interstitial vs Appositional growth
- interstitial- outward growth (length)
- appositional= inward growth (width)
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Nucleus Pulposa
Type II (elastic) replaced with Type I (fibro) with aging
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Periosteum (2 layers)
- outter fibrous layer
- inner cellular layer: osteogenic layer
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What is inside lacunae?
osteoCYTEs
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Calcitonin
- tones down blood calcium
- stimulates osteoblasts to build bone
- receptors on osteoclasts
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Whats in Howship's lacunae?
osteoCLASTS
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Trabecular Bone
- aka spongy bone
- aka cancellous bone
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Volksman's canal
perpendicular to Haversian canals and serves to connect them
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Regions of a Long Bone
- Epiphysis
- Metaphysis
- Diaphysis
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Primary vs Secondary Bone
- Primary: immature osteoid
- --low mineral content
- --high osteocyte content
- --irregular collagen bundles
- Secondary: mature bone
- --high mineral content
- --parallel arrangement of collagen
- --osteocytes in lacunae
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Intramembranous ossificiation
- mesenchymal tissue > bone tissue
- just one primary ossification center
- ex: skull flatbones
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Endochondrial Ossification
- mesenchymal tissue > cartillage tissue> replaced by bone
- primary (diaphysis)
- ....and secondary (epiphhysis) ossification center
- ex: long/short bones
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Primary Ossification Process
- chondrocytes hypertrophy @ bone collar
- primary ossification center forms -- blood supply to center diaphysis
- perichondrium becomes periosteum
- bone collar forms
- chondrocytes die, leaving behind bone marrow space
- osteoblasts form bone matrix on cartillage model
- growth, thickening towards epiphysis, resporption towards diaphysis
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5 Cellular Zones of Epiphyseal Plate Growth
- Resting (reserve)
- proliferation (hyperplastic)
- hypertrophy (maturation)
- calcification
- ossification
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Osteoprotegrin
acts on PTH
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Arthritis
Gout
Rheumatoid arthritis
- arthritis- degredation of joints and articular cartillage
- gout- inflammation due to uric acid deposits in joints and soft tissue
- rheumatodi arthritis- synovitis
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acromegaly vs gigantisism
- acromegaly- overgrowth in adults
- gigantisism- overgrowth in kids
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Respiratory Epithelium
Pseudostratified Columnar w Cilia
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General Functions:
Simple cuboidal and columnar
squamous
- secretion/absorption
- protection/barrier
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Locations of stratified Squamous
- Oral cavity
- Vagina
- epidermis
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Locations of simplecolumnar
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carcinoma vs adenoma vs adenocarcinoma vs sarcoma
- carcinoma: neoplasia of epithelia
- adenoma: neoplasia of glands
- adenocarcinoma: neoplasia of gland originating from epithelia
- sarcoma: tumor of CT
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hemidesmosomes vs focal adhesions
- hemi: anchor intermediate filaments to BM
- focal adhesions: anchor actin to BM
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Where is stereocillia found?
- very long microvilli
- male reproductive system and inner ear
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Situs inversus
usually accompanies patients with Kartangers Syndrome
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Kinocilium
- 9+0 microtubules
- sensory transduction
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CT proper
- dense (regular/irregular)
- loose
- reticular
- elastic
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specialized CT
adipose, blood, bone, cartillage
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Connective tissue layers of muscle
- Epimysium: covers entire muscle
- Perimysium: covers muscle fascile
- Endomysium: convers muscle fiber
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Re-innervation Concept
If red fiber is denervated and you reinvervate it with a white fiber, it will become a white fiber
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Ratio of thin to thick filaments. Reason?
- thin to thick = 6:1
- hexagonal arrangememnt allows use of least # of filaments for maximum force output
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Which filaments shorten during sarcomere contraction? Which stay the same?
- H-only thick in middle , shortens
- I- only thin at edge, shortens
A- entire thick filament, stays the same
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Components of Intercallated Disk
- tight junction
- desmosomes
- basal lamina
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What are the striated muscles?
smooth and cardiac
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What are the multinucleated muscles?
skeletal
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What is the only organelle found in the axon?
mitochondria
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CNS vs PNS myelination
- CNS- oligodendrocyte - one cell myelinates many axons
- PNS- shwann cell- one cell myelinates single axon
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Difference b/w Dorsal and Autonomic Root ganglia?
- DRG: psuedounipolar (sensory)
- ARG: multipolar (motor)
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How many layers are in the Cerebral Cortex?
Where are the pyrimidal cells?
What are the regions?
- 6 layers
- pyramidal: 3 & 5
- 3 regions:
- --molecular :perkinje dendrites
- --perkinje: perkinje cells [FOUND IN CEREBELLUM]
- --granular: perkinje axons
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Components of BBB
- endothelium
- tight junctions
- basal lamina
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Wallerian Degeneration
degeneration of axon distal to site of injury
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Chromatolysis
loss of nissl substance from cell body
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Describe Loose Areolar CT
- lots of cells, lots of blood vessels
- fills in spaces b.w other tissues
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3 steps of inflammation:
- 1 Extravsion of Neutrophils:
- --histamine produces selectin receptors that bind to selectin on neutrophils
- --chemokines produce integrin receptors that slow down the neutrophils
- 2 transmigration: diapadesis of neutrophil via pseudopod
- 3 chemotaxis: follow chemical gradient to injury site
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last mitotic step of granulipoesis and 1st stage of secondary granules
eosinic myelocyte
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describe osteoclasts
- large
- multinucleated
- in Howships
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Lamins A B and C
- when A and C are phosphorylated, the nuclear membrane lamin network dissociatees to promote mitosis
- ---lamin B holds the fragments of this process
reassembles after mitosis via dephosphorylation
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Cyclin regulators of Cell Cycle
D, E, A , B
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CDK 1 and 2
- CDK1- activates proteins of mitosis
- CDK 2- activates proteins of S phase
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What are the tumor supressor proteins and where do they exist?
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Rb
- tumor supressor gene
- normally dephosphorylated (active state)
- represses transcribition by binding to E2F
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p53
- active when DNA is damaged...and causes p53 phosphorylation
- p53 stimulates CDK inhibitor p21
- cell either repairs or apoptosis
- cause of 50% of all cancers
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Necrosis vs Apoptosis
- Necrosis:
- pathological
- group of cells die
- membrane explosion
- neighboring cells can damage
- causing inflammation
- Apoptosis:
- physiological
- affects individual cells
- membrane blebs off (implosion)
- neighbors are not damaged (bc its imploded)
- no inflammation
- due to phosphatidylsering going from Pface oto Eface
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Acute Inflammation
- vascular dilation
- neutrophils adhere to endothelum (pavementing/margination)
- neutrophils move from vessels to tissues (chemotaxis)
- fluid accumulates in interstitium
- resolution - infection phagocytosed, pus
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Types of acute inflammation vs chronic inflammation
- acute: suppurative (purulent), serous, fibrous
- chronic: grunulomatous, ulcerative
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If you see a cell body in a slide...
- if it is unorganized that you are in the gray matter of spinal cord
- and presence of cell body eliminates white matter
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Identify PNS via...
- look for distinct CT capsules
- very round cell bodies surrounded by satellite cells
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What produces the peristaltic action of the Esophagus?
the myenteric (auerbach) plexus between inner circular and outter longtitunial muscularis externa
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Layers of organs
- Epithelium
- Lamina Propria
- Muscularis Mucosa
- submucosa
- muscularis externa (inner circular)
- muscularis externa (outter longtitudinal)
adventita
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Identify chief cells from parietal cells
- chief cells: very small and dark (look like platelets)
- parietal cells: look like fried eggs (lighter)
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Plicae Circularis
- in the duodenum
- extends to mucosa and submucosa
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Where are Panneth Cells found?
- Crypts of Leburkuhn (of intestines)
- not usually in duodenum but increases from jejunum to illeum
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Enteroendocrince Glands
- Hormone-secreting
- cells (endocrine function)
- Secretes
- CCK, secretin, gastric inhibitory peptide, vasoactive
- intestinal peptide, etc.
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Endocrine Pancreas
- alpha cells- glucagon- periphery
- beta cells- insulin- central
- delta cells- somatostatin-dispersed- controls alpha and beta
- pp cells (f cells)- pancreatic polypeptide
- g cells- gastrin
- c cells- immature islets
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exocrine pancreas
- secretes cck and secretin
- trypsinogen > trypsin [via enterokinase from duodenum]
- trypsin then cleaves the following:
- chymotrypsinogen
- procarboxypeptidase
- prophospholipase a2
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Liver fnxs
- producs albumin
- fat soluble vitamins ADEK
- produces bile
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Classic Liver lobule
- blood drainage to central vein
- hexagonal w central vein in center
- portal vein> sinusoids> central vein > hepatic eins
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Portal Lobule of liver
- bile secretion (exocrine)
- triangular
- central veins make apecies
- center = portal space
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Liver Acinus
- diamond/egg shaped?
- 2 central veins make the long axis
- 2 portal triads make short axis
- Zone 1 closest to triad (alcohol damage)
- zone 3 closest to central vein (necrosis)
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Space of Disse
b/w hepatocyte and enothelial sinus
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kupffer cells
macrophages of liver in sinusoids
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ito cells
- stellate cells of kupffer
- fat soluble storing cells
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pit cells
- natural killer cells- kills viruses and cancer cells
- in sinusoids
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space of mall
b/w portal triad and immediately surrounding hepatocytes
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cholelithiasis
gallstones from excessive cholesterol and indadequate bile slats
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Divisions of Circulatory System
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Weibel Palade Bodies
• Found in endothelial cells (EXCEPT CAPILLARIES!)
• Have Von Willebrand factor that binds Factor VIII
•Promotes Coagulation
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Elastic Artery
- tunica media: 40-70 layers of elastic fibers (THICK, type III collagen - reticulin)
- aorta, subclavian, corotid, brachiocephallic, common illiacs
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Muscular arteries
- aka medium arteries
- distinct EEL and IEL
- 8-40 layers of smooth muscle
- radial, ulnar, femoral, tibial (distributing arteries)
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Arterioles
- BP determinants (most resistance)
- 1-2 layers of smooth muscle
- meta arterioles- precapillary sphincters
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Capillaries
endothelium + basal lamina
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Continuous Capillaries
- aka somatic
- pericytes
- continuous basal lamina and tight junctionsMUSCLES LUNGS CNS BBB
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fenestrated capillaries
- aka visceral
- continuous basal lamina
- pores in endothelial wall with diaphragms
- kidneys, gut, choroid plexus [endocrine organs]
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Discontinuous
- Sinusoidal
- discontunous basal lamina and endothelial cells
- fenestrations with no diaphragms
- LIVER SPLEEN BONEMARROW
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Veins vs Arteries
- veins have thick adventitia
- arteries have thick media
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Pericardial layers
- visceral- serous
- parietal- fibrous
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Cardiac layers
- Endocardium- simple squamous, has subendothelial layer with purkinje fibers
- myocardium- heart muscles (thickness varies), intercalated disks, vascularized
- epicardium- single mesothelum on loose CT with white adipose
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What 2 cartillages cannot undergo appositional growth?
- appositional growth (width) requires perichondrium
- fibrocartillage and articular cartillage lack perichondrium
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1st sign bone lengthening is complete
zone of proliferation stops growing
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Cartillage vs CT
- Cartillage- avascular
- CT- has blood vessels
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How do you distinguish the Vena Cava?
it is the only structure that can have longtitudinal muscle in the tunica adventitia
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Which 3 vessels do not have the 3 tunics?
- arterioles
- capillaries
- post capillary venules
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Weibel Palade bodies
- induce clotting
- factor 8 (von willebrand factor)
- released upon vessel injury
- NOT IN CAPILLARIES!
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Why do Purkinje fibrers stain pale?
have less glycogen and myofibrils than rest
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Epicardium has a lot of ...?
adipose cells
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Blood flow
large elastic arteries > medium muscular arteries > small arteries > arterioles> capillaries> post capillary venules > small veins > medium veins > large muscular veins
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EM pictures are likely to be...
capillaries
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Pericyte
- Rouget cell
- on surface of cappilaries for support
- can differentiate if necessary
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post capillary venule
- looks like a tumor lollipop thing
- high endothelial venules
- allow WBCs to pass b.w cells and enter CT
- extend inwards
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Osmium Tetroxide stains...
- black
- myelin of peripheral nerves
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Van Gieson stain
elastic fiber brown stain
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DAVE
- dorsal afferent
- ventral efferent
ventral = alpha 1 motor neurons
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Vesicle Transport
- exocytosis - calcium dependent
- endocytosis- clathrin receptor dependent (specific)
- pinocytosis- actin dependent
- phagocytosis- non specific
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Spinal cord sulcus
on ventral side
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What do the differnt WBCs fight?
- neutrophils: bacteria
- lymphocytes: viruses
- eosinophils: parasites
- basophils: allergies
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