Epithelial Basics
This term means a group of similar cells working together to perform common functions.
What is tissue?
This word describes flat cells.
What is squamous?
Fibroblasts are the cells that produce these in connective tissue.
What are fibers?
Smooth, cardiac, and this are the three types of muscle tissue.
What is skeletal?
Rowan has this blistering skin disease, abbreviated EB.
What is epidermolysis bullosa?
Epithelial tissue attaches to underlying connective tissue at this structure.
What is the basement membrane?
A single layer of flat, thin cells that allows diffusion and filtration in lung air sacs and capillaries.
What is simple squamous?
Connective tissue cells are scattered within this material made of ground substance and fibers.
What is the matrix?
This muscle type is striated and under voluntary control.
What is skeletal muscle?
Mutations in this gene affect the protein collagen in Rowan’s skin.
What is COL7A1?
Because epithelial cells reproduce rapidly, this positive result occurs, along with scarring.
What is rapid healing?
Found in the digestive tract and uterus, this tissue has scattered goblet cells that secrete mucus.
What is simple columnar?
Tendons connect muscles to bones, while ligaments connect these.
What is bones to bones?
Smooth and cardiac muscle are both under this type of control.
What is involuntary?
This protein acts like the “glue” anchoring the epidermis to the dermis.
What is collagen?
Epithelial tissue is categorized by these two features of its cells.
What are the shape of the cells and the number of layers?
This stretchable epithelium blocks leaking and lines the urinary bladder.
What is transitional epithelium?
Cartilage cells go by this name.
What are chondrocytes?
Neurons transmit signals using these two structures.
What are axons and dendrites?
Blistering in the mouth and esophagus can lead many EB patients to need this feeding device.
What is a gastric feeding tube (G-tube)?
Skin is about 15% of body weight. This is how many pounds of skin a 100-pound girl has.
What is 15 pounds?
It looks stratified but is one layer with nuclei at different levels, and lines air passages with cilia.
What is pseudostratified columnar?
Students often forget that this circulating tissue is a type of connective tissue.
What is blood?
These are the support cells of nervous tissue.
What is neuroglia?
Collagen VII anchoring fibrils attach this structure to the dermal structures.
What is the basement membrane?