Cells that remove and recycle bone matrix.
What are osteoclasts?
What are the nuclues and ribosome?
The functional unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
The three hormones associated with blood calcium ion homeostasis.
What are calcitonin, calicitrol, and PTH?
Deficiency or absence in production of this leads to a disorder known as albinism.
What is melanin?
Calcium ions are released here to later cause movement of the troponin/tropomyosin complex.
What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
When a molecule enters a cell via the proteins on its membrane.
What is facilitated diffusion?
Marked by the letter "D"
What is hyperpolarization?
Thermoregulation is a process of ______ feedback.
What is negative?
The increase of receptors, increasing a cell's sensitivity to a hormone.
What is up-regulation?
The hormone that stimulates epiphyseal plate activity.
What is Human Growth Hormone (HGH)?
A feature shared by the nucleus and mitochondria.
What is a double cell membrane?
The primary intracellular fluid cation.
What is K+?
The relationship between molecular weight and the rate of diffusion.
What is higher molecular weight = lower rate of diffusion?
The layer of the epidermis in which cell division occurs.
What is the stratum basale?
What is the primary function of synovial fluid?
To reduce friction between the articular cartilages of synovial joints during movement
This many chromosomes will be present in a newly produced haploid cell.
What is 23 chromosomes?
Oligodendrocytes belongs to while Schwann cells are in the .
What is the CNS and PNS?
The effect of calcitonin on blood calcium levels.
What is decreased blood calcium?
Increases water retention, thus reducing urine volume, and preventing dehydration
What is ADH (antidiuretic hormone)?
What is the role of tropomyosin in muscle contraction?
1) To block actin-active sites
2) To prevent myosin from continuing to slide up the actin filament
The construction of a functional polypeptide by using the information in an mRNA strand.
What is translation?
The neuroglia likely associated with hydrocephalus, a disease caused by an abnormal rise of CSF volume in the brain.
What are ependymal cells?
The tonicity of the cells in a hospital patient on an IV solution high in sodium chloride (NaCl).
What is hypotonic?
The 6 anterior pituitary hormones.
What are FSH, LH, TSH, ACTH, PRL, and GH?