cytology
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tissue II
tissue III
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100

Type of chromatin that is loosely packed, lightly stained and found in metabolically active cells

What is euchromatin?

100

The domain of an epithelial cell that faces the basement membrane

What is the basal domain?

100

This type of collagen contains reticular FIBERS and is seen in lymphoid tissue

What is type 3 collagen?

100

Malignant melanoma derived from this cell type

What are melanocytes?

100

Common type of reversible cell injury

What is cell swelling?

200

Kinesin and dynein are motor proteins of this type of cytoskeleton

What are microtubules?

200

The type of cell junction is located apically and blocks paracellular pathways (forms tight junctions)

what are a zonula occludens?

200

Keratohyalin granules are found in this layer of the epidermis

What is stratum granulosum?

200

Smooth muscle found in integumentary system

What are arrector pili muscles?

200

A nuclear change in a dying or necrotic cell that is defined by fading or complete loss of chromatin within the nucleus

What is karyolysis?

300

All cells have this structure, composed of a 9+0 arrangement, except for neurons and RBCs

What are centrioles (basal bodies)?

300

This cell-to-matrix junction is made up by intermediate filaments and integrin

What are hemidesmosomes?

300

Dorsal root ganglia (DRG) (sensory) is this type of neuron

What is a pseudounipolar neuron?

300
The two muscle types with T-tubules

What is skeletal and cardiac muscle?

300

The leakage of what molecule leads to caspase activation and apoptosis

What is cytochrome C?

400

Cilia are composed of this arrangement, when errors in this arrangment occur it can greatly affect function of the cilia

What is the 9+2 arrangement?
400

The system we find pseudostratified columnar epithelial

What is the respiratory system?
400

Anterograde flow of axonal transport is from this structure and is associated with this motor protein.

What is the perikaryon? What is Kinesin?

400

This is needed for the myosin head to release from actin filament

What is ATP?

400

Steatosis is another name for this disease

What is fatty liver?

500

The location of intermediate filaments: lamin, vimentin and GFAP respectively. (BONUS) This glycoprotein only binds to type IV collagen.

what is nucleus, connective tissue and glial cells? What is LAMININ?

500

Sebaceous gland is to holocrine as goblet cell is to

What is merocrine?

500

This cell type of the CNS is found lining CSF filled cavities and ventricles

What are ependymal cells?
500

Unique feature of smooth muscle is this complex

What is the Ca2+-calmodulin complex?

500

The most important tumor suppressor, commonly mutated in cancers. "Guardian of the Genome".

What is p53?

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