What are the 4 main tissue classes
Epithelial, nervous, connective, muscular
What are the cell shapes for this tissue?
Sqaumous, cuboidal, and columnar (all can either be simple or stratified)
Name one function of connective tissue
binding of organs, support, physical protection, immune protection, movement, storage, heat production, transport
What are the parts of neuron?
Cell body, axon, and dendrites
This muscle tissue is voluntary and striated.
What is skeletal muscle?
What are the two main components of a tissue?
Cells and a matrix
What type of cells secrete mucous in simple epithelial tissues?
Goblet cells
What are the three types of fibers that make up connective tissue?
collagenous, reticular, elastic
The ability of muscle to respond to a stimulus.
What is a sacromere?
What differs muscular and nervous tissue from epithelial and connective tissue?
They are excitable tissues
Since this tissue is avascular, where does it get the nutrients it needs?
From the underlying connective tissue that is always attached to the base of it.
What are the two types of dense tissue?
irregular/regular
the functional unit of contraction in a muscle fiber.
What is a sarcomere?
What is tissue matrix composed of?
Fibrous proteins and ground substance
What is special about pseudostratified columnar tissue? (Hint: It is something about how the cells are positioned!)
Not all of the cells reach the free surface, but all of the cells reach the basement membrane creating an optical illusion!
fat!
these structures in cardiac muscle allow cells to contract in unison.
What are intercalated discs?
Which celebrity has undergone treatments for Lupus, an autoimmune disease that attacks the body's healthy tissues?
a) Will Smith
b) Selena Gomez
c) Adele
Selena Gomez
This type of epithelial tissue is only found in acidic areas of the body, and contains umbrella cells that can be easily stretched.
Urothelium, or transitional epithelium tissue found in the urinary tract.
Name the three types of cartilage
hyaline, elastic, fibrocartilage
In smooth muscle, calcium binds to this protein instead of troponin.
What is calmodulin?