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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Practice Q's Sorry its soo long

Hey Guys,
Here's some practice Q's for the 3 "more important" lectures. Hope this helps! GL

Connective tissue Lecture

Functions of Connective Tissue
4 Types of Connective Tissue
What is the most abundant connective tissue cell
What cell is found in umbilical cords?
What is ECM composed of?
What 3 protein fibers are found in ECM? Describe them.
Ten types of Collagen
What 3 classes of molecules are found in ground substance? Describe.
Why do GAG’s hold water?
What are the 2 types of Embryonic Connective tissue?
What is Wharton’s Jelly?
What scattered cells are found in loose connective tissue?
How can you distinguish mast cells from other cells?
Which fibers stain well with silver?
Describe Reticular, Elastic, Dense Regular and Irregular Connective Tissue
What is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome?
Describe the 2 types of specialized tissue
Where is hematopoeitic tissue found?
How do you distingues Unilocular adipose tissue from Multilocular?
What is the benefit of Multilocular adipose in infants?
Describe Cartilage
This cartilage coves the ends of bones at all movable joints. It is associates with type II collagen fibers
This cartilage provides flexible, resilient, support
This cartilage has less chondrocytes. It resists compression and absorbs shock
Distinguish between Compact and Spongy Bone
Are they both innervated?
Bones would be much stronger if they were solid. Why are they not?

Bone Lecture

What are the contents of bone tissue?
what are the skeletal system functions?
Which bone shape provides the most leverage for movement?
What are the various shapes of Bones?
The vascular, innervated membrane that surrounds the bone is called ______.
The membrane lining the marrow cavity and internal passages is the______.
The portion of the bone covered with articular cartilage.
The shaft is also called _____.
The swelling on each end of the long bone is called __________.
T or F. Both the periosteum and the endosteum possess osteogenic potency
Describe the structure of flat bone, how does this protect the brain from injury?
What is the function of osteocytes? osteoblasts? osteoclasts?
How do osteocytes communicate and obtain nutrients?
Filopods are located in tiny canals in the matrix called________.
What is the Bone matrix composed of? (organic and inorganic)
What is the benefit of having organic and inorganic substance in the matrix?
What is the basic structural unit of bone?
Distinguish between Circumferential and Concentric Lamellae
What limits the size of an osteon?
Distinguish between Lacunae and Howship’s lacunae
The perforating canal that runs horizontal to the Haversian canal is called_______.
Why does the trabeculae in spongy bone develop along the lines of stress?
What is bone marrow? what are the different types?
What is the prinicipal difference between intramembranous ossification and endochondral ossification? describe the 2 processes
distinguish between Metaphysis and epiphysis
What are the 5 zones of Metaphyisis?
What are fontanels?
Distinguish between interstitial and appositonal bone growth?
Describe bone remodeling
What factors affect bone?
What is GH? what 3 disorders did we discuss?
what are the steps of mineralizations?
How does bone erosion occur?
Factors that regulate calcium balance include calcitriol, calcitonin and PTH. How do they regulate it?
This disease is defined by a lose in bone mass ,organic matrix and minerals.
What are the stages of healing? How long does it take?
Muscle Lecture

What are the 5 specific characteristics of muscle?
This voluntary striated muscle is attached to bones
what is the function of series elastic components?
Cells that do not fuse with the syncytium are called?
What are the functional units of muscle? describe there filaments and regions.
What occurs to the regions during contraction?
What is the function of titin?
describe motor units.
What are the components of the NMJ?
List and describe the 4 actions involved in contraction and relaxation.
why does rigor mortis occur?
Which neuromuscular toxin blocks glycine?
which toxin inhibits AChE?
What does Curare cause?
This soil related bacterium blocks AcH release
What happens when Black Widow Spider venom is injected into a person?
Which toxin is 10-100 times more toxic than Black Widow venom?
What is Myathenia Gravis? how is it treated?
what is the length- tension relationship?
how do Twitch, Treppe and tetanus differ?
What is the reason for asynchronous contraction?
Describe the sources of ATP during intense exercise.
Why do we need to breath heavily after strenuous exercise
compare slow and fast fibers
Which is smaller
which attributes to endurance
which has many mitochondria
which has low myoglobin content
which large glycogen reserves
Describe the cells in cardiac muscles
Describe smooth muscle cells
where do smooth muscle cells get their calcium?
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Integument system practice practical is up

Just updated my notes... got the integument system practice practical (powerpoint 1) done... visit:

https://public.me.com/rbbaker11
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Questions For Integument (created by Amanda)

Integument 
  1. Name 6 Functions of skin 
  2. Skin is composed of what 2 tissues?
  3. What is the hypodermis? Functions?
  4. what are the characteristics of thin skin and thick skin? 
  5. What is the thickness of skin? 
  6. What is the benefit of having irregular connective tissue in the dermis?
  7. Why does the spinosum layer appear spiny?
  8. What is significant about desmosomes? In what layers are they found? 
  9. What are the layers of the epidermis? 
  10. What 3 cell types are found in the Stratum Basale? what is their function?
  11. Where are Langerhans Cells found? what is their function? characteristics?
  12. Describe the stratum granulosum layer
  13. Why do keratinocytes release lipids? 
  14. How do lipids affect cell membranes?
  15. Describe the maturation of keratinocytes. How is maturity  determined?
  16. How many days does it take for a cell to mature?
  17. What disease can occur if the rate of mitosis increases?
  18. Describe the cells in the Stratum Lucidum 
  19. describe Pemphigus
  20. what are melanosomes? melanin?
  21. How do melanocytes transfer melanin?
  22. If people have about the same # of melanocytes, what determines skin color?
  23. What is the effect of UV on melanogenesis?
  24. describe the 6 sensory receptors of the skin? where are they located?
  25. describe the dermis. thickness, compositon, vascularity  and layers.
  26. describe the following abnormal skin conditions: cyonosis, erythema, jaundice, addisons disease, albanism, vitiligo, hematoma, hemangiomas, freckles/moles
  27. what are friction ridges and flexion creases?
  28. what are the 2 polymers that cause skin pigmentation?
  29. what is significant about cleavage lines?
  30. Hair and nails are toughened by what type of interaction?
  31. list the 3 different hair types
  32. list functions of body hair
  33. what is the hair shaft composed of? name the 3 layers
  34. How are nutrients provided to the hair bulb?
  35. describe the structure of a hair follicle
  36. which gland is more likely to get infected, sebaceous or apocrine? why?
  37. what happens to the medulla as the hair grows?
  38. Blonde hair is composed of what pigments?Black and dark brown hair? red hair? grey hair?
  39. Why does black hair tend to be stronger than blonde?
  40. Why is it important that the hair growth cycle is asynchronous?
  41. What are the 3 stages of the hair growth cycle and what is there time frame?
  42. what is the average growth rate of nails?
  43. Identify and describe the parts of the nail
  44. distinguish between merocrine and apocrine glands
  45. where are Ceruminous glands found?
  46. What are the 3 skin cancers discussed?
  47. Describe the degrees of burns
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Thanks for creating this, its great!

I emailed Kim G. for us to see if she can post the audio from lecture today in Jenny's absence. I will let you guys know if I hear anything.
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Sunday, August 1, 2010

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