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09/11/2012

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What are the two different approaches used to explain events that occur in the body?
Definition
Teleological - the purpose of a body process

Mechanistic - underlying mechanism
Term
What is the fundamental unit of both structure and function?
Definition
Cells
Term
What (generally) needs to occur for cells to form tissues?
Definition
They need to have similar structure and function
Term
With muscle tissue, what does contraction cause? What does this end up causing?
Definition
Contraction generates tension which produces movement
Term
What is the function of nervous tissue?
Definition
Initiates and transmits electrical impulses
Term
What is the function of epithelial tissue?
Definition
Exchanging materials between the cell and its environment
Term
For a substance to enter or leave the body, what must it cross?
Definition
An epithelial barrier
Term
What are the two general structures of epithelial tissues?
Definition
Epithelial sheets and secretory glands
Term
Loose connective tissue attaches ______________ to ____________
Definition
epithelial tissue to underlying structures
Term
How do exocrine glands secrete materials to the body? (2 ways)
Definition
Through ducts to the body surface or into a cavity that communicates with the outside
Term
What are glands derived from?
Definition
Epithelial tissue
Term
What is the term for an interconnected network of body components that work together to maintain a given factor?
Definition
Homeostatic control system
Term
What are the subclasses of the homeostatic control system?
Definition
Intrinsic and Extrinsic
Term
What are intrinsic and extrinsic, relative to the homeostatic control system?
Definition
Intrinsic - controal are built into an organ

Extrinsic - controls are initiated outside an organ to alter the organ's activity
Term
Where would one find enzymes involved in intermediary metabolism and ribosomes?
Definition
Cytosol
Term
What is the process for uptaking ECF into the cell?
Definition
Pinocytosis
Term
What type of enzymes are found in lysosomes? Peroxisomes?
Definition
Lysosomes - hydrolytic

Peroxisomes - oxidative
Term
Where does glycolysis occur?
Definition
Cytosol
Term
Where does the TCA cycle occur?
Definition
Matrix
Term
Where does oxidative phosphorylation occur?
Definition
Inner membrane
Term
Which step of cell respiration is anaerobic? What is produced during this step?
Definition
Glycolysis 4 total ATP but a net of 2 ATP as well as 2 NADH. Glucose is broken down into 2 pyruvate molecules
Term
What step occurs pre- TCA cycle?
Definition
pyruvate ---> acetyl CoA
Term
What is the major function of the citric acid cycle?
Definition
Preparing hydrogen carrier molecules to enter oxidative phosphorylation
Term
During protein synthesis, what goes into forming a ribosome?
Definition
A large and a small ribosomal subunit
Term
Ribosomes translate _______________ into chains of __________________ according to the DNA code?
Definition
translate mRNA into chains of amino acids
Term
What is the subunit of microtubules?
Definition
tubulin
Term
What is the subunit of microfilaments?
Definition
Actin
Term
What cellular subunit plays an important role in contractile systems?
Definition
Microfilaments
Term
What are the irregular threadlike proteins that help cells resist mechanical stress?
Definition
Intermediate filaments
Term
What are the cells self identity markers?
Definition
Membrane carbohydrates
Term
What significance does the ECM serve with cell cell adhesions?
Definition
Area of linkage
Term
What protein allows for stretching and recoil?
Definition
Elastin
Term
What no elastic protein provides tensile strength?
Definition
Collagen
Term
What protein hold cells together?
Definition
Fibronectin
Term
What is the function of a desmosome?
Definition
Links 2 non touching cells like Velcro.
Term
Function of tight junctions? Where are they most abundant?
Definition
Seal between 2 adjacent cells which prevents salutes from going to cell to cell. Found in epithelial sheets
Term
What is the function of gap junctions and how do they work? Where are the abundant
Definition
Tubes made of connexons link 2 cells and allow unrestricted flow of solutes between the 2 cells. Found mostly in cardiac tissue
Term
How can small ions pass the bilayer?
Definition
Down electrochemical gradient through open protein channels
Term
What are the channels that water can pass through?
Definition
Aquaporins
Term
Whys specifically is osmotic pressure?
Definition
Pressure needed to stop osmosis
Term
What is toxicity?
Definition
The effect the solution has on cell volume
Term
How is glucose transported into cells?
Definition
Facilitated diffusion
Term
Describe secondary active transport.
Definition
Driven by ion gradient as a result of primary active transport
Term
What are the two types of vesicular transport?
Definition
End oxytocin and exocytosis
Term
Describe membrane potential?
Definition
Separation of opposite charges across a membrane
Term
What is equilibrium potential?
Definition
The membrane potential when ion concentration gradient is balanced by electrical gradient.
Term
What is the difference between graded and action potentials?
Definition
Graded - short range

Action - long range
Term
What part of the membrane do graded potentials occur?
Definition
Active parts of the membrane
Term
At the top of an action potential, what is the state of the voltage gated sodium channel?
Definition
Activation gate remains open but the inactivation gate is closed. Not capable of opening.
Term
At the end of the falling phase but before hyperpolarization, what is the state of the sodium channel?
Definition
Inactivation gate Is open while the activation gate is closed. Still capable of opening though.
Term
At what points during an action potential are the voltage potassium channels closed?
Definition
Until the top of the action potential and at the very end of the action potential. Channel is only open during the falling phase.
Term
Describe propagation of an action potential?
Definition
One direction only and it is non diminishing.
Term
What ensures an action potential only moves in one direction?
Definition
The refractory period
Term
What's the difference between absolute and relative refractory period?
Definition
Absolute- cannot be restimulated

Relative- can be restimulated if there is a strong enough stimulus
Term
How do action potential vary?
Definition
Only in the frequency not the size.
Term
What part of a neuron is where action potentials initiate?
Definition
Axon hillock
Term
What are the two types of conduction and how do they differ.
Definition
Contiguous- Unmyelinated fibers

Salvatore- myelinated fibers
Term
What are the myelinated cells of the pns and cns?
Definition
Pns- Schwann

Cns- oligodendracitws
Term
Describe two types of synapses
Definition
Electrical- linked by gap junctions

Chemical- neurotransmitters flow across
Term
If a neurotransmitter opens Sodium and potassium channels, what occurs?
Definition
Epsp
Term
If a neurotransmitter opens potassium and chloride channels, what happens?
Definition
Ipsp
Term
What is temporal summation?
Definition
Epsp or ISP from a single repetitive firing Presynaptic input occurs so close together in time that they end up adding together
Term
What is spatial summation?
Definition
Adding epsp or Ipsp from different Presynaptic inputs! Simultaneously
Term
What is the grand post synaptic potential?
Definition
Summation of all inputs
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