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What are tissues?

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  • specialised cells embedded in an extracellular matrix
  • a functional arrangemt of cells
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What do tissues form?

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Organs

Which forms organs systems which form you

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4 key types of tissues

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  • epithelial tissue (lining/ secretion)
  • connective (support) tissue
  • muscle tissue (skeletal,smooth,cardiac)
  • nervous tissue
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Cells have an internal cytoskeleton network of filaments for…

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Shape, support and movement

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Why do cells secrete extracellular matrix?

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For support and structure and regulation of cell communication and behaviour

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Cytoskeleton vs ECM staining

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Two key functions of the ECM with examples

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To maintain differentiated state of cells:
E.g mouse mammary gland epithelium cultured without ECM are flat and don’t produce milk

To maintain normal overall development:
E.g inactivation genes for ECM proteins results in defective skeletal development

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Where is epithelial tissue found?

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  • lines organs and cavities within the body
  • covers the external body (epidermis) (including from mouth to anus)
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What is the function of epithelial tissue?

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  • protective barrier
  • absorptive and secretory adaptions
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Features of epithelial tissue

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  • has polarity (apical and basal surfaces)
  • has basement membrane as a scaffold and anchor to underlying connective (support) tissue
  • Avascular (nutrients via diffusion)
  • Regenerative (stem cells allow regeneration)
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How do u classify epithelium

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Based on morphological criteria
- cell shape (squamous, cuboidal, columnar)
- number of cell layers (simple, stratified, pseudo stratified, transitional)

Based on surface specialisations
- micro vili
- cilia

Based on whether surface (covering) or glandular (secretory)
- glandular epithelium can be single cells or grouped into glans to allow focused production of a secreted product

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How are epithelial cells connected?

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Cellular junctions

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3 classifications of cellular junctions that connect epithelial cells

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  • occluding
  • anchoring
  • communicating
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1 example of an occluding cellular junctions in epithelial cells

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  • tight junctions (zonula occludens)
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3 examples of anchoring cellular junctions

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  • zonula adherens
  • desmosomes
  • hemidesmomes
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1 example of communicating cellular junctions

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  • gao junctions
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Epithelial cellular junctions

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  • tight junctions (zonula occludens)
  • zonula adherens
  • desmosomes
  • hemidesmosomes
  • gap junctions
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What are tight junctions

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Tightly bound junctions at apical region

(Protects paracellular pathway)

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What do zonula adherens do?

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Strengthens attachments to neighbouring cells at apical region

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What do gap junctions allow?

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Communication between neighbouring cells

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What do desmosomes do?

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Firmly anchor neighbouring cells together

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What do hemidesmosomes do?

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Anchors cell to basement membrane

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Junctional complex
- tight, zonula adherens and desmosomes all in close proximity - (On electron micro-graph, the darker a region is the denser and stronger it is hence the appearance of the desmosome)
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When do tight junctions control?
The paracellular pathway
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Another name for tight junctions
Zonula occludens
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What so tight junctions contain?
- transmembrane proteins - occludin - Claudins (Different proteins in different cells to control what gets through and what doesn’t - changes in different areas of tissue)
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Different Claudine = different _______ in different _______
Permeabilities Tissues
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Why are claudins so important - KIDNEYS
In kidney, only specific regions are permeable to Mg2+ ions due to Claudin-16 Mutation to Claudine-16 gene = abnormal claudin-16 resulting in a junction impermeable to ion This results in low Mg2+ reabsorbiton back into the blood - magnesium deficiency - kidney damage/renal failure
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What is claudin-1 responsible for?
- waterproof qualities of skin - mice lacking gene for claudin-1 died at birth due to dehydration
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What do zonula adherens do?
- links cytoskeltons to adjacent cells
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What do zonula adherens contain?
- actin microfilaments (connects to) - main transmembrane proteins - E-Cadherins
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What is E-Cadherins linked to?
Matastasis of cancer cells
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Malignant cells have lower levels of ________ expression
E-cadherin
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Why are Cadherins so important?
Loss of E-cadherins is linked to metastasis of cancer cells
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What do desmosomes do? And what do they connect to?
- link cytoskeletoms of adjacent cells - connect to cytokeratin (intamediate filaments) (stronger then actin)
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What do desmosomes contain ?
TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIMNS Cadherins such as desmoglein
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What is pemphigus vulgaris?
- autoimmune disease - antibodies attack desmoglein 3 which keeps cells bound together (part of a desmosome) - cells fall apart, skin sloughs off - Cadherins are imperative for maintaining structural integrity of epithelium
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Cadherins are important for mainigning _____ integrity of ______
Structural Epithelium
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What are hemidesmosomes and where are they found?
- modified (half) desmosomes - found on basal surface of cell
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What is the purpose of hemidesmosomes?
- to anchor to basement membrane (Stop cells peeling off form underlying tissue)
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What do hemidesmosomes bind to?
Cytokeratin
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What do hemidesmosomes contain? Main transmembrane protein
Integrins
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What are gap junctions
Communicating junctions
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What do gap junctions contain ? main transmembrane proteins?
- conexins - form channels called connexons that can open/close - allow passage of ions and small molecules
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What do connexins do?
- form channels called connexons that can open/close - allow passage of ions and small molecules
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Epithelial tissue is _____
Polarised
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Epithelial cells have an ____ and ____ surface
Apical Basal
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What are microvili ?
Fingerlike projections of plasma membrane
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How long are microvili?
Very short - 0.5 - 1 um
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What is the purpose of microvili?
- provides increases surface area e.g for absorption (intestine, kidney)
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What is the core of microvili made of?
Parallel actin bundles
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What part of microvili can you see under light microscopy?
Brush boarder
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What part of microvili can you see through electron microscopy ?
Individual microvili with shape maintained by actin filaments
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Two different forms of cilia and what they are for
Non-motile: sensory information Motile: beat in rhythm to move substances across - e.g. respiratory tract - sperm flagellum = modified cilium
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How long are cilia
Up to 10um long (half a cell length)
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What gives cilia its strength
- has a cytoskeleton composed of a core of microtubules
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Apical characteristics of epithelial cells
- cilia - microvili
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What does the basement membrane do?
- binds epithelial cells to connective tissue - forms barrier but allows nutrients to pass to epithelia, regulated permeability. - controls growth and differentiation
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What is the basement membrane
Sheet-like arrangement of ECM proteins
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What is the basement membrane formed by?
- both epithelia and connective tissue
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What can you see of the basement membrane under light microscope
- not easily distinguished with H&E staining - immunocytochemisty can be used to stain specific components (e.g collagen IV labelled with immunogold)
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What can you see of the basement membrane under electron microscopy ?
- 3 layers are visible - lamina lucida - lamina densa (aka basal lamina) - lamina fibroreticularis
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What are the purpose of basal folding?
Increases surface area on basal surface of cell
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What structures allow epithlium to act as a protective barrier?
- junctional complexes - holds epithelium as a sheet - basement membrane - anchoring sheet and control in permeability through to the underlying tissues
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What structures allow epithelial cells to absorb substances from apical surfaces and pass on to underlying tissues?
- microvili - basal folding - basement membrane
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