Histology — Flashcards

Flashcard 211: What type of glands are salivary glands, glands of resp. passages and pancreas (based on duct morphology)?_____

Answer: Compound tubuloalveolar

Flashcard 212: _____ cells are a type of glial cells found in the retina that help in the binding of the neuronal elements together.

Answer: Muller

Flashcard 213: Suggillation occurs in the most superficial layer of _____ of skin

Answer: dermis

Flashcard 214: Which mechanoreceptors are present in the dermal papillae?

Answer: Meissner's corpuscles

Flashcard 215: What type of muscle fiber is characterized by striations, branching, a single central nucleus, and intercalated discs?

Answer: Cardiac

Flashcard 216: Based on duct morphology, what type of glands are the gastric glands and the mucous glands of the esophagus and tongue?

Answer: Simple branched tubular

Extra: Brunner's glands of the **duodenum** are an important exception; they are **compound** tubular glands, not simple. Other examples of simple branched tubular glands include the **uterine glands**.

Flashcard 217: Cytokeratin _____ is a cytoplasmic protein that can be used as a limbal stem cell marker

Answer: 19

Flashcard 218: What type of cartilage is present in the costal cartilage of ribs?_____

Answer: Hyaline

Flashcard 219: What type of cartilage has type 2 collagen fibres mainly?_____

Answer: Hyaline and elastic

Flashcard 220: Within which part of the gastric gland are the mucous cells located?_____

Answer: Neck