Specialized connective tissues — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What type of collagen makes up reticulin fibers?_____

Answer: Type III

Flashcard 2: _____ is a stretchy protein within skin, lungs, large arteries, elastic ligaments, vocal cords, and ligamentum flava

Answer: Elastin

Flashcard 3: What type of collagen makes up bone, skin, and tendon? _____

Answer: Type I

Flashcard 4: Melanocytes are responsible for skin pigmentation and are present in the _____ layer of the epidermis

Answer: basal

Flashcard 5: What type of collagen makes up the basement membrane?_____

Answer: Type IV

Flashcard 6: What is the epithelial lining of the palatine tonsil?

Answer: Non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium (derived from the 2nd pharyngeal pouch)

Extra: The palatine tonsil develops from the endoderm of the 2nd pharyngeal pouch. While the embryological origin is the 2nd pouch, the histological lining of the tonsillar crypts and surface is non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium.

Flashcard 7: epithelial linings of oral cavity

Answer: surface ectoderm

Flashcard 8: epidermis

Answer: surface ectoderm

Flashcard 9: parotid, sweat, and mammary glands

Answer: surface ectoderm

Flashcard 10: connective tissue

Answer: mesoderm