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the cell
Revised By: OCLARIT, Aither Benedict C.; Lecture By: DR. F. ABELLANA
Structure:
• The smallest unit of protoplasm capable of independent existence
and the cells group together to form tissues becoming spherical in Glycogen, Lipid)
→ Size: very variable (E.g. ovum - largest cell in the female body, skeletal
Carry out specific Serve as temporary
muscle – in pochero)
metabolic activities of the storage for these
• Non-membranous
1. Plasma membrane
CYTOPLASM
→ Though surrounded by cell it is NOT suspended in the Cytosol but
The protoplasm surrounding the nucleus still an organelle
Cytosol (fluid portion of cell where formed elements are → Term depends on Type of cell being studied
suspended); Sarcoplasm (in the muscle); Neuroplasm (in the (E.g. Sarcolemma – muscle, Neurolemma – neuron)
nervous tissue); Axoplasm (in the axon)
→ The membrane that separates the cell from the other cells in the body
Formed elements suspended in Cytosol:
→ L/M – not seen(don’t label cell membrane in Lab manual drawing!
1. Organelles Minus 20!)
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➢ Cholesterol: responsible for the fluidity of the Confers some degree of specificity or selectivity of cell surface
membrane
Composed of glycoproteins and glycolipids
➢ Glycoproteins: responsible for the selectivity
(Organelles suspended in Cytosol)
or the immune responses of the cell
membrane, proteins attached to 2. Mitochondria
sugars/carbohydrates
→ L/M
➢ Glycolipids: sugars attached to the lipid layer
Special stain: Acid Fuchsin or supravital stain Janus Green
*The glycoprotein & glycolipid would form a coat over the
surface of the cell called Glycocalyx. Appear as slender rods or filaments
→ E/M
Barrier for cell contents, enclose entire cell to separate Powerhouse of the cell
cytoplasm from extracellular components
3. Endoplasmic Reticulum
A. Bulk transport
L/M
➢ Engulfment of large particulate
**Cells that are actively producing proteins will have well *Cell is involved all the time with Phagocytosis or Exocytosis –
developed endoplasmic reticulum ?fractions? reduce cell membrane because of the packaging of endosome
Function: for protein synthesis/production of proteins **Loss of Cell Membrane will be replaced by Vesicle coming
from Golgi complex
*Neurons produce proteins. Secretory product: Neurotransmitter
(e.g. Acetylcholine) Synthesis of CHO (Carbohydrate) in limited amount
No ribosomes; tubular
Functions: 5. LYSOSOMES
1. Synthesis of lipids & steroids (glucocorticoids), cells that → L/M – not seen
actively produces steroids will have well developed
→ E/M – small membrane bound dense bodies with hydrolytic enzymes;
smooth surface ER (E.g. Cells in the Adrenal gland (an
developed from the Golgi complex
Endocrine gland) – especially Cortex (composed of cells
with well developed smooth surface ER), Ad.G. produces → Digestive organelle of the cell
steroidal hormones (in cortex) and protein hormones (in
medulla) ) → Function: digestion of non-usable intracellular materials in the cell
(phagocytize substances), sometimes but most of the time digestion
2. Detoxification of drugs/substances (E.g. Drugs, Alcohol, is not complete
Smooth surface ER in Liver cells (Hepatocytes))
*Lipofuscin granules - residual indigestible residues/residues of
*Detoxification - main function of hepatocytes lysosomal digestion which will accumulate in cell cytoplasm, aka wear
and tear pigments
3. Storage/sequestration & release of Calcium during
muscular contraction 6. Peroxisomes
Identified by an unstained area near the nucleus → Electron dense central core - Nucleioid
With Silver stain, the area is blackened → Contains oxidases & catalases
Modifies, concentrates and packages secretions, from E.R. are → E/M - Composed of parallel lamellae or cisternae containing pores
transported to Golgi complex to be concentrated & packaged
(producing secretory vesicles/transport vesicles) → Seen in rapidly dividing cells (E.g. germ cells)
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➢ 25 nm
Non-membranous Organelles ➢ Tubulin (basic building block/basic protein unit that will
make up the Micro-tubule)
1. Centrosome / Cell Center
➢ Responsible for Cell motility (Flagellate or Ciliary
→ L/M
movements)
Pale area of cytoplasm, like Golgi complex, the Cell Center will
Ciliated cells in body Flagellated cells
be located: unstained area near the Nucleus
Non-motile Motile
Pair of short rods – Centrioles (2), 2 organelles will be complex;
Cell Center will be ?compacting? each other Function:
9 sets of triplets of Micro-tubules (pinwheel manner – ➢ Function: For distribution of organelles (Cytoskeleton will
characteristic arrangement of Micro-tubules of the wall of the serve as the highway for the distribution of the different
centriole) – will form the wall of Centriole organelles to the different parts of the cell)
➢ 8-10 nm
➢ Types:
2. As [give rise to] basal bodies or kinetosome (serve as organizing 5. Glial filaments – neuroglial cells
structure for the formation of cilia & flagella) where cilia &
flagella (motile processes of cells) originate 6. Lamins – beneath nuclear envelope
2. Cytoskeleton ➢ Functions
→ E/M – network of structural proteins (forms Lattice - for support) that 3. Attachment
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➢ Contractility of cytoplasm ➢ Increase in number as a person grows older
➢ Protoplasmic streaming (type of movement of the ➢ Cells, especially neurons, will have endogenous pigments.
protoplasm)
➢ Wear & tear pigments
➢ Visco-elasticity of cytoplasm
4. Vacuoles
E.g.:
→ E/M – Protein complexes for the breakdown of...
CYTOPLASMIC INCLUSIONS
NUCLEUS
1. Nutritive substances
• Largest organelle
→ E.g. CHO (Carbohydrates), CHON (Proteins) & FATS
• Functions:
→ Inside vesicles containing secretions made from Golgi complex
b. Endogenous
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nuclear pores that allow for exchange of material with the rest E/M – made up of filaments or strands of DNA
of the cell
- histones as binding proteins
➢ occurs in areas where the 2 membranes unite, there is a
- nucleosome
“hole”
2. Euchromatin
➢ Pyknotic nucleus
2. Nucleolus
L/M – deeply stained clumps scattered throughout the ➢ When there are two X chromosomes in the individual, one
nucleoplasm (Chromatin Knots–represents the chromatin which of the X chromosome will be condensed to form an
will be condensed) appendage (a process) attached to the nucleus of some
of the cells in the body. (e.g. neurons, epithelial cells,
➢ Chromatin is condensed – H&E slides will appear as darkly
neutrophils – BARR bodies will look like a “drumstick”)
staining clumps
➢ Will only be seen in individuals with two X chromosomes
➢ Uncoiled or extended or NOT condensed - it cannot be
(Females)
seen/unstainable
➢ Also found in males with XXY genotype (Klinefelter’s
*Under L/M: There will be dark (condensed chromatin) and light
syndrome)
(uncoiled chromatin) areas in the nucleus
➢ Significance: aid in determining the sex of a person
The segment of the chromosome that will remain condensed &
stainable (chromatin)
Chromosomes: during cell division, the chromatin will condense Cell Divisions
to form discrete rod-like structures seen ONLY during cell
→ Amitosis
division
→ Mitosis
Karyosome/Chromatin Knot: individual clumps or masses of
chromatin identified in L/M, seen in H&E slides
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Histology Laboratory: Exercise 1 – Cell Structure (Lecture Correlation) Slide 56 – ovary (organ)
➢ Gray matter – one in the center which will look like letter “A” surrounded
by white matter
-Granulosa lutein cells: in the center, large cells with vesicular nucleus which looks
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FUNDAMENTAL TISSUES 2017 (HUMAN HISTOLOGY EPITHELIAL TISSUES
LECTURE)
• A tissue composed of one or more layers of contiguous
Revised By: OCLARIT, Aither Benedict C.; Lecture By: DR. cells lining external or internal surfaces of the body
F. ABELLANA including small cavities & vessels (arteries, veins,
lymphatics)
• Tissue:
• All the surfaces of the body will be covered by epithelium
∼ an aggregate of similarly specialized cells united in
the performance of a particular function • Functions:
∼ Group of cells that perform the same function ∼ All the external surface of the body is covered
with the epithelium for protection especially areas
• Histogenesis: that are always subjected to mechanical
irritations
∼ process of development/formation of tissues from the
undifferentiated cells of the embryonic germ layers ∼ E.g. lining epithelium of the skin
2. CONNECTIVE tissue – will develop only from the ∼ Sensory organs are made up of epithelium
mesoderm
6. Reproduction
3. MUSCULAR tissue – will develop only from the
mesoderm ∼ The sex cells will develop from epithelium
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∼ Lamina Propria: connective tissue bed of the ➢ opposite end, usually facing a space
epithelium
∼ The arrangement of the organelles in the distal
➢ The cells are not directly in contact with the end and basal end of the cell will indicate Cell
Lamina Propria; there is a structure between Polarity
it called Basement membrane
DISTAL end BASAL
→ Avascular but well supplied with nerves end
→ Tissue layer ALWAYS has one free surface exposed ∼ Simple (one layer)
to the environment
➢ E.g. Simple epithelium – all the cells are
attached to the basement membrane, all the
cells reach the surface since its only 1 layer
• Epithelial Cells
∼ Stratified (more than one layer/many layers)
1. Nucleus conforms cell shape
➢ E.g. Some cells attach to the basement
∼ If the cell is round, the nucleus is round membrane, some cells reach the surface
BUT NOT ALL CELLS will have a free
∼ EXCEPTION: surface?
2. Manifest polarity
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Focus CORTEX. In the peripheral part of specimen,
you will find rounded bodies – Renal Corpuscle:
composed of network of capillaries (Glomerulus)
enclosed by a capsule (Bowman’s Capsule; lined by
Simple Squamous Epithelium)
• Types of Epithelium
I. Simple
II. Stratified
Top view of Simple Squamous - Slide 1: Mesentery ▪ Simple squamous epithelium lining
Serous membranes: membranes that
lines serous cavities
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∼ Type best suited for absorption
∼ Examples:
1. Skin
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2. Tongue
3. Esophagus
4. Vagina
A. Glandular epithelia
▪ Secretion is slimy
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▪ Examples: → Functional surfaces
✴ Examples:
∼ Basically pseudostratified
∼ Examples:
c. Stereocilia
1. Vestibular apparatus
✴ Long, flexible, branching
2. Organ of Corti (internal ear – cochlea)
✴ Central core lacks filaments
3. Crista ampularis (found in semi-circular
canals) ✴ Examples:
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*(lined by C. Secreted plate
p s e u d o s t r a t i fi e d
columnar with ▪ Membranous plaque deposited on free
stereocilia) surface of cells?
✴ Very long
2. Gap junction (Nexus)
✴ One per cell
▪ Permit the rapid spread of excitation
✴ Structure, same as cilium from one cell to the next
3. Hemidesmosome (Integrins)
▪ Half of desmosome
1. Basement membrane
▪ Made up of 3 structures:
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CONNECTIVE TISSUE 2017 (HUMAN HISTOLOGY ➢ Nucleus: large, oval & pale with 2 [pyknotic]
LECTURE) nucleoli
Revised By: OCLARIT, Aither Benedict C.; Lecture By: DR. ➢ Cytoplasm
F. ABELLANA
▪ Fine branching processes
• A tissue composed of cells & extracellular fibers
embedded in a gel-like ground substance, the Matrix ▪ Acidophilic (the cell is resting) or
Basophilic (actively producing
• General characteristics: something)
→ Cells are far apart (because the matrix is abundant) ➢ Function: production of CT fi bers & ground
substance
→ Presence of non-living fibers in the intercellular
substance
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B. Bone marrow – Littoral cells ➢ Russell bodies: defective antibodies in the
cytoplasm of plasma cells
C. Lungs – heart failure cells (engulf
hemosiderin pigments) & dust cells
(engulf dust)
E. CNS – microglia
4. Plasma cells
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7. Leukocytes ➢ Boiling converts it to gelatin
➢ Not permanent cells in CTs (transient) ➢ Dissolves in strong acid & alkali
Chemotaxis – migration to areas with injury; ➢ Treated with tannic acid – yields tough &
in response to cytokines produced by insoluble material
macrophage
➢ Collagen - most abundant protein in the
8. Reticular cells body
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∼ Produced by specialized fibroblast called Fibrillin:
Reticular cell
→ forms lattice for elastin assembly
➢ Resorcin-fuchsin stain:
➢ Highly refractile (property of elasticity - Elastic fiber: waving refractile line between acidophilic
ability of an object or material to resume its structures (muscle fi bers of the wall of blood vessel), in
normal shape after being stretched or between acidophilic structure is elastic fi ber
compressed)
Internal Elastic lamina:
➢ Highly stretchable (if object or material is composed of many
not able to go back to its normal shape after elastic fibers
being stretched; material is stretchable)
∼ Chemical properties:
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2. Responsible for metachromasia (ability to take
another color different from the color of the stain
used; E.g. Mast Cell)/metachromatic staining of
G.S. & PAS reaction (presence of carbohydrates
in G.S.)
→ Types of glycosaminoglycans
→ Laminin – adhesion of epithelial cells to basement ➢ Responsible for the high viscosity of the
membrane G.S.; thus serve as mechanical barrier to the
spread of [bacterial] infection in tissues
→ Thrombospondin – blood clot formation; found in
blood platelets ➢ Hyaluronidase – an enzyme that
depolymerizes hyaluronic acid
∼ Proteoglycans – complexes of proteins & CHO → Based on Preponderant Fibers present (PF) – which
(carbohydrates) to which glycosaminoglycans are of the 2 fibers predominate? Elastic or Collagen?
attached
A. Embryonal types
∼ Resemble the handle of a test tube brush
(glycoproteins/proteoglycans). The bristles will B. Post-natal or adult types
be the Glycosaminoglycans.
A. Embryonal types/Embryonal C.T. proper
∼ Proteoglycans (or GlycoProtein) and
Glycosaminoglycans have the same components: 1. Mesenchymal !Connective Tissue! (mesenchyme)
Protein and Sugar
*put “Conn. Tissue” after Mesenchymal always!
Cause there’s also Mesenchymal “Epithelium”
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∼ Occurrence – between germ layers & developing
organs of embryo
Mesenchymal C.T.: between the neural tube and the B. Adult types
notochord
1. Areolar CT/Loose Connective Tissue
Shape of Mesenchymal Cells: spindle, fusiform ∼ Most common, most popular
LPO HPO
∼ Taken from “Areola” – dark pigmented area
surrounding the nipple
∼ PC – fi broblast
∼ PF – collagen
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∼ Occ – bone marrow, lymphoid organs (in L.O., ➢ Cosmetic purposes
the tissue is INFILTRATED with Lymphocytes, the
!conn. tissue name changes! – Lymphoid
Connective Tissue; PC will then be
Lymphocytes!), liver
∼ PC – adipose/fat cell
4. Dense(Compact) fibrous CT
∼ PF – type III & IV collagen
∼ There is great preponderance of fibers/fibrous
∼ Occ – subcutaneous layer (panniculus adiposus elements over the cells & ground substances
[of your skin]), mesentery, axilla, hypodermis of
∼ Classification:
skin, tongue, armpit, groin, inguinal area
1. Based on arrangement of fibers
!BUT ABSENT IN! XCNS, Xlungs, Xeyelids,
Xpenis 2. Based on preponderant fiber
∼ Functions: ∼ ARRANGEMENT of fibers
➢ Shock absorber
▪ Definite pattern/arrangement of fiber
arrangement
➢ Insulator
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▪ E.g. tendon (connect muscle to
bone), ligament (connects bone to
bone), aponeurosis
2. Dense IRREGULAR
Slide 3: X-Sec. of D.E.C.T. *The entire tendon will be composed of many tendon
fascicles and the entire tendon is surrounded by
another CT…
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