Skin and its appendages

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Where are Langerhans cells found?
Stratum spinosum
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What do Langerhan cells do?
Take up antigen
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What do white blood cells do?
Surround bacteria to undergo phagocytosis
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What cell is in the stratum basale
Merkel cell
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What is a parokrine cell?
Produces hormone, uses adjacent cell to pass it on
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Where are hemidesomosomes, lamina dense, collagen and fibrils indermis found?
Dermo-epidermal cell
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What do fibroblasts do?
Produce collagen
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What are the layers of the skin in order
Epidermis, Dermis, Subcutaneous
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What is onychauxis?
Thickened nails
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What is koilonychia?
Concave nails due to iron deficiency
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What is parakeratosis?
Psoriasis
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What is the thickening of the stratum corneum called?
Hyperkeratosis
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Where is the papillary dermis and the reticular dermis found?
Dermis
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What does G.A.G.S stand for
Glycosaminoglycan
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What charge is G.A.G.S
Negative
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Where is GAGS
Extracelluar matrix
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What is the vasodilation and vasoconstriction called?
A-V shunt
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How does vasodilation occur?
Arteries open the blood goes through the veins as the capillaries shut
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What does blood contain?
Plasma cells, Plasma proteins, Platelets
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What are the three phases of acute inflammation
Vascular, Exudative, Cellular
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What happens to the blood in the vascular phase?
Increases
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What happens in Exudative phase?
protein rich fluid leaves the capillary bed
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What sign occurs during cellular phase?
Pus
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What are mechanical, thermal, infection, immunological all causes of?
Acute inflammation
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What is protection, keratin barrier and Vitamin D synthesis linked to?
Skin
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What layer is the horny layer?
Stratum corneum
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What hold corneocytes together?
Corneodesmosomes
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What is only present when the skin is thick?
Stratum Lucidum
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Where are granules of keratohylin found?
Stratum granulosum
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What enzyme/s are present in the Stratum granulosum?
Lipase and protease
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Where are the polyhedral and Langerhan cells found?
Stratum spinosum
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What layer is avascular
Stratum basale
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Where do some offspring from keratinisation migrate to?
Stratum corneum
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In the stratum spinosum there are a large number of what?
Desmosomes
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