- The endothelium of discontinuous capillaries has tight junctions.
- Identify the region in this vessels between the two green lines.
- The left fibrous trigone is part of which component of the heart?
- An antigen that gains entry into the blood stream would most likely be detected and responded to in which of the locations?
- What are the darker areas circled in red?
- What specific region of a lymph node is spanned by the yellow lines?
- In which of the listed sites in the spleen are RBCs that are defected or beyond their normal life span removed from the circulation?
- The arrector pili muscle is connected at one end to the epidermis and at the other end to a sweat gland.
- The subcapsular sinus of a lymph node connects directly to which of the following?
- Thymocytes are transformed into mature naive T-cells in which part of the thymus?
- Choose from the list the correct name for this blood vessel. The boxed in area is shown in more detail in the right image.
- Post-capillary venules with endothelial cells taller than usual are located in which of the following regions of a lymph node?
- Gas exchange and nutrition for melanocytes comes from blood circulating in capillaries located in which of the listed sites?
- The major component of the stroma of a lymph node is composed of which of the following?
- Which of the listed cell types is involved mainly in the humoral mediated immune response?
- Mitosis occurs mostly in which of the following to provide new keratinocytes?
- Which of the following is NOT found in the media of a large artery?
- Old and defective RBCs (erythrocytes / red blood cells) are removed in the sinusoids of the spleen where they are recognized and phagocytized by macrophages located within the sinusoids.
- Tonsils are similar to lymph nodes, EXCEPT that they do not:
- Which of the organs listed do NOT contain lymphatic nodules?