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⚫ Zonula adherens
⚫ Fascia adherens ⚫ Found in the cells lining the upper respiratory tract
⚫ Concerned with cell to cell communication ⚫ Contains chons , lipids and cho
⚫ Usually seen in epithelial , muscular and nervous ⚫ 1. Organelles – living substances performing definite
tissue or specific functions
⚫ Greatly increase the cell surface because of their ⚫ Synthesize atp – energy source of the cell
inward projections
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS OF MITOCHONDRIA
MICROVILLI
⚫ 1. Accumulation of calcium
⚫ Non-motile cellular extensions which serves to
⚫ 2. Synthesis of nucleic acids and chons
increase the absorptive surface of cells
⚫ 3. Oxidation of fatty acids
⚫ Fascilitate movements and passage of substances in
between other cells and interstitial components ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM
⚫ Striated borders – fd. In the absorptive cells of the ⚫ Complex network of paired membranes , saccules ,
intestinal epithelium vacuoles and tubules with flattened cisternae
⚫ 1. In striated muscles , it is concernedwith the ⚫ Center of activities associated with cell division
release and recapture of calcium ions during
⚫ Self duplicating organelles and are prominent in
contraction and relaxation of muscles
mitotic cell division
⚫ 2 .synthesis of steroid hormones in some endocrine
FUNCTIONS OF CENTRIOLES
glds.
⚫ 1. SERVES AS BASAL BODIES AND SITES OF
⚫ 3. Detoxification of toxic substances especially in the
EPITHELIAL CILIA
liver
⚫ 2. DETERMINE THE POLARITY OF THE CELLS
⚫ 4. Lipid and cholesterol metabolism in the liver
PEROXISOMES
⚫ 5.formation of hcl in the parietal cells of stomach
⚫ Microbodies
GOLGI COMPLEX
⚫ Producing hydrogen peroxide
⚫ Dictyosomes
⚫ Abundant in the liver , kidneys , bronchioles and
⚫ Packaging area of the cell
odontoblast
⚫ Accumulate and concentrate the secretory products
FILAMENTS
of the cell
⚫ 1. Microfilaments – contractile filaments
⚫ Site of sulfation
⚫ - actin and myosin filament in skeletal
CONSISTS OF GOLGI APPARATUS
muscles
⚫ Saccules
⚫ 2. Intermediate filaments – cytoskeleton in epithelial
⚫ Vesicles tissue