EXCI 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hyperplasia, Adipocyte, Cell Growth
15 May 2016
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What you need to know to prepare for your midterm. For scammon"s curves, you need to know the trend of growth of each curve, and which tissues or body systems each curve refers to. Studies, principles of measurement and observation and the related subsections (these are dealt with in the next lecture), figure 1. 2. Things that grow and things that do not grow. A degree of increase in size, weight, power. A tumour or other abnormal mass of tissue developed in or on the body. Definition of growth: an increase in size of the body as a whole, also refers to increase in size of specific parts of body. Increase in cell number as a result of dna replication, cell division, and the production of identical cells. Find at least 2 examples of growth by hyperplasia: this process is seen in nerve cells during prenatal life, a cancer grows by cell hyperplasia, growth by hyperplasia.
