Histology NBME Review Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers

What prevents the intercellular passage of ions from the luminal surface to the lamina propria of the intestine? Correct Answer Tight Junctions/ Zonulae Occludens What type of epithelial cells are in the intestine? Correct Answer Simple columnar What is located in your sertoli cells that forms the blood testis barrier? Correct Answer Tight Junctions / Zonulae Occludens What is overdistended and destroyed in emphysema? Correct Answer Alveolar ducts What biogenic amine is diurnally secreted in pinealocytes? Correct Answer Melatonin Where does the reabsorption of glucose in the kidneys take place? Correct Answer Proximal Convoluted Tubules In the renal cortex, what is the labyrinth of capillaries that carry resorbed glucose out of the kidney? Correct Answer Vasa Recta Where does the Vasa Recta arise from? Correct Answer Efferent arterioles of the juxtamedullary nephrons What does the proliferations of the endometrium depend on? (the follicular phase) Correct Answer Estrogen What hormone stimulates the secretory phase of the menstrual cycle? Correct Answer Progesterone What is found exclusively in the basal compartment of seminiferous tubules? Correct Answer Spermatagonia What is a marker for when cells differentiate into epidermal epithelial tissue? Correct Answer Keratin 2 days after an overdose of barbiturates, what will show the greatest increase in hepatocytes? Correct Answer Smooth endoplasmic reticulum What is abundant in your hepatocytes? Correct Answer RER and SER Where are glycoproteins found during the final stage of secretory glycoprotein formation? (before exocytosis) Correct Answer Trans golgi complex