The teacher wants to demonstrate a typical serous gland to the students in practical exercises focused on the glandular epithelium. However, he does not have much time to think about it, because he has more tasks to complete. Which slide should he choose to show the students typical serous acini?
A 17-year-old female patient has gradually developed symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, dyspnea on exertion and impaired performance over several months. These symptoms gradually worsen over the last year or so. She now comes for intense right hip pain. On further questioning, she indicates frequent epistaxis (nosebleeds) and easy development of bruises. During the physical examination, the physician notes striking pallor of the skin and mucous membranes, tachycardia as well as hepatomegaly (enlargement of the liver) and splenomegaly (enlargement of the spleen). Laboratory findings confirm the presence of anemia and thrombocytopenia. A special finding is the picture of the so-called Erlenmeyer flask deformity of the diaphyses of the femurs. This sign is already suggestive to the physicians and the determination of low activity of the enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase in isolated leukocytes confirms the diagnosis of Gaucher disease. Gaucher disease is an inherited lysosomal storage disease that is caused by a genetic defect in the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase. This enzyme is responsible for the hydrolytic cleavage of glucosylceramide to glucose and ceramide. What is the function of lysosomes? What will their failure lead to in the cell?
Which of the following illustrates the use of information systems to achieve product differentiation?