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What are the three types of capillaries that exist in the body?
What are the three types of capillaries that exist in the body?
- Continuous, fenestrated, and sinusoidal (correct)
- Continuous, muscular, and sinusoidal
- Muscular, fenestrated, and sinusoidal
- Continuous, fenestrated, and muscular
What is the composition of a capillary?
What is the composition of a capillary?
- Endothelium, pericytes, and collagen fibers
- Endothelium, smooth muscle, and pericytes
- Endothelium, basal lamina, and smooth muscle
- Endothelium, basal lamina, and pericytes (correct)
What are pericytes?
What are pericytes?
- Specialized cells that form the basal lamina of the capillary
- Pale-stained, relatively undifferentiated cells that are associated with the abluminal aspect of the endothelium (correct)
- Cells that produce collagen and reticular fibers in the capillary
- Cells that control the permeability of the capillary
