Application Question 8 - Skin Problem

 
Application Question 8

    Due Feb 18 by 11:59pm Points 10 Submitting a file upload Available until Mar 26 at 1pm

This assignment was locked Mar 26 at 1pm.

Before we move on to some new topics about the skin, let's take a moment to reflect on our discussions in our last class meeting.  Feel free to look back at your notes or the Zoom recording of the last meeting to refresh your memory!

Some sort of disease, injury, or infection has afflicted someone’s skin! Your job is to figure out what’s going on and show your evidence for conclusion.

Clues
Keratinocyte: Desmosomes disrupted. Sending cytokines to attract WBCs. Keratinocyte Stem Cell: Dividing more rapidly to replace cells. Making complement proteins to seek out microbes. Melanocyte: Momentarily detected increased UV radiation in the skin but then the stimulus went away. Langerhans Cell: Identified numerous targets and am eliminating them. Fibroblast: There’s a need for a small amount of new dermal protein fibers. Dermal Dendritic Cell: No unusual activity requiring my services. Merkel Cell: Sensed a sudden increase in pressure in one area of the skin. Lamellated Corpuscle: No signals out of the ordinary.

Using a spare piece of paper or an index card or post it, create a diagram of the skin based on the clues. All 8 cell types and information from the clues should be represented. Show or label your idea of what the skin problem is!

Take a picture of your diagram and upload it here.

Don't spend too much time on the artistry!  Remember that we started this together during Zoom and I showed some ways to do this with simple lines and abbreviations!

Note: This is intended to be done on paper, not on a computer. If you're using the Canvas phone/table app, you can take a picture of your diagram with your device and upload it directly from there within the Canvas app.  If you're not using the app, you can send the picture to yourself by email and then upload it here on your computer.

Mostly Complete (10 pts): Diagram shows all 8 cell types in their appropriate positions/layers.  To clarify the locations of cells, check the location information in the clues in this sorting activity
Links to an external site..  You might compare those location descriptions to a diagram of the skin's layers, such as this one

Links to an external site..  Diagram shows or mentions a reasonable injury, disease, or infection based on the evidence in the clues.

Partially Complete (6 pts): One or more of the 8 cell types is not shown or appears in the wrong location in diagram.  Or information on a skin problem related to clues is absent.