Connective Tissue

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Connective Tissue:

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Bind, support, protect, serve as frameworks, fill spaces, store fat, produce blood cells, protect against infection and repair tissue damage.

Have an abundance of extracellular matrix, or intercellular material.

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Major Types?

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Fibroblast

Macrophages

Mast

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Areolar Tissues:

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Forms delicate, thin membranes throughout the body that bind body parts together such as skin and underlying organs

Majority are fibroblasts that separate by gel-like ground substances that contain collagenous and elastic fibers.

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Adipose Tissue:

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Loose connective tissue to store fat.

Found beneath skin, around joints and other internal organs

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Reticular Connective Tissue:

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Composed of thin, collagenous fibers in a 3-D Network

Helps to provide framework of certain internal organs.

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Dense C. Tissue:

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Consist of densely packed collagenous fibers and very strong but lack good blood supply.

Found in parts of tendons and ligaments

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Cartilage:

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Rigid connective tissue that provide supportive framework for many structures. Lack a vascular system and heals slow

Lie withing lacunae in the gel-like fluid matrix

Elastic cartiliage & Fibrocartilage,

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Bone:

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Most rigid connective tissue. Support body, protects, forms muscle attachments and is the site for blood cell formation.

Bone Cells, Osteocytes, lie within lacunae

Very good blood supply, rapid recovery

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Types of Membranes:

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Serous. Mucous. Cutaneous. & Synovial

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Muscle Tissue:

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Fibers can contract and consist of 3 types:

Skeletal, Smooth and Cardiac

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Skeletal M. Tissue:

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Attached to bone, controlled by conscious effort

Long and cylindrical, striated, have many nuclei and contract from nervous impulse.

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Smooth M. Tissue

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Lacks striations and consists of spindle-shaped cells. Involuntary muscles found in walls of internal organs.

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Cardiac M. Tissue

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Found only in the heart and consists of branching fibers that connected to each other with intercalated discs.

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Nervous Tissues:

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Found in Brain, Spinal Cord and Nerves.

Conducts nervous impulses while helper cells, or neuroglia.