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Loose connective tissue (general features)
Many cells, few fibers
Loose CT (location)
Always found beneath epithelial tissues
Loose CT (function)
Carry capillaries

Provides nutrients to other tissues
Loose CT (structure)
Type I collagen and elastic fibers
Dense CT (general features)
Many fibers, few cells
Irregular CT (location)
Found in reticular dermis
Irregular CT (structure)
Type I collagen in complex pattern
Regular CT (location)
Tendons and ligaments
Regular CT (structure)
Most cells are fibroblasts

Type I collagen in parallel and linear fashion
Elastic CT (location)
Fibers of elastin

Large arteries close to heart
Elastic fibers (microscopy)
Yellowish appearance
Reticular CT (structure)
Type III collagen

Branching network of collagen
Reticular CT (function)
Scaffolding for dividing and developing cells
White fat (structure and function)
Large adipocytes

Protective of fragile organs
White fat (appearance)
Empty, because fat is removed during preparation
Brown fat (structure and function)
Smaller than white fat

Heat for animals

Highly vascularized
Indigenous CT cells (4)
Primitive mesenchymal cell

Fibroblasts

Myofibroblasts

Adipocyte
Immigrant cells of CT
Mast cells

Macrophages

Plasma cells

Lymphocytes

Granulocytes
Fibroblasts (function)
Secrete the ECM of CT

Weakly phagocytic

Most common CT cell
Mast cells (appearance)
Eosinophilic granules

Clustered around blood vessels
Mast cells (function)
Can attract eosinophils

Release IgA
Macrophage (function)
Second most common cell in CT

Process and present antigens
Macrophages (appearance)
Large and irregular granules
Plasma cell (function)
Produce large quantities of specific Ig
Plasma cell (microscopy)
Clock face, round nucleus

Highly basophilic

Prominent golgi

Rare in normal CT
Collagen fibers (appearance)
Made of many collagen fibrils
Collagen (in tendons)
Have fibropositors that deposit the parallel arrays of fibroblasts
Fibronectin
Mediates attachment of fibroblasts to collagen cells