Cartilage and Bone Flashcards
What are the fundamental cells of connective tissue fibers?
Fibroblasts
What are the 3 types of connective tissue fibers?
- Collagen fibers
- Reticular Fibers
- Elastic fibers
What are reticular fibers made of?
Type III collagen
What are elastic fibers made of?
Elastin and Fibrillin
What kind of connective tissue is Fascia?
Loose irregular connective tissue
What type of connective tissue makes up a Aponeurosis?
Dense irregular connective tissue
What type of connective tissue is tendons and ligaments?
Dense regular connective tissue
Cartilage characteristics
Avascular
Alymphatic
Aneural
Cartilage cells
Chondroblasts
Chondrocytes
Chondroblasts
- located at periphery of growing cartilage
- oval basophilic cell located in lacuna
- dividing cell that forms matrix
Chondrocytes
-elongated to spherical cell
- glycogen and lipid droplets in older chondrocytes
- fill lacunae in living state, but have artifactual space in fixed tissue
Components of cartilage matrix
- mainly type II collagen fibers (type I in fibrocartilage)
- ground substance: glycosaminoglycans
- aggrecan (formed from binding proteoglycans and hyaluronic acid
Role of aggrecans in cartilage matrix
transport water and electrolytes
Role of proteoglycans in cartilage matrix
Create sieves
Perichondrium
Surrounds cartilage!
Has inner cellular layer and outer fibrous layer of cartilage