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Connective Tissue

7 - Functions

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  1. Enclosing and seperating other tissues
  2. Connecting tissues to one another
  3. Supporting and moving parts of the body
  4. Storing compounds
  5. Cushioning and insulating
  6. Transporting
  7. Protecting
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What are the 3 cell types that make up connective Tissue?

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Blasts - create the matrix

Cytes - maintain it

Clasts - break it down for remodeling

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What are the connective tissue cells that form the framework of the body?

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Bone cells

Cartilage cells

Fibrous tissue cells

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What are the bone cells called?

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Osteoblasts - form the bone

Osteocytes - maintain it

Osteoclasts - break it down

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What are the cartilage cells called?

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Chondroblasts - form cartilage

Chondrocytes - maintain it

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What are the fibrous tissue cells called?

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Fibroblasts - form fibrous connective tissue

Fibrocytes - maintain it

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Adipocytes aka adipose

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Loose connective Tissue

contain a large amount of lipid. The lipid pushes the rest of the cell contents to the periphery so that each cell appears to contain a large centrally located lipid droplet

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Mast cells

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Play an important role in inflamination. They contain chemicals that are released in response to injury such as trauma and infection

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White blood cells

AKA Leukocytes

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continuously move from blood vessels to connective tissue (rate increases dramatically in response to injury or infection)

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Macrophages

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are large, phagocytic cells found in some connective tissues

They are derived from a type of white blood cell. They are either fixed or wandering.

They play a major role in protecting against infections

Eat bacteria and foreign substances and dead cells.

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Platelets

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fragments of hemopoietic cells containing enzymes and special proteins that function in teh clotting process to reduce bleeding from a wound

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Undifferentiated Mesenchymal cells

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Type of adult stem cell that persist in connective tissue - have the potential to form multiple cell types

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What are the 3 major components of connective tissue ECM?

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Protein fibers (Collagen, reticular, elastic fibers)

Ground substance

Fluid

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What are the 3 types of protein fibers of the ECM?

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Collagen

Reticular

Elastic

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Collagen fibers

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Consist of the protein collagen.

Most abundant protein in body

Very stong and flexible but not very elastic

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Reticular fibers

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very short, thin fibers that branch to form a network - MESH

Fill spaces between tissues and organs

*The reticular connective tissues are found in the kidney, the spleen, lymph nodes, and bone marrow. Cradle and suuport organs

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Elastic fibers

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consist of the protein elastin

has the ability to return to its orignal shape after being stretched or compressed

*Found in SKIN lUNGS and BLOOD VESSEL wall

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Ground substance of the matrix & two major components

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gel like mixture of nonfibrous molecules

Hyaluronic acid & proteoglucycans

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Hyaluronic acid

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long unbranched polysaccharide chain composed of repeating disaccharide units

*Good lubricant for joint cavities

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Proteoglycan monomer

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large molecule that consists of a protein core attached to many long polysaccharides

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Adhesive molecules

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ground substance that hold the proteoglycan aggresgates together as well as attache them to cells fo the tissue

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What is the ground substance of Cartilage, bone and fibrous connective tissue?

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Chondronectin

osteonectin

fibronectin

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Mesenchyme

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Embryonic connective tissue from which connective as well as other tissues arise

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Mucous connective Tissue

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Embryonic connective tissue - unbilical cord

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What are the 2 types of Embryonic connective tissues

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Mesenchyme & Mucous connective Tissue

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What are the 3 types of adult connective Tissue?

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Connective Tissue Proper

Supporting connecting tissue

Fluid connecting tissue

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Loose connective Tissue

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Consists of a relatively few protein fibers that form a lacy network, with numerous spaces filled with ground substance and fluid

Adipose, Reticular, Areolar

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What are the 3 types of loose connective tissue?

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Areolar, adipose and reticular

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Areolar Tissue

Type of tissue?

Cells?

Ground substance/fibers?

Locations?

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Loose Connective Tissue

CELLS: Fibroblasts, macrophages, mast cells, white blood cells

Ground Substance: Elastin and collagen fibers

Found: Widely distributed throughout the body, substance on which epithelial tissue rests, packing between glands, muscles and nerves

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Adipose tissue

Type of tissue?

Cells?

Ground substance/fibers?

Locations?

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Loose connective Tissue

Cells: Consists of adipocytes which contain a large amount of lipids

Ground subtance: very little ground subatnce of glycoproteins and proteoglycans

Functions as an insulator, a protective tissue and a site of energy storage

Found: In subcutaneous areas, around kidneys and attached to surface of the colon

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Yellow adipose tissue

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the most abundant

appears white at birth but turns yellow with age

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Brown adipose

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found in specific areas of the body such as armpits, neck and near kidneys

Plays a role in regulating body temp in newborns and metabolism in adults

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Reticular Tissue

Type of tissue?

Cells?

Ground substance/fibers?

Locations?

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Loose connective tissue

Cells: fibroblasts, leukocytes

Ground substance: Reticular fibers

forms the framework for lympatic tissue,such as spleen and lymph nodes

Found: Within spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow

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Dense connective Tissue

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has a relatively large number of protein fibers which form thick bundles and fill nearly all the extracelluar space

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What are the 2 subgroups of dense connective tissue?

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Regular and irregular

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Dense regular connective Tissue

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has protein fibers in the ECM that are oriented predominantly in one direction

Dense regular collagenous connective tissue

Dense regular elastic connective tissue

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Dense regular collagenous connective tissue

Matrix composed of?

Running in same or different directions?

Function:

Found:

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Matrix composed of collagen fibers

Running somewhat in same direction

Function: able to withstand great pulling forces in the direction of fibers

Found: tendons

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Dense regular elastic connective tissue

Matrix composed of?

Running in same or different directions?

Function:

Found:

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consists of parallel bundles of collegan fibers and abundant elastic fibers

same direction

Function: Able to stretch and recoil like rubber band, strength in direction of fiber

Found: Vocal folds & elastic ligaments between vertebrae

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Dense irregular connective tissue

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contains protein fibers arramged as a meshwork of randomly oriented fibers

Dense irregular collagenous connective tissue

Dense irregular elastic connective tissue

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Dense irregular collagenous connective tissue

Matrix composed of?

Running in same or different directions?

Function:

Found:

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Matrix composed of collagen fibers that run in all directions

in different directions

Function: Strength capable of stretching in all directions

Found: Most of dermis, organ capsules

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Dense irregular elastic connective tissue

Matrix composed of?

Running in same or different directions?

Function:

Found:

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Matrix composed of bundles and sheets of collagenous and elastic fibers

different directions

Functions: Capable of strength, stretching in many directions

Found: Elastic arteries

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Cartilage

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Composed of cartilage cells within an extensive and relatively rigid matrix.

*Surface of nearly all cartilage is surrounded by a layer of dense irregular connective tissue called perichondrium

Hyaline cartilage

Fibro cartilage

Elastic cartilage

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Lucunae

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Spaces in which cartilage cells are located

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What are the 3 types of cartilage?

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Hyaline cartilage

Fibrocartilage

Elastic cartilage

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Hyaline cartilage

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has a large amount of both collagen fibers and proteoglycans.

Collegan fibers are evenly dispursed throughout the ground substance and hyaline cartilage in joint has a very smooth surface

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Fibrocartilage

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more collagen fibers than protepglycans

much thick bundles of collagen fibers dispursed throughout matrix

Slightly compressable and very tough

*Knee, jaw

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Elastic cartilage

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Has numerous elastic fibers in addition to collagen adn preteoglycans

Found in external ears

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Bone

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hard connective tissue that consists of living cells and mineralized matrix

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What are the 2 types of bones?

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Spongy bone and Compact bone

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Spongy bone

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has spaced between the trabeculae or plates of bone and resembles a sponge

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Compact bone

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more solid. almost no space between many thin layers or lamella

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Blood

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A fluid connective tissue

*Matrix is produced by other cells rather than by blood cells

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Hemopoietic Tissue

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Tissue forms blood cells

in adults found in bone marrow

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What are the 4 categories of connective tissue?

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Proper

Blood

Bone

Cartilage

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What are the cell types and ground substance of Arerolar connective tissue?

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Cell types: Fibroblasts, macrophages, lympocytes, mast cells

fiber types/ground substances: Collagen, elastic, reticular

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