Chapter 4 Connectice Tissue Flashcards
How are connective tissue cells spaced?
Usually further apart and make a gory protein sugar that strengthens the tissue. ( gel)
What does the gel do in connective tissues
Usually there to strengthen tissue and hold water
Some connective tissues make gel and what else?
Fibers. Girls and divers are made by the cell
If the cell is making a lot of gel and fibers and gets surrounded, the cell will make a
Lacks a salt water lake that keeps the cell safe and keep it moist
What is the ground substance
The things on the ground next to the cell
No fibers
Matrix
The ground substance plus the fibers. Made up of gel and fibers
Cyte means
Cell
Adipose CT has what cells
Adipocytes ( fat cells
Blood CT has what cells
Erythrocytes and leukocytes
Cartilage CT has which cells?
Chondroblasts
Which male fibers and gel
Blast
Immature cell that can develop into a cyte
Blasts cells make
Fibers
Collagen fibers
Strongest and most common. Made up of collagen
Reticular fibers
Also collagen but much thinner and highly branched
Elastic fibers
Made up of elastic