Connective Tissue Flashcards
Hyaline and elastic cartilage contains what type of collagen?
Type 2
Macrophages are derived from what blood cell?
Monocytes
Cart wheel nucleus is typical and often basophilic ganules?
Mast cells
What connective tissue fiber are arygrophilic?
Reticular fibers
What cooncetive b
Tissue cell has a singlet appearance?
Adipocyte
What is the undufferentiated cell that is the stem cell for connective tissue?
Mesenchymal cell
What does plasma produce?
Antibodies
What cell is responsible for the synthesis, maintenance and turn over of extra cellular matrix
Fibroblast
What is the precursor of collagen?
Tropocollagen
Fibrocytes are is easly recognizable in what type of connective tissue?
DCT
What type of collagen has a highest amount of sugar groups?
Type 3
The wall of what structure contains many elastic fiber arrange in the lamellar fashion?
Elastic artery
Histocyte are form what WBC?
Monocytes
What type of cell is multi ocular and commonly found in fetuses?
Brown fat
What cell synthesis elastin?
Fibroblast
What type of collagen is most abundant in skin, tendon, ligaments and bone?
Type 1
What type of fiber contains oxytalan?
Elastic fiber
Mucus CT is also called
Whartons jelly
What connective tissue fiber forms the framework for lymph nodes
Reticular fibers
What common CT cell has a football or pencil shaped structure?
Fibrocyte
Most cell are activated by the binding of what immunoglobulin?
IgE
What type of fiber stains well with silver stains but not with H&E?
Reticular fibers
What CT cells produce collagen, elastin and ground sunstance?
Fibroblast
The basal lamina of the epidermis contains what type of collagen?
Type 4
What type of primitive embryonic tissue is derived from both mesoderm and neuroectoderm?
Mesenchyme
What type of cartilage contains collagen type 2
Hyaline cartilage
What part of CT contains glycoproteins, hyaluronic acid and proteoglycans?
Ground substance
Ligaments are composed of what type of CT?
DCT regular
What type of collagen is the most abundant in the body?
Type 1
