Connective Tissue Flashcards
Does connective have good or bad blood supply
Good
Can connective reproduce as fast as epithelial
No
What does matrix consist of
Fibers and ground substances
Vary from being what to what?
Rigid to being flexible
What are the 2 major types of cells in connective tissue
Resident cells and wandering cells
What are the 3 types of resident cells?
Mast cells, fibroblast, and macrophages
Connective is produced by what?
Fibroblasts
Why are resident cells called this?
Present in stable numbers
What shape are fibroblasts
Star shaped
What 2 things do mast cells contain?
Heparin and histamine
Macrophages carry out what?
Phagocytosis
What color are collagenous fibers?
White
What color are elastic fibers? And an example of it
Yellow and vocal cords
What are the 7 major types and minor types of connective tissue?
Adipose, loose, fibrous, cartilage, bone , minor- vascular and reticuloendothelial
Why is bone rigid?
Mineral salts in matrix and collagens
Which type of connective tissue lacks direct blood supply
Cartilage
Fibrous is made of what
Many closely packed thick collage nous fibers
Most common and matrix made of very fine collage nous fibers
Hyaline
Flexible and matrix is dense network of elastic fibers
Elastic
Forms blood cells and stores some inorganic salts
Bone
Matrix osteocytes and other structures arranged in a concentric pattern
Bone
Osteocytes are found in what
Lacunae
Muscle tissue
Cardiac has what that is the place where cells meet and join each other
Intercalated disk
Cells called neurons or nerve cells
Nerve tissue
