Connective Tissue Flashcards
what provides the supportive and connective famework (or stroma( for all tissues of the body
connective tissue
What is connective tissue formed by?
cells and ECM
Is connective tissue vascular or avascular?
Connective tissue is directly supplied by blood and lymphatic vesselsI
What is ECM made out of ?
mixture of collagens, noncollagenous glycoproteins, and proteoglycans surrounding connective tissue
What is the role of connective tissue in the body?
Mechanical role: supporting and tissue repair Defensive role: inflammation (first reaction of defense) and immune responses Metaboliclly: Energy storage (adipose tissue) Template for bone formation: cartilage
What produces CT and ECM?
fibroblast
What is chondroblast?
a type of fibroblast that produces cartiledge
What are the three major groups of connective Tissue?
Embryonic Adult Special
Describe Embryonic CT
hydrophilic mainly ECM Whartons Jelly
Describe Adult CT
Loose Dense (regular and irregular) *structural diversity: the proportion of cells to fibers and ECM varies from tissue to tissue) therefore LooseCT and Dense CT
Describe Special Connective Tissue
Adipose Tissue Bone Tissue Cartiledge Hematopoeitic Tissue (bone marrow, reticular)
What are the major components of CT?
Fibers:Collagen, Elastic, Reticular Fibers Cells: resident (fibroblast), immagrant cells ECM ground substance):collagen, non-collagenous proteins and proteoglycans(trap water)
Fibroblast make
connective tissue fibers and ECM
Reticular CT
provide delicate meshwork to allow passage of cells and fluid
Elastic CT
provides elasticity (ligaments of vertebral column and wall of aorta)
How is CT classified?
- proportion of cells, fibers, and ECM : dense or loose 2. Organization of fibers: regular or irregular
Embryonic CT
loose connective tissue covered by amnion the major component is hydrophilic ECM has alot of proteoglycans
What type of consistency does embryonic CT have?
jelly like…Whartons Jelly (mucoid CT)
Where is embryonic Connective Tissue Found?
Umbilical Cord Pulp of developing tooth
Loose CT
Has MORE CELLS than collagen fibers
What type of cells do fibroblast have ?
oval nucleur shape
Where is loose CT found?
mucosa and submucosa and surrounding blood vessels, nerves and muscles
Dense connective Tissues
MORE COLLAGEN FIBERS than cells dense regular Ct ( tendons, ligaments, cornea) dense irregular CT( reticular fibers and elastic fibers)
Metachromasia
change in color of staining shift in color of a dye from blue to purple DENSE CONNECTIVE
Types of Fibers and cells in Loose Connective Tissue
Fibers: abundant elastic fibers and collagen bundles embedded in ECM Cells: fibroblast-active cell (fibrocyte-not so active cell), mast cells, machrophages and blood capillaries
Where is Dense irregular CT found?
dermis (stratified squamous epithelium) submucosa of digestive tube more COLLAGEN FIBERS than cells
What are the cells present in Dense irregular CT?
Sparse fibroblast (separated by collagen bundles), mast cells, and marcphages
how to tell if dense irregular CT is making collagen?
if the nucleus is big cell is making collagen from the fibroblast when the nuclus is smaller then usual the cell is not making collagen (fibrocytes)
Describe dense regular connective tissue
regularly arranged collagen bundles compressed oval nucleus of the fibrocyte
What are the four major cell components of CT?
fibroblast (resident cells) macrophages mast cell plasma cell
What type of tissue is arygophilic
Reticular Tissue (can be identified ins torma of lymphatic nodule after being saturated with silver salts)
What type of tissue is RETICULAR CT?
adult dense irregular CT which reticular fibers predominate thing and branching strucutures
What is reticular tissue characteristic of?
lymphatic tissues
Reticular fibers are synthesized by?
fibroblast (reticular cells)
Reticular fibers form meshwork in which
lymphoid cells are embbeddded
Argrophilia
affinity for silver
Reticular tissue is what type of collagen?
type III
Reticular tissue is seen in….
lymphatic tissue and in bone marrow
Elastic Fibers are produced by
fibroblast and smooth muscle fibers
What type of CT is elastic?
adult dense irregular CT elastic fibers predominate and there is NO COLLAGEN!
Elastic tissue is characteristic of?
large blood vessels and ligaments
DEscribe the elastic fibers found in the wall of a blood vessel?
They are synthesized by smooth muscle cells and form discontinuous and concentric arrangements
What appear as wavy bands?
elastic tissue
Fibroblast synthesize and secrete
(ECM+COLLAGEN) BASIC SPECIFIC proteoglycans glycoproteins collagens (5 types) elastin fibronectin (glycoprotein) heparan sulfate proteoglycan
What do fibroblast synthesize that are part of the basement membrane?
fibronectin heparan sulfate
Collagen is a compondent of
collagen and the reticular fibers
What type of collagen is seen in the basal lamina?
type IV
What are the types of fibroblast?
reticular cells osteoblast (bone) chondroblast (cartilage) odontoblast (teeth)
Are reticular fibers PAS Positive?
reticular fibers and collagens in general are glycoproteins and therefore pas positive
Type I collagen
Fibrocartilage fibrillar Tendon, bone,dentin and dermis
Type II collagen
fibrillar ( thinner than type 1) Cartilage: hyaline and elastic
Type III
fibrillar lymphoid tissue Reticular collagen-> precollagen reticular lamina wound healing (replaced by type I) argyrophillic
Type IV
layers basal lamina binds to laminin does not form bundles
Type V
fibrillar amnion and chorion (in fetus) muscle and tendon sheaths doesnt form banded fibrils
Name the fibrillar collagen(s)?
Types: I, II, III, V
Name the non-fibrillar collagen(s)?
Type IV
Synthesis of Collagen Steps
In the RER 1. synthesis of precollagen and procollagen (triple helical arrangement of procollagen) 2. hydroxylation of lysine and proline by lysyl hydroxylase occurs in procollagen (requires vitamin c_scurvy) 3. glycosylation and disulfide bond formation Golgi apparatus 5packing and secretion of hydroxylated pro collagen Outside the cell 6.procollagen peptidase removes non helical end of procollagen and it becomes tropocollagen 7. Self-aggregation of tropocollagen molecule leads to formation of collagen fibrils (staggered array) 8. cross linking of collagen fibrils to form collagen fibers (FACIT COLLAGEN) 9. collagen bundle formation by proteoglycans and other glycoproteins
FACIT
fibril associated collagens with interrupted helices
lysl oxidase
cross links tropocollagen molecules stabilize staggered arangment of collagen fibrils to form fibers
Ethers Danlos Syndrome
hyperelasticty of skin and hypermobility of joints (dislocation) -defects in synthesis of procollagen collagen -type 1 collagen defect -mutations in procollagen peptidase or lysyl hydroxylase -cant form collagen fibers -defects in blood vessels and internal organs
procollagen peptidase
forms tropocollagen
lysyl hydroxylase
hydroxylation of lysine and proline needs vitamin c
Elastic Fibers is made in
RER and Golgi apparatus
Assembly of Elastin Fibers
RER 1. synthesis of 3 components of elastic fibers (fibulin 1, fibrillins 1 &2, tropoelastin) becomes proelastin Golgi proelastin is packaged and secreted into the extracellular space where it turns into tropoelastin ( with desmosine attached) Extracellular Space Assembly of fibulin 1, fibrillins and tropoelastin to produce elastic fibers
Elastic Fibers are made by
fibroblast and smooth muscle cells
Fibrillin 1
forcing bearing structural support