Connective Tissue Terms

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Protects and supports the body and its organs. Various types bind organs together, store energy reserves as fat, and help provide the body with immunity and disease-causing organization

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Connective Tissue

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Material located between its widely spread cells; consists of protein fibers and ground substance (materials between the cells and fibers)

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Extracellular Matrix

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Flat cells that mgrate through connective tissue secreting fibers; cells that make collagen fibers

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Fibroblasts

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Capable of eating bacteria and cellular debris by phagocytosis

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Macrophages

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Secrete antibodies, proteins that attack or neutralize foreign substances in the body. For immune system

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Plasma Cells

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Abundant alongside blood vessels; produce histamine which dialates small blood vessels during inflammation and kills bacteria

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Mast Cells

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fat cells that store triglycerides(fats); found deep in the skin around the heart and kidney

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Adipocytes

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Migrate from blood into connective tissue

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Leukocytes

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Component of connective tissue between cells and fibers; supports cells, binds them together, stores water, and provides a medium for exchange of substances between the blood and cells

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Ground substance

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slippery substance that binds cells together, lubricates joints, and helps maintain the shape of eyeballs

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Hyaluronic Acid

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Binds to both collagen fibers and ground substance, linking them together

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Fibronectin

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What are the three types of fibers in the extracellular matrix between the cells?

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Collagen, elastin, and reticular

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Allows tissue flexibility; very strong and resist tension, but are not stiff; often occur in parallel bundles

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Collagen fibers

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Branch and join together to form a fibrous network in connective tissue; can be stretched up to 150% of their relaxed length without breaking, work like rubberbands. Found in skin, blood vessels, and lung tissue

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Elastic fibers

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Provide support in numerous types of mature connective tissue(loose connective, dense connective, cartilage, bone tissue, liquid connective)

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Reticular tissue

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mature cell

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Chondrocyte

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Growth within the tissue

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Interstitial growth

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Growth in the outer surface of the tissue

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Appositional growth

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lines a body cavity that opens directly to the exterior; line the entire digestive, respiratory, and reproductive tracts, and most of the urinary

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Mucous membrane

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lines a body cavity that DOES NOT open directly to the exterior; covers organs that are within the cavity

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Serous membrane

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covers the entire surface of the body; consists of the epidermis and the dermis

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Cutaneous membrane

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lines the cavities of freely movable joints; lack an epithelium

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Synovial membranes

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lubricates and nourishes cartilage covering the bones at movable joints and contains macrophages that remove microbes and debris from the joint cavity

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Synovial fluid

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Composed of cells specialized for contraction and generation of force. In the process, it generates heat that warms the body. Skeletal, cardiac, smooth

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Muscular tissue. See pg. 134-135 for pictures