Tissue Overview Flashcards
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Types of tissues
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Epithelial, Connective, Cardiac & Nervous tissue
2
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Epithelial basics
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-lines surfaces of body cavities, tubes]
- role in; tramsport, diffusion & secretion
3
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Connective Basics
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-Basic supportive tissue
- Structural, Insulator & Protective
4
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Nervous Basics
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- Communication
- Interconnected networks allowing communication from brain and SC to other parts
5
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Muscel basics
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-Generate motile forces through contraction
- skeletal, Smooth & Cardiac
6
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The Extracellularfr Matrix epithelial vs connective
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-epithelial is sheets of cells with little ECM
- Connective is lots of ECM with comparatively few cells
7
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Tissues are composed of…
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Cells and Extracellular Matrix; made up from secreted from then cells making scaffolding e.g. ECM fibres
8
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what determines cell function and forms junctions with cells
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The Extracellular Matrix
