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Connective Tissues
Chapter 6 - collagen etc.
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Anatomy
Graduate
07/30/2009

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Term
Collagen Type I

Location
Definition
Loc: Skin, bone, tendon, ligaments, dentin, sclera, fascia, organ capsules
Term
Collagen Type I

Fxn
Definition
Provides resistance to force, tension, and stretch
Term
Collagen Type II

Loc
Definition
Loc: Cartilage (hyaline and elastic) , notochord, and intervertebral disk
Term
Collagen Type II

Fxn
Definition
resistance to intermittent pressure
Term
Collagen Type III

Loc
Definition
Loose Connective Tissue and Organs (uterus, liver,spleen,kidney, lung, etc) smooth muscle, endonerium, blood vessels, and fetal skin
Term
Collagen Type III

Fxn
Definition
Forms reticular fibers, arranged as a loose meshwork of thin fibers, provides support scaffold for specialized cells of organs and blood vessels
Term
Collagen Type IV

Loc
Definition
Basal Laminae of epithelia, kidney glomeruli, lens capsule
Term
Collagen Type IV

Fxn
Definition
Provides support & Filtration barier
Term
Collagen Type VII

Loc
Definition
anchoring fibrils of skin, eye, uterus, and esophagus
Term
Collagen Type VII

Fxn
Definition
Secures Basil Lamina to connective tissue fibers
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Collagen Type X

Loc
Definition
produced by chondrocytes in the zone of hypertrophy of normal growth plate
Term
Collagen Type X

Fxn
Definition
contrib. to Bone Mineralization proc. by forming hexagonal lattices necess. to arrange type II,IX, and XI collage w/in cartilage
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