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cells that produce fiber! |
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Motile phagocytic cells
Function: Clear foreign particles from tissues. Also part of the immune system and important in inflamation |
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Large cells packed with granules, usually located near blood vessels.
Function: Release substances that help prevent blood clotting and promote the inflammatory response |
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| Move into connective tissue during the inflammation response |
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Found in the lacunae of cartilage (chondrocytes) and bone (osteocytes)
Function: Synthesis and maintenance of cartilage and bone |
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Collagenous fibers
(white fibers) |
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fibers of collagen with great tensile strength that form networks.
Functions: From strong structures such as ligaments, reinforce connective tissue.
"Reticular fibers" form supportive networks in various organs. |
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Elastic fibers
(yellow fibers) |
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Composed of elastin (associated with the protein fibrillin) thinner than collagen fibers.
Function in structures in structures subject to stretch (such as the yellow ligaments between vertebrae) |
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Loose Connective Tissue
(areolar connective tissue) |
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Composed of both collagenous and elastic fibers randomly dispersed in the matrix. Numerous fibroblasts are present.
Both flexibility and strength. It binds tissues together yet allows flexibility and elasticity. It is found surrounding blood vessels and nerves, muscle groups, and binding skin to underlying muscles. |
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No fiber, made up adipocyte cell
Store tryglycerides (fat cells) - represent the body's most important energy resourse
(fills spaces, cushions and holds organs in place, acts as a shock absorber, insulates, and give shape.) |
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| Dense Regular Connective Tissue |
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| Densely packed and arranged parallel to the direction of the force. Interspersed among the collagen fibers are elastin fibers. Tissue has a poor blood supply that makes the healing process slow. |
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| Dense regular tissue: Tendons |
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| attach muscle muscle to bone |
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| Dense Regular tissue: ligaments |
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| Dense Regular tissue: Aponeuroses |
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| sheet-like tendons connecting one muscle with another or with bone |
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| Dense Irregular connective tissue |
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interwoven in three dimensions like a basket weave. Provides strength in all different directions.
locations: dermis of skin, sheaths covering muscles, nerves, the adventitia of blood vessels. Capsules, membrane covering cartilage (perichondrium) and bone (presidium) |
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| Elastic Connective tissue |
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made by protein elastin. This tissue can be stretched to about one and a half times.
Present in the walls of arteries, in the trachea and lungs, in the larynx, and between adjacent vertebrae |
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| Reticular Connective Tissue |
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| Made up of a network of thin collagen fibers. It provides a supporting framework for a number of organs: liver, spleen, and lymph nodes |
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contains collagen and elastic fibers.
is avascular (contains no blood vessels. Nutrients are supplied from blood vessels in the perichondrium, a layer of dense irregular connective tissue that covers its surface. |
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| Produce collagen and elastic fibers in cartilage |
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cavities in the cartilage matrix were chondrocytes are present.
(opening in the cartilage ground substance) |
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softest and most abundant cartilage
ends of bones (articular cartilage), in the nose, larynx, trachea, ribs and respiratory tubes.
It is comprised of a matrix containing collagenous fibers, with chondrocytes. |
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| Very similar to hyaline cartilage except that elastic fibers predominate. this tissue can be found in the larynx and in the ear flaps |
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has tensile strength, weight-bearing properties, and is resistant to stretch and compression. Contain alot of collagenous fibers
Found in area of the body where it can act as a shock absorber. Pads of fibrocartilage are found between the vertebrae and in joints such as the knee |
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substance that has tensile strength and resistance to compression. Its physical properties are attributable to the presence of calcium phosphate in the matrix. Some calcium carbonate is also present.
Bone serves for support and protection (ribs and the skull). Long bones also form levers on which muscles can act. |
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| a circular unit of compact (cortical) bone |
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| Haversian (osteonic, central) canal |
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center of an osteon,
contains blood vessels and nerve fibers. |
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| Surround the Haversian canal, rather like the rings of a tree. layers of matrix |
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| spaces between lamellae which house the osteocytes. |
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| canals in which osteocytes are in contact with each other |
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