CONNECTIVE TISSUE

• adipose tissue that is distributed throughout the body

  white adipose tissue
• three fundamental components of connective tissue

  cells, fibers, and ground substance\
• what are the three fibers in connective tissue

  collagen, elastic fibers, and reticular fibers
• considered to be the most abundant type of fiber

  collagen
• type of collagen that is mesh like found in basal lamina of basement membrane

  type IV
• a type of collagen that is hyaline and elastic cartilage

  type II
• a type of collagen that is reticular and forms meshwork in liver, lymph node, spleen and hemopoietic

  type III
• a type of collagen that is fibrous supporting tissue such as skin, tendons, ligaments, and bone

  type I
• fiber in CT that is thin, dark, long, branched, hair-like strandscomposed of elastin and fibrillin

  Elastic fibers
• fiber in CT that give the tissue the ability to distent and recoil that is abundant in large arteries and dermis

  elastic fibers
• fiber in CT that is very thin and sponge-like networks that suppords scaffolding for cells and other fibers in a tissue

  Reticular Fibers
• Viscous, gel like substance with high watercontent; appears as clear, non staining areas.

  ground substance
• considered to be the main glycosaminoglycan

  hyaluronic acid
• gel-like substanxe that anchor fibers and cells in repective areas of the tissue

  ground substance
• three adhesive glycoproteins

  fibronectine, integrins, and laminin
• dominant and highly active cell that produce fibers, synthesize collagen,reticular, and elastic fibers, as well as carbohydrates

  fibroblast
• location of fibroblast

  close to fibers
• location of plasma cells

  mucosal lamina propria
• location of adipose cells

  adipose connective tissue
• location of large lymphocyte

  site of chronic inflammation
• location of small lymphocyte

  site of chronic inflammation
• location of fibrocyte

  close to mature fibers
• location of eosinophils

  circulate in blood
• location of neutrophils

  site of acute inflammation
• oval cells with eccentric "clock face" nuclei that produce antibodies

  plasma cells
• spherical cells with large lipid droplets that store lipids, cushion and insulate nearby structures

  adipose cells
• has great amount of cytoplasm that has major role in adaptive response

  large lymphocyte
• small oval cells and and has major role in adaptive response

  small lymphocyte
• more mature, smaller spindleshaped cell that maintain fibers

  fibrocyte
• bilobed nuclei and are mediators of allergic and response and parasitic infection

  eosinophils
• a large blood cell and nuclei with three to four lobes and functions for acute inflammatory response

  neutrophils
• phagocytes that ingest foreign matter in the connective tissue

  macrophage
• phagocytes that ingest foreign matter in the connective tissue

  Histiocytes
• macrophage in the liver

  Kupfer cells
• macrophage in bone

  osteoclasts
• mcrophage in central nervous system


  microglia
• ovoid with a small, centrally placed nucleus that produce and secrete inflammatory mediators such as histamine

  mast cell
• classification of connective tissue

  loose, dense, and specialized
• classification of loose connective tissue

  areolar, adipose, and reticular
• classification of dense CT

  dense regulat and dense irregular