Connective Tissue

• Connective Tissues

  General Characteristics:

  = • Most abundant tissue in your body, found throughout

  = • Binds structures together

  = • Provides support, protection, framework, fills space, stores fat

  = • Produces blood cells, fights infection, and helps repair tissue.
• 4 Common Types of Cells

  = Mast cells (prevents blood clots)

  = Macrophages (phagocytic ) Big Eater

  = Fibroblasts (most abundant, produce fibers)

  = Fat Cells (adipose cells)
• Loose Connective Tissue

  AREOLAR 


  = • binds skin to underlying organs and organs to organs, space between muscles, throughout body
• Loose Connective Tissue

  ADIPOSE TISSUE


  = ● FAT, beneath skin, around kidneys and eyeballs, abdominal membranes.

  = ● Function: Protective cushion, insulation, stores energy, cells are called adipocytes
• Dense Connective Tissues


  • Dense tissue

  • Closely packed

  • thick collagenous fibers and fine network of elastic fibers.

  • Few cells, poor blood supply, thus slow healing.

  
  

  Achiles Tendons = very strong and resilient
• Function of Bone and Cartilage

  ● Support the rest of the body
• Cartilage types


  = Hyaline: most common

  = Elastic: external ear, epiglottis

  = Fibrocartilage: vertebrae of spinal column, pubic bones of pelvis
• Bone

  = Osteoclasts: Tear Down

  = Osteoblasts: Build UP

  
  

  Osseus = Specialized Connective Tissue