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Connective Tissue
The most abundant and widely
diverse of all the basic tissue types
Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of
functions including:
Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of
functions including:
- Binding tissue together
Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of
functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of
functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of
functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
- Compartmentalizes structures
Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of
functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
- Compartmentalizes structures
- Transport system for blood
Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of
functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
- Compartmentalizes structures
- Transport system for blood
- Stores energy (fat or adipose tissue)
Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of
functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
- Compartmentalizes structures
- Transport system for blood
- Stores energy (fat or adipose tissue)
- Immune system responses
Connective Tissues have a
variety of different cells in their
tissues including:
Connective Tissues have a variety of
different cells in their tissues including:
- Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood
vessels
Connective Tissues have a variety of
different cells in their tissues including:
- Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood
vessels
- Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT
cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
Connective Tissues have a variety of
different cells in their tissues including:
- Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood
vessels
- Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT
cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
- Plasma cells – secrete antibodies
Connective Tissues have a variety of
different cells in their tissues including:
- Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood
vessels
- Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT
cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
- Plasma cells – secrete antibodies
- Macrophages – engulf bacteria and other cellular debris
Connective Tissues have a variety of
different cells in their tissues including:
- Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood
vessels
- Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT
cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
- Plasma cells – secrete antibodies
- Macrophages – engulf bacteria and other cellular debris
- Adipocytes – fat cells that store triglycerides
Connective Tissues have a variety of
different cells in their tissues including:
- Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood
vessels
- Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT
cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
- Plasma cells – secrete antibodies
- Macrophages – engulf bacteria and other cellular debris
- Adipocytes – fat cells that store triglycerides
- White blood cells (leukocytes) – migrate from the blood
into the connective tissue during immune responses
Connective tissue is involved with the immune response
Mast cell tumor in dog
Human fibroblast cells these cells contain numerous
different types of proteins
which can be visualized with
different stains
Phagocytosis of red blood cells
Macrophages – Macrophages
can consume objects through
the process of phagocytosis
many times their own size
White Blood Cells!
Real white blood
cells also known
As “leukocytes”
Red blood cells, aka
“erythrocytes”
Abdominal Fat
Adipose Connective Tissue
Connective tissues contain a
variety of fiber types
Collagen
Collagen?
Collagen
Elastic Fibers found in
artery
Elastic Fibers
Reticular Fibers lymph node
Connective Tissue Groupings
Areolar Connective Tissue
Superficial Dermis
Reticular Connective Tissue - Spleen
Dense Irregular Connective Tissue - Skin
Elastic Connective
Tissue – Bronchiole
Tissue
Cartilage and Bone
- Articular cartilage
- Fibrocartilage
- Elastic cartilage
- Bone
Articular
Hyaline Cartilage
Trachea
Fibrocartilage – Pubic Symphysis
Elastic – “Auricular” Cartilage of the Ear
Normal Bone
Osteoporosis Bone