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Types of tissue 4

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  • Epithelial tissue
  • Connective tissue
  • Muscle tissue
  • Nerve tissue
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Nervous Tissue

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internal communication

—brain, spinal cord, nerves

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Muscle tissue

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Contracts to cause movement

  • –attach to bones
  • –muscles of heart
  • –muscle of walls of hollow organs
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What does Epithelial tissue do?

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  • Forms boundaries between different environments
  • protects
  • secretes
  • absorbs
  • filters
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Places of Epithelial tissue

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  • Skin surface(epidermis)

- lining of GI tract organs and other hollow organs

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Connective tissue

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  • Supports
  • protects
  • binds to other tissue
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Types of connective tissue

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Bones
tendons
fat and other soft padding

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Type of Epithelial Tissue (Jobs)

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Covering and lining
—on external and internal surface
Glandular
—secretory tissue in glands

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Characteristics of Epithelial Tissue

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  • Free edge (apical/top) and base (bottom)
  • Densely packed cells
  • Supported by connective tissue reticular lamina
  • Avascular but innervated
  • – does not have its own capillaries, but absorbs stuff through the basement from the membrane beneath it
  • High rate of regeneration
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How do we classify Epithelia?

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  1. How many layers
    - –Simple 1 layer
    - –Statified many layers
  2. What shape of cell
    - –squamous-scale like
    - –cuboidal
    - –columnar
    - –If stratified, name according to apical layer
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Epithelia: Stratified Cuboidal

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  • Rare
  • Found in sweat and mammary glands
  • Typically 2 cell layers thick
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Epithelia: Stratified Columnar

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  • Limited distribution
  • Small amounts in pharynx, male urethra, and lining some glandular ducts
  • Also occurs at transition areas between 2 other types of epithelia
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Connective Tissue

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-Most abundant and widely distributed

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Classes of Connective Tissue

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  • Connective tissue proper
  • Cartilage
  • Bone tissue
  • Blood
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Functions of Connective Tissue-4

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  • Binding and support
  • Protection
  • Insulation
  • Transportation (blood)
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Characteristics of Connective Tissues 3

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  • Mesenchyme as their common tissue origin
  • Varying degrees of vascularity
  • Cells separated by nonliving extracellular matrix (ground substance and fibers)
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Ground Substance
(Element of Connective Tissue)
Definition

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-Medium through which solutes diffuse between blood capillaries and cells

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Ground Substance

Components

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  • Interstitial fluid
  • Adhesion proteins (glue)
  • Proteoglycans
  • –Protein core + large polysaccharides
  • –trap water in varying amounts,, affecting viscosity of the ground substance
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Structural Elements of Connective Tissue

Types of fibers

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  • Collagen (white)
  • –strongest and most abundant
  • –provides high tensile strength
  • Elastic
  • –Networks of long, thin elastin fivers allow for stretch
  • Reticular
  • –Short, fine, highly branched
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Structural Elements of Connective Tissue 3

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Fibers
Cells
Ground Substance

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Structural Element of Connective Tissue

Cells

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-Mitotically active and secretory cells - “blasts”
-Mature cells - “CYTES”
Examples:
—Fibroblasts in connective tissue
—Chondroblasts and chondrocytes in cartilage
—Osteoblasts and osteocytes in bone
—-Hematopoiectic stem cells in bone marrow
—Fat cells, white blood cells, mast cells, macrophages

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Connective Tissue: Embryonic

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Mesenchyme

  • –Gives rise to all other connective tissue
  • –Gel like ground substance with fibers and star shaped mesenchymal cells
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Proper Connective Tissue Types

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Loose

Dense

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Loose Connective Tissue Types

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  • Areolar
  • Adipose
  • Reticular
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Dense Connective Tissue Types (3)
Dense regular Dense irregular Elastic
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Areolar Description
- Gel like matrix with 3 fiber types - Cells: fibroblasts, macrophages, mast cells, white cells - Important roll in inflammation: holds and conveys tissue fluid
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Areolar Function
Wraps and cushions organs
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Areolar Location
- Widely distributed under epithelia of body - Packages organs - surrounds capillaries
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Adipose Tissue Description
Matrix as in areolar but very sparse Closely packed adipocytes or fat cells Nucleous pushed to the side when cell is full
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Adipose Tissue Function (3)
- Provide reserve food fuel - Insulate against heat loss - support and protect organs
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Adipose Tissue Location
- Under skin in the hypodermis - around the kidneys and eyeballs - within abdomen and breasts
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Reticular Tissue Description
Network of reticular fibers in a loose ground substance | Reticular cells lie in the network
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Reticular Tissue Function
Fibers form a soft internal skeleton that supports other cell types including white blood cells, mast cells, and macrophages
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Reticular Tissue Location
Lymphoid organs - --lymph nodes - --bone marrow - --spleen
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Connective Tissue Dense Regular | Description
- Primarily parallel collegen fibers - few elastic fibers - major cell type is fibroblast
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Connective Tissue Dense Regular Function
- attaches muscle to bones or to muscle - attaches bones to bones - withstands great tensile stress when pulled in 1 direction
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Connective Tissue Dense Regular Location
- Tendons - Most ligaments - aponeuroses
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Connective Tissue Dense Irregular Description
- Primarily irregularly arranged college fibers - some elastic fibers - major cell type is fibroblast
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Connective Tissue Dense Irregular Function
- Able to withstand tension exerted in MANY directions | - provides structural strength
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Connective Tissue Dense Irregular Location
- Fibrous capsules of organs and joints - Dermis of the skin - submucosa of digestive tract
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Connective Tissue Dense Elastic Description
Dense regular connective tissue containing a high proportion of elastic fibers
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Connective Tissue Dense Elastic Function
- Allows recoil of tissue following stretching - Maintains pulsatile flow of blood through arteries - Aides passive recoil of lungs following inspiration
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Connective Tissue Dense Elastic Location
- Walls of large arteries - Certain ligaments associated with the vertebral column - Walls of the bronchial tubes
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Connective Tissue Cartilage | Types (3)
- Hyaline cartilage - Elastic cartilage - Fibrocartilage
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Hyaline Cartilage Description
Amorphous but firm matrix Collagen fibers form an imperceptible network chondroblasts produce the matrix and when mature (chondrocytes) lie in lacunae
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Hyaline Cartilage Function
- Supports and reinforces - Has resilient cushioning properties - resists compressive stress
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Hyaline Cartilage Location
-Forms most of the embryonic skeleton -Covers the ends of long bones in joint cavities -forms costal cartilage of the ribs cartilage of the nose, trachea, and larynx
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Fibrocartilage Description
- Matrix similar to but less firm than hyaline - thick collagen fibers - chondrocytes in lacunae
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Fibrocartilage Location
- intervertebral discs - pubic symphysis - discs of the knee joint
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Cartilage Elastic Description
-Similar to hyaline but more elastic fibers in matrix
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Cartilage Elastic Function
Maintains the shape of structure while allowing flexibility
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Cartilage Elastic Location
- Supports external ear | - Epiglottis
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Bone Description
Exceptional ability to support and protect body structure due to hardness. ---Extra collagen fibers and calcium salts found in extracellular matrix
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Types of Bone (2)
- Compact | - Spongy
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Bone (osseous tissue) | Description
-Hard, calcified matrix -containing many collagen fibers -osteocytes in lacunae -Very well vascularized LOOKS LIKE TREE RINGS will be on test
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Bone (osseous tissue) Function
- Support and protect - provides levers for muscles to act on - stores calcium and other minerals and fat - marrow inside bones is the site for blood cell formation
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Bone (osseous tissue) Location
Bones
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Blood
- Classified as connective tissue because it develops from mesenchyme - Consists of blood cells and plasma proteins surrounded by blood plasma
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Muscle Tissue Description
- Highly cellular - well vascularized - responsible for movement
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Muscle Tissue Types (3)
- Skeletal - Cardiac - Smooth
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Skeletal Muscle Description (4)
Long Cylindrical multinucleate cells obvious striations
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Skeletal Muscle Function
- Voluntary movement - --locomotion - --manipulation of the environment - --facial expression - --voluntary control
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Skeletal Muscle Location
attached to bones | occasionally attached to skin
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Cardiac Muscle Description
Branching striated generally uninucleate cells that interrogate at specialized junctions
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Cardiac Muscle Location
Walls of the heart
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Smooth Muscle Description
Spindle snapped cells with a central nuclei NO STRIATIONS form sheets
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Smooth Muscle Function
- Propels substances or objects along internal pathways | - Involuntary control
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Smooth Muscle Location
Walls of hollow organs
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