Epithelial

Connectiv
e

Description
- composed of tightly packed cells with very little intercellular substance
- Surface Epithelia exposed to air or fluid; continuous with 1 or more cell layers
*base of epithelia usually rests on a basement membrane.
- Basement Membrane separates epithelia from underlying tissues; never
penetrated by blood vessels
- Cells joined by cellular junction
- Named by: layer + shape

Location
Lining of the small intestine
Kidney tubules
Sweat glands
Skin
Neuroepithelium (Taste buds)
Myoepthelial Cells

Function
Absorption
Transport
Excretion /Secretion
Protective covering and lining for
surfaces
contain nerve cells for Sensory Reception
Contractility

- distributed throughout an extracellular matrix.

- Basic components:
+ Cells scattered throughout the extracellular matrix

Tendons & Ligaments

Blood
Fat Cells

- Provide structural and metabolic support

- Mediate exchange of nutrients,
metabolites and waste products between
tissues and circulatory systems

Walls of hollow organs

Skeletal muscles attached to
bones
Walls of the heart

- Contraction
- Movement

Brain, Spinal chord and

Nerves

- Communication: receiving and

transferring a stimuli from region to
another

= Fibroblasts(immature)/fibrocyte , Adipocyte, Mast Cell, Macrophages, Blood Cells

+ Extracellular Matrix
Its nature of this determines the functional properties of the various
connective tissues.
- 2 regions:
1. Ground substance: mixture of polysaccharide chains, glycosaminoglycan (GAGs), &
proteoglycans < Liquid (sol), Gel, Gum or solid>
Structural Glycoproteins: mediates interaction of cells with other constituents
2. Fibers: embedded in a ground substance with a consistency anywhere from liquid to
solid. (Collagen, Elastin, Reticulin) < Non-elastic = white or Collagen Elastic = yellow
fibers>

Muscular

Nervous

- Cells with elongated fiber specialized for contraction

- Sarcoplasm unspecialized cytoplasm of muscles
- Sarcolemma membrane covering a muscle
*Smooth unstriped fibers
Skeletal and Cardiac striped fibers
- composed of diff. types of cells
+ nerve cell/neuron - functional unit (impulse-conducting cells)
+ axons - bundled together in nerves
+ neuroglia - cells involved with protection, support, and nourishment
+ peripheral glial cells - form sheaths and help protect, nourish, and maintain
cells of the peripheral nervous system
- smear, cross section & longitudinal section