PNB 2264 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Intervertebral Disc, Epiglottis, Fibrocartilage
24 Jan 2017
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Diverse, abundant, widely distributed throughout the body. Functions: structural support, binding structures together, back storage, exchange of nutrients and metabolic waste, defense/protection. Cells, protein fibers, ground substance: last 2 are extracellular matrix. Abundant ground substance and scattered cells and loosely arranged protein fibers. Areolar: subcutaneous layer and around organs, gel ground substance, numerous blood vessels, scattered fibroblasts. Adipose: in subcutaneous tissue and around some organs, close packed adipocytes. Reticular: stroma (connective tissue in lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, and bone marrow, reticular fibers. Scattered fibroblasts and leukocytes (wbcs) in gel like ground substance. Abundant tightly packed fibers, relatively few cells and ground substance. Dense regular: tendons and ligaments, dense parallel college fibers and fibroblasts between layers with little ground substance. Dense irregular: dermis, periostium, and perichondrium and capsule of organs, random arranged collagen fibers with fibroblasts between layers, more ground substance than dense regular.
