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It is fixed and transient

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Cells

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Examples are ground substance and fibers

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Extracellular matrix

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Examples of this are GAG, proteoglycans, glycoproteins

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Ground substance

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Examples of this are Collagen and elastic

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Fibers

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Under fixed cells

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Fibroblasts
Adipose cells
Pericytes
Mast cells
Macrophages

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Under transient cells

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Plasma cells,
lymphocytes,
neutrophils,
eosinophils,
basophils,
monocytes,
macrophages

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The most abundant cell type in the connective tissue, are responsible for the synthesis of almost all of the ECM

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FIBROBLASTS

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Are modified fibroblast that demonstrate characteristics similar to those of both fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells

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MYOFIBROBLAST

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Absence of basal lamina

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MYOFIBROBLAST

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Abundant in areas undergoing wound healing

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MYOFIBROBLAST

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Surround endothelial cells of capillaries and small venules and reside outside the connective tissue compartment, because they possess their own basal lamina

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PERICYTES

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Are fully differentiated cells that function in the synthesis, storage and release of fats

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ADIPOSE CELLS

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Single, large lipid droplet

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White adipose tissue (unilocular fat cells)

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Multiple, small lipid droplets

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Brown adipose tissue (multilocular fat cells)

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Arise from bone marrow stem cells and function in mediating the inflammatory process and immediate hypersensitivity reactions

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MAST CELLS

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Macrophages belong to the mononuclear phagocytic system and
are subdivided into two groups of cells:

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Phagocytes
Antigen-presenting cells APC

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Act both as fixed and transient cell

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MACROPHAGES

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Hydrated, amorphous material that is composed of GAG, proteoglycans and glycoproteins

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Ground substance

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Collagen and Elastic

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Fibers

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Inelastic and possess great tensile strength

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Types of collagen:
in connective tissue proper, bone, dentin, cementum

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Types of collagen:
hyaline and elastic cartilages

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Types of collagen:
reticular fibers

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Types of collagen:
lamina densa of the basal lamina

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Types of collagen: placenta; associated with type I collagen
Type V
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Types of collagen: attaching the basal lamina to the lamina reticularis
Type VII
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Composed of elastin (responsible for elasticity) and microfibrils (responsible for stability)
Elastic
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TYPES OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE: Loose (Areolar) and Dense
Connective Tissue Proper
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Under Dense of Connective Tissue Proper:
Irregular Regular (Collagenous and Elastic) Reticular Adipose
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TYPES OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE: Cartilage (Hyaline, Elastic, Fibrocartilage) Bone
Specialized Connective Tissue
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TYPES OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE: Mesenchymal Mucous
Embryonic Connective Tissues
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TYPES OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE PROPER:
Loose Dense Reticular Adipose
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Composed of loose arrangement of fibers and dispersed cells embedded in a gel-like ground substance
LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Abundant ground substance with fixed connective tissue cells (fibroblast, adipose, macrophages, mast cells)
LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Scattered, loosely woven collagen, reticular and elastic fibers
LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Located in the Spaces of the body just deep to the skin
LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Lies below mesothelial lining of internal cavity
LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Located in the Adventitia of blood vessels
LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Located in the Parenchyma of glands
LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Greater abundance of fibers and fewer cells than loose connective tissue
DENSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Mostly coarse collagen fibers interwoven into meshwork
Dense Irregular
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Fibers are packed so tightly that space is limited for ground substance and cells
Dense Irregular
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Fibroblasts are the most abundant cells of what connective tissue?
Dense Irregular
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Located in the dermis of the skin, the sheaths of nerves, and the capsules of spleen, testes, ovary, kidney, lymph nodes
Dense Irregular
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Composed of coarse collagen bundles densely packed and oriented in parallel cylinders
Dense Regular Collagenous
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Located in the tendons, ligaments, aponeurosis
Dense Regular Collagenous
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Coarse branching elastic fibers with only few collagen
Dense Regular Elastic
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Located in the large blood vessels, ligamenta flava of vertebral column and suspensory ligament of the penis
Dense Regular Elastic

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