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Connective Tissue is derived from…

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Mesoderm

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Special Connective Tissue

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Adipose
Blood
Cartilage
Bone

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Components of Connective Tissue

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Cells - Fixed and transient

Extracellular Matrix (material between cells) - Fibers (resist tensile forces)

Ground Substance - Amorphous (reisist compressive forces)

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Collagen

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Resist Tensile Forces

Most abundant

White (tendons)

Formed by fibroblasts and non-connective tissue

28 types

DO NOT BRANCH

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Collagen Formation

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1) 3 PREPROCOLLAGEN (glycine, proline, hydroxyproline, and hydroxyglysine)
ALLIGN = PROCOLLAGEN MOLECULE = rope, soluble

2) At secretion = terminal protein removed by procollagen peptidases = TROPOCOLLAGEN
3) TROPOCOLLAGEN polymerizes in extracellular matrix = FIBRILS
4) FIBRILS polymerize = COLLAGEN FIBERS

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Reticular Fibers

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Type II Collagen

AGYROPHILLIC

BRANCHES (Lattice Network)

SILVER STAIN

Small (glycoprotein coat prevents enlargement)

Make up LCT and Reticular CT

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Elastic Fibers

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Elastin

NO HYDROXYLYSINE = stretch

4 lysine molecule with a desmosome link (elasticity)

Surrounded by microfinrils (fibrillin)

BRANCHES

Can form internal elastic membrane (DRCT) = sheath - cont around an artery

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Elastic Fiber Formation

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1) Elastin is deposited on the scaffold of microfibrils forming amorphous structures
2) initially fiber consists of fibrollin microfinrils secreted by fibroblasts and smooth muscle
3) Elastin accumulates = occupies most of electron-dense center of single elastin fiber and fibrillin microfibrils remain at the fiber surface

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Elastin resists digestion by ———- but is hydrolyzed by———-

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Proteases

Pancreatic Elastase

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Elastin (unlike collagen) can form…

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…a sheet = ELASTIC MEMBRANE or ELASTIC LAMINA

Prominent in arteries

Formed by fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells

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Ground Substance

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Stuff in between the cells and the fibers

Hydrated gel of complex sugars (glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), proteoglycans, and multiadhesive glycoproteins)

Resists forces of compression, lubricant, and barrier to the penetration of invaders

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Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs)

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Unbranched, negatively charged long chain of disaccharides

Attracts water = hydrated gel which resists compression

Repel each other = slippery texture that resists compression

EX = HYALURONIC ACID (common)

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Proteoglycans

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Made of test-tube brush proteins with GAGs attached

Negative

Attract water and repulse each other

Form hydrated gel

Act as diffusion barrier

Aggrecan = macromoleculs that allows for gel state and barrier for diffusion

Many bact secrete hyaluronidase = gel state ot sol state = rapid spread of bact

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Multiadhesive Glycoproteins

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1) Attachment to cells in ECM
2) Mediate interaction between cells
3) Has transient regulatory substances (interleukins, growth factors, hormones, plasma proteins, etc.)

EX = LAMININ (basal lamina of stratified epithelium and external lamina of nerves and muscle fibers) and FIBRONECTIN (ECM)

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Movement of Fluids

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Water leaves capillary and goes into ECM at arterial end of capillary = Hydrostatic P

Water is pulled back in at the venous end of the capillary = Plasma Colloid Osmotic P

Mix of nutrients, etc.

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Connective Tissue is classified by….

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….amount, direction, and tyoe

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Dense Connective Tissue

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1) DENSE REGULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Elastin or collagen
Tendons, ligaments, cornea
Fibers on one direction
Tensile strength
One break = whole thing is weakened

2) DENSE IRREGULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Elastic or collagen
Dermis, capsules of organs, and periosteum
Protective Coating
Multiple directions

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Loose Connective Tissue

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Areolar
Superficial fascia, lamina propria of intestines
Less fibers = more cells and open space (amorphous material)
Exchange

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Reticular Connective Tissue

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Spleen and lymph nodes
Basement membranes
Agyrophilic = silver
Cellular movement and nutritional exchange

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1st sign of decrease in collagen

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Teeth falling out

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Connective Tissue Cells

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1) Fixed Cells
Fibroblast
Fibrocyte
Pericyte
Adipocyte
Mast Cell
Myofibroblasts

2) Transient Cells
Plasma Cell
Neutrophil
Eosinophil
Lymphocyte
Macrophage
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Fibroblast

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FIXED CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Most numerous cell in connective tissue

Produces and maintains the ECM (with smooth muscle cells) = Fibers and Ground Substance

Metabolically active (open faced = euchromatin in nucleus)

Spindle shape

Cytoplasm not apparent

Tendinoctytes in tendon

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Myofibroblasts

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FIXED CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Modified fibroblasts that demonstrate similar characteristics to fibroblasts (by creating massive amounts of ECM) and smooth muscle cells (by contracting)

Common in healing wounds = speed healing by contracting edge of wounds

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Pericytes

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FIXED CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Immature mesenchymal cell

Wall of capillaries and venules

Cytoplasm with actin and myosin

Can differentiate into other cell types (myofibroblasts, smooth muscle cels, or endothelial cells)

FUNCTIONS:
Blood brain barrier
Blood flow regulator

Damage to = diabetic retinopathy

Too many in brain = Alzheimer’s Disease

Tumors cannot recruit = weakness and disorganization of tumor vasculature

When they die, they constrict

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Adipocyte
FIXED CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE ``` 1) Unilocular/ White - single large lipid droplet Energy storage Prominent in SER Lipid metabolism Endocrine tissue Nucelus is pushed to the side ``` ``` 2) Multilocular/Brown Multiple lipid droplets Heat Production = non-shivering thermogenesis Abundant MITOCHONDRIA Neonatal/ hibernating animals ``` Lipid only present in vivo (removed due to processing)
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Mast Cell
FIXED CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE W/in connective tissue of organs with orifices, skin, and serous membranes Also prominent in LCT of blood vessels Primary Mediators: Chondrotin sulfate HISTAMINE Eosinophil chemotactic factor (ECF) = limit inflammatory response Neutrophil chemotactic factor (NCF) = limit inflammatory response Secondary Mediators D2 leukotrienes C4 and D4 Basophilic granules can obscure nucleus BUT cytoplasm is easily identified
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Mast Cell Tumors
Most common cutaneous tumor found in dogs Affects heart rate, BP, etc. Develop in dermis and subcutaneous Found commonly on trunks
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Leukocytes
TRANSIENT CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE WBC 1) Granulocyte - sp. granules; segmented/lobed nucleus Neutrophil (PMN) Eosinophil Basophil 2) Agranulocyte:- NO sp. granules BUT contain primary granules; round nuclei and minimal cytoplasm Common in CT of mucous membranes, spleen, thymus, lymph nodes, tonsils, etc. Lymphocytes Monocyte (can only ident. in a blood smear)
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Macrophage
TRANSIENT CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE Agranuloctyes = from Monocyte (stays in blood; out of blood = macrophage) Kidney bean shaped nucleus = open- faced FUNCTIONS: Ingest and destroy Secretion of cytokines (messages) Antigen Presentation Cell shape is ueven due to filopodia projections
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Eosinophil
TRANSIENT CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE Granulocyte Elongated nuclei Acidophilic cytoplasmic granules FUNCTIONS: Phagocytosis PARASITES Limit inflammation from mast cells Specific or secondary granules are eosinophilic Granules contain major basic protein, eosinophilic peroxidase, neurotoxins, and eosinphilic cationic portein Azuric sp ganules
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Neutrophil
TRANSIENT CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE Granulocyte Most common leukocyte Cytoplasmic granule present BUT not visible FUNCTIONS: Phagocytosis of BACTERIA Limit inflammation by mast cells Stained mildly by basophilic and eosinophilic dye = neutrophil stores of glycogen can survive in an anaerobic env = can fight bact in necrotic tissue when die, neutrophils and bact become white/yellow pus the more lobes of the nucleus = the older the neutrophil
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Basophil
TRANSIENT CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE Granulocyte Large cytoplasmic granules= obscure nucleus (bilobed) Store and release histamine = SIMILAR TO MAST CELLS
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Pasma Cell
TRANSIENT CELL IN CONNECTIVE TISSUE Immunoglobulin Abundant RER = basophilic cytoplasm Clock-face nucleus (round with heterchromatin) Lack of staining around nucleus = negative golgi Derived from B lymphocyte
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Exuberant Granulation Tissue = ?
Proud Flesh
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Tendon
DRCT Tendinocytes (fibroblasts) Boxcar Effect - fibroblasts pushed together in a row Basophilic Streaming - active fibroblast
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What molecule stains evenly with eosin?
Plasma Protein
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Granules of Neutrophils
Azurophillic primary granules contain: 1) Myeloperoxidase (MPO) - gnerates reactive oxygen sp. = superoxide, hydroxide 2) Lysozymes = degrades bact wall and structure 3) Defensins = small proteins which are inserted into bact wall = bact cannot control ion gradient = explode Sp. or Secondary Granules 1) Do not stain 2) Contain chemokines to attract more WBCs 3) Lactoferrin = binds iron which bact need to live
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Macrophages and mast cells attract -------- and -----
Eosiniphils and neutrophils
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Jejunum
1) Epithelial layer 2) Basment Membrane Lamina lucida = adhesion molecules (integrin, laminin) Lamina Densa = type IV collagen and fibronectin Lamina Reticularis = type I and III Collagen, types IV and VII collagen anchoring plaques and fibrils; made by fibroblasts

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