Tissues

A tissue is a grouping of cells where all the cells have similar structure and function.

What are the Four Major Tissue Types…

- epithelial

- connective

- neural (=nervous)

- -muscle

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“The Building Blocks of Organs”

What is a tissue?

Epithelial Tissue…

…a sheet of cells that covers a body surface or lines a body cavity.

What is epithelial tissue?

Epithelial Tissue examples

• lines body cavities open to the exterior (e.g., digestive and respiratory tracts)

• moist membranes found in closed ventral body cavity

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A GLAND

What is this structure?

Connective Tissue…

…cells are spaced apart from each other and are separated by a “matrix.”

…has an extra-cellular “matrix” composed of ground substance and fibers (elastin or collagen).

What are two distinguishing features of connective tissue?

Functions of Connective Tissue

• Binding (ex: holds skin onto body)

• Support (ex: bone, cartilage, ligaments)

• Protection (ex: skull, ribs, pelvis)• Cushioning (ex: fat around internal organs)

• Thermal insulation (ex: fat below skin)

• Transport of materials (ex: blood, lymph)

What are six functions of connective tissue?

Fibers

• Collagen – – tough, thick fibers; provide high tensile

strength (“ropes”)

• Elastin – – long, thin fibers; allow for stretch (“rubber

bands”)

What are two types of fibers found in the matrix of connective tissue – and what are

their properties?

How can you tell that this is connective tissue?

Cells are far apart and there are fibers and ground substance.

A stretched preparation of loose (areolar) connective tissue. The pink fibers of different thicknesses are collagenous (or white) fibers. The dark, thin, more tortuous fibers are elastic (or yellow) fibers. Most of the nuclei belong to fibroblasts.

Fat cells -- note nucleus and rim of cytoplasm pushed to one side by the accumulation of fat. In the center of the picture, in the space bounded by the four large fat cells, there is a small, round cross-section of a capillary with a dark, shrunken red blood cell inside. WOW…how cool!

Tendon (dense, regular c.t.), cut longitudinally. The thick collagen fibers (pink) are lined up parallel to each other. Fibroblasts (cells) are squeezed between the fibers and therefore also line up in parallel rows. Note that there are no striations so this is NOT skeletal muscle even though it resembles it.

Dense regular connective tissue – tendons and ligaments

Dense irregular conn. tiss. with fibers running in all directions. The fibers are mainly collagen, but there is a small amount of thinner elastic fibers (not visible). Found in the joint capsules that enclose joints.

Connective Tissue: Cartilage• Hyaline cartilage

– barely visible network of collagen fibers– has chondrocytes (cartilage cells)– Supports, reinforces, cushions, and resists

compression• ex: costal (rib) cartilage• ex: embryonic skeleton• ex: articular cartilge at ends of long bones• ex: nose, trachea (“windpipe”), and larynx

(“voicebox”)

Hyaline cartilage (greenish matrix), There are some collagen and elastin fibers in the cartilage matrix, but they are invisible. Cartilage cells = chondrocytes.

Close-up of two chondrocytes. The matrix appears very smooth, clear, and glassy (or "hyaline").

Notice the reddish elastin fibers in the matrix.

Fibrocartilage, with collagen fibers in the matrix. They look "cotton-y", unlike the sharply defined elastic fibers seen before.

Connective Tissue: Bone

– Hard, calcium phosphate matrix with collagen fibers

– Osteocytes = bone cells– Supports, protects, and provides levers for

muscular action– Stores calcium, minerals, and fat– Marrow inside bones is the site of blood

production.

Describe the properties and functions of bone tissue.

Section of bone. In the center of each “spaghetti” is a “canal” that carries blood vessels and a nerve. Therefore, bone is a well “vascularized” tissue, meaning that it has a rich blood supply.

(By contrast, cartilage and epithelial tissue are “avascular.”)

Higher magnification of bone. Black smudges are the osteocyters (bone cells). Notice the canaliculi (red arrows) that radiate outward from the central canal. This is how oxygen and nutrients get to the bone cells from the blood vessels inside the central canal.

Even higher magnification of bone.

Nervous Tissue

•Functions•respond to stimuli

•communicate with other cells

•transmit impulses

What are the functions of nervous tissue?

Muscle Tissue

•Functions•contract

•move bones

•pump blood

•move substances through internal organs

•ex: urinary bladder, uterus, blood vessels, digestive tract

What are the functions of muscle tissue?

What type of muscle tissue is this?

Skeletal muscle