Tissues Tissues!!
What are the 4 major tissue types?
Epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous
Covers the body and organs
What are the two types of glands?
Endocrine & Exocrine
TRUE OR FALSE
Connective Tissue lacks vascularity
FALSE
The different connective tissue types vary in vascularity.
Skeletal
What are tissues made up of?
Groups of cells
Function
Protects,secretes,absorb,excretes
TRUE OR FALSE
Exocrine glands are only unicellular.
FALSE
Exocrine glands can be unicellular or multicellular.
(Multicellular exocrine glands can be simple or compound.)
There are many functions of connective tissue. Can you name three?
Bind structures
Provide support and protection
Serve as frameworks
Fill spaces
Store fat
Produce blood cells
Protect against infections
Help repair tissue damage
What are muscle cells called?
Muscle fibers
If a groups of cells make up tissues, what do groups of tissues make up?
Organ
they are anchored to
connective tissue by basement membrane
How are glands classified?
By how they secrete fluid
What are the three cell types of connective fibers
Where are nervous tissue found
Brain
What is the most abundant tissue in the body?
Connective tissues
How are epithelial tissues classified? (2 ways)
Cell shape and number of cells layers
What are the 3 types of glands?
Merocrine, Apocrine, Holocrine
What are the two types of connective tissue?
Connective Tissue Proper and Specialized Connective Tissue
What are nerve cells called?
Neurons
How are cells formed together to create tissues? The 3 types?
Intracellular Junctions
-Tight junctions
-Desosomes
-Gap junctions
Transitional tissue cells go from what shape to what shape when stretched?
Cube-shaped to elongated
What does holocrine do
Release cells filled with secretory products
What are the three types of cartilage?
Hyaline, Elastic, Fibrocartilage
What are peripheral nerves?
Nerve branches off of the brain and spinal cord