BASIC TISSUES CONNECTIVE AND MUSCLE Lecture notes ANATOMY Clinically Oriented Anatomy, ISBN: 9780781775250

BASIC TISSUES
(CONNECTIVE TISSUE AND MUSCLE)
Department of
Anatomy

, OUTLIN
E

• Connective tissue
• Muscle tissue.




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, CONNECTIVE
• TISSUE
Three basic components of connective tissue:
1. Specialised cells.
2. Extracellular protein fibres.
3. Ground substance,




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, FIXED
CELLS
• Two types of cells: Fixed and mobile cells Collagen
fibres
• Fibroblasts
• Abundant in common connective
tissue fibroblast
• Cells are spindle shaped with sharp
processes
• The rER is well developed
• In sections the nucleus appears
shrunken and dark
• Synthesize fibres and matrix
• Cells that become trapped in the
matrix are called fibrocytes
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