BIOLOGY 1

CONNECTIVE
TISSUES
 What are
CLASSIFICATION FUNCTIONS
Connective
• Blood Tissues? • Binding, support,
• Bones and packaging.
Is a group of tissues in the • Protection,
• Cartilage
• Connective
body that maintain the defense, and
tissue proper
form of the body and its repair.
(CTP) organs and provide • Insulation.
cohesion and internal • Transportation.
support.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
CONNECTIVE TISSUE
Variations in blood supply
Connective tissues, including
tendons, ligaments, and cartilage,
are vascularized but have poor blood
supply, resulting in slow healing
when injured.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF
CONNECTIVE TISSUE
Extracellular matrix
Connective tissues consist of various
cell types and varying amounts of the
extracellular matrix, a non-living
substance found outside the cells.
 Connective Tissue Proper

Loose CT Dense CT

Areolar Tissue Dense Regular

Adipose Tissue Dense Irregular

Reticular Tissue Elastic

LOOSE CONNECTIVE
TISSUE
Loose connective tissues are softer and have
more cells and fewer fibers than any other
connective tissue type, except blood.

Types:
• Areolar Tissue
• Adipose
• Reticular
 TYPES OF LOOSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Areolar Tissue Adipose Tissue Reticular Tissue

• The most abundant • also known as fat
connective tissue • An internal framework
• a subcutaneous tissue
• Also called the supporting
beneath the skin
“cobwebby” tissue lymphocytes in
• insulates the body from
• Soft, pliable tissue lymphoid organs
bumps and extremes of heat
that cushions and safeguards and cold.
the body organs it covers.
 WHERE CAN WE FIND:

Areolar Tissue Adipose Tissue Reticular Tissue

• Beneath the skin • Subcutaneous: Beneath • Lymph nodes
the skin. • Spleen
• Underneath the
• Packed around internal • Kidney
epithelial tissue
organs • Bone marrow
• All the body systems • Between muscles • Liver (sinusoids)
that have external • In breast tissues
opening • Within bone marrow
 FUNCTION OF AREOLAR CONNECTIVE
TISSUE
Provides support and helps to protect organs, muscles, and
many other tissues. It also helps to bind the skin together.
Provides a protective framework that keeps major structures
in place and offers support.
 FUNCTION OF ADIPOSE CONNECTIVE
TISSUE
Serve as an energy-storing reservoir, but it also insulates
the body from extreme temperatures, cushions vital
organs, and secretes hormones and biological factors.
 FUNCTION OF RETICULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Act as structural support by creating and maintaining the

fine networks of fibers that serve as the framework for
most lymphoid organs. They also have the role of
creating a stroma and offering structural support.
 DISEASES RELATED TO LOOSE
CONNECTIVE TISSUE

• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)

• Marfan Syndrome
• Cutis Laxa
• Etc.
DENSE CONNECTIVE
TISSUE
Dense connective tissue, also known as
dense fibrous tissue, is made up of collagen
fibers and fibroblasts, which are fiber-
forming cells that form the tissue's structural
components.

Types:
• Dense Regular CT
• Dense Irregular CT
• Elastic CT
 TYPES OF DENSE CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Dense Regular Dense Irregular Elastic

• Consist of dense, robust
collagen fibers
• Arranged parallelly for
strength and flexibility
• Are resilient to axial tension
forces and allow stretching.
Found in the dermis and
eyeball's protective white
coating layer, is characterized
by a non-parallel arrangement
of extracellular fibers,
especially collagen fibers.
A rare type with a high
proportion of elastic fibers is
present in various organs,
including the largest arteries.
 WHERE CAN WE FIND:

Dense Regular Dense Irregular Elastic

Can be observed in the Present in various organs,
Can be found in tendons,
dermis, in the capsules of including the largest
ligaments, aponeuroses,
organs such as the spleen, arteries. Can also be
the respiratory tract, and
liver, and those surrounding found between vertebrae
blood vessel walls
lymphatic ganglia. of the spinal column
 FUNCTION OF DENSE REGULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE

The primary function of dense regular connective

tissue includes: Connecting different organs and
muscles. To transmit stress or forces over long
distances.
 FUNCTION OF DENSE IRREGULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Due to high portions of collagenous fibers, dense

irregular connective tissue provides strength, making
the skin resistant to tearing by stretching forces from
different directions.
 FUNCTION OF DENSE ELASTIC CONNECTIVE TISSUE

Dense Elastic connective tissue allows tissue to recoil

after stretching and also maintains pulsatile flow of
blood through arteries
DISEASES RELATED TO DENSE
CONNECTIVE TISSUE

• Fibromyalgia
• Dupuytren's Contracture
• Keloids
• Etc.
BLOOD

Also called vascular tissue, is a fluid

connective tissue that consists of blood cells
surrounded by a non-living fluid matrix called
blood plasma and serves as the cardiovascular
system's transport vehicle, transporting
nutrients, waste, and other substances
throughout the body.
 BLOOD
Composed of a fluid part, called plasma,
and cellular parts or formed elements.
The cellular parts are divided into
erythrocytes (red blood cells), leukocytes
(white blood cells), and (thrombocytes)
or platelets.
 BLOOD TYPES
Four main blood types (A, B, AB, O)
with unique antigens and antibodies
form eight possible blood types,
crucial for medical procedures like
transfusions and transplants.
 BLOOD-RELATED
DISEASES
• Anemia
• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Hemophilia
• Sickle cell disease
• Etc.
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