Location: Connective tissue such as in cartilage, bones, tendons, ligaments, and skin
Function: Supports body tissue and collagen is a major component of the extracellular matrix that support cells.

Elastic Fibers

Location: Skin, lungs, arteries, veins, connective tissue proper, elastic cartilage, periodontal ligament, fetal tissue.
Function: Provide strength, extensibility (ability to stretch), and elasticity (ability to return to its shape after stretching) to skin

Reticular Fibers

Location: Lymphoid organs (lymph nodes, bone marrow, and spleen)
Function: Fibers form a soft internet skeleton that supports other cell types

Location: Widely distributed under epithelia of body, packages organs, surrounds capilliaries.
Function: wraps and cushion organs, phagocytes engulf bacteria, helps in inflammation, holds and conveys tissue fluid

Location: tendons and ligaments
Function: attaches muscles to bones or to muscles, attaches bones to bones, and withstands great tensile strength

Location: Lower layers of the skin (dermis) and in the protective white layer of the eyeball.
Function: It offers strength to the skin, making it resistant to tearing from various straining forces

Location: Under skin; around kidneys and eyeballs; within abdomen; in breasts
Function: Provides reserve food fuel; insulates against heat loss; supports and protects organs

Location: Bones
Function: Bone supports and protects, provides levers for the muscles to act on; stores calcium and other minerals and fat; marrow inside bones is the site for blood cell formation

Location: Blood vessels
Function: Is a bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances, such as nutrients and oxygen, to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.

Location: Umbilical cord
Function: High turgor to resist compression