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.
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.
Collagen Fibers
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.
Loose (Areolar) Connective Tissue
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
Dense Regular Connective Tissue
Location: tendons and ligaments
Function: attaches muscles to bones or to muscles, attaches bones to bones, and withstands great tensile strength
Dense Irregular Connective Tissue
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
Adipose Tissue
Location: Under skin; around kidneys and eyeballs; within abdomen; in breasts
Function: Provides reserve food fuel; insulates against heat loss; supports and protects organs
Bone
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
Blood
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.
Mucous Connective Tissue
Location: Umbilical cord
Function: High turgor to resist compression