Loose Connective Tissue Slide
Elastic and reticular fibers.
Loose connective tissue slide. The ecm is composed of a moderate amount of ground substance and two main types of protein fibers. Loose areolar connective tissue is the most abundant form of collagenous connective tissue. Connective tissue slides 1. Slide 9 omentum or mesentery.
This type of tissue is used extensively throughout the body for fastening down the skin membranes blood vessels and nerves as well as binding muscles and other tissues together. Function bind together support strengthen organ systems protect and insulate internal organs compartmentalize structures skeletal muscles transport system blood stored energy adipose immune response white blood cells. Its cellular content is highly abundant and varied. Loose connective tissue areolar tissue return to epithelium and connective tissue page.
Yes this is unilocular adipose tissue. It occurs in small elongated bundles separated by regions that contain ground substance. Adipose tissue in some locations of loose connective tissue adipose tissue is a common component such as some regions of the hypodermis. Some of the individual fat cells are often broken during tissue preparation but the overall impression of what the tissue looks like is the important point.
Cells of the connective tissues. Dense connective tissue is enriched in collagen fibers with little ground substance. Cell slide comments 1. Loose connective tissue lct also called areolar tissue belongs to the category of connective tissue proper.
Return to image bank home page. Adipose tissue loose connective tissue is characterized by a loose array of collagen strands which are produced by fibroblasts. The slides listed in this section are not the only ones in which these types of cells may be seen but they are the ones where the cells can be seen most clearly. The fibroblast nuclei will be elongate.
Consequently more variation exists from slide to slide than with sections from a single block. Loose or areolar connective tissue slide 7 is not a section of tissue.