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| Fxns of connective tissue |
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| Structural support, energy reserve, defense (Physical and home for phagocytic/immune cells), nutrient/waste exchange, repair of tissues |
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| Lower venous pressure, increased vascular permeability, starvation |
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| Thick fibers not staining with silver and found in dermis, bone, tendon, organ capsules, and fibrocartilage... Synthesized by fibroblasts, osteoblasts, odontoblasts, and chondroblasts and fxn in strength and resistance to tensile forces. |
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| Thin fibrils and found in hyaline and elasic cartilage and made with chondroblasts and resistant to intermittent pressure. |
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| Thin fibers that associate with other fibers and are called reticular... Found in smotth muscle, endoneruium, arteries, liver, spleen, kidney, lung, and lymph nodes and are produced by smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts, schwann cells, and hepatocytes.... Flexible strength and often found in tissues where volume changes. |
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| No fibrils or fibers and exists as procollagen peptides and is found in basal laminae and produced by epithelial cells, endothelial cells, muscle cells, and schwann cells.... Support attachement to underlying layers. |
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| Fibrils and found in basal laminae and produced by fibroblasts and anchor epithelium to underlying connective tissue... |
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| No fibrils or fibers and bind to fibril forming collagens to stabilize them.... Found in cornea, tendons, cartilage.... Produced by chondroblasts, fibroblasts and important component in cartilage... |
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| Transmembrane protein part of hemidesmosomes and made in epithelial cells and anchor epithelium to connective tissue at desmosomes. |
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| Brittle Collagen resulting from a loss of vitamin C which is required for hydroxylation of proline in the RER |
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| Excessive Collagen Production causing organs to harden |
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| Defects in collagen production for 3 and 4 types and results in increased elasticity, hyper joint mobility and fragile blood vessels. |
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| Two components of elastic fibers? |
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| What causes Marfan syndrome? |
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| Mutations in fibrillin 1 gene. |
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| Secrete and turn over most ECM components (INcluding Collagen) |
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| Phagocytose microorganisms |
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