1. The most abundant and widely diverse of all the basic tissue types
Connective Tissue
The most abundant and widely diverse of all the basic tissue types

2. Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions including:

3. Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions including:
- Binding tissue together

4. Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues

5. Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs

6. Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
- Compartmentalizes structures

7. Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
- Compartmentalizes structures
- Transport system for blood

8. Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
- Compartmentalizes structures
- Transport system for blood
- Stores energy (fat or adipose tissue)

9. Connective Tissue
Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions including:
- Binding tissue together
- Support and strengthens other tissues
- Protects and insulates internal organs
- Compartmentalizes structures
- Transport system for blood
- Stores energy (fat or adipose tissue)
- Immune system responses

10. Connective Tissues have a variety of different cells in their tissues including:

11. Connective Tissues have a variety of different cells in their tissues including:
Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood vessels

12. Connective Tissues have a variety of different cells in their tissues including:
Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood vessels
Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix

13. Connective Tissues have a variety of different cells in their tissues including:
Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood vessels
Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
Plasma cells – secrete antibodies

14. Connective Tissues have a variety of different cells in their tissues including:
Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood vessels
Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
Plasma cells – secrete antibodies
Macrophages – engulf bacteria and other cellular debris

15. Connective Tissues have a variety of different cells in their tissues including:
Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood vessels
Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
Plasma cells – secrete antibodies
Macrophages – engulf bacteria and other cellular debris
Adipocytes – fat cells that store triglycerides

16. Connective Tissues have a variety of different cells in their tissues including:
Mast cells – that produce histamine and dilate blood vessels
Fibroblasts – large, flat cells, the most numerous of CT cells that serve as part of the extracellular matrix
Plasma cells – secrete antibodies
Macrophages – engulf bacteria and other cellular debris
Adipocytes – fat cells that store triglycerides
White blood cells (leukocytes) – migrate from the blood into the connective tissue during immune responses

17. Connective tissue is involved with the immune response

18. Mast cell tumor in dog

19. Human fibroblast cells -
these cells contain numerous different types of proteins which can be visualized with different stains

20. Phagocytosis of red blood cells
Macrophages – Macrophages can consume objects through the process of phagocytosis many times their own size

21. White Blood Cells!

22. Real white blood
cells also known
As “leukocytes”
Red blood cells, aka
“erythrocytes”

23. Abdominal Fat

24. Adipose Connective Tissue

26. Connective tissues contain a variety of fiber types

27. Collagen

28. Collagen?
Collagen

29. Elastic Fibers found in
artery

30. Elastic Fibers

31. Reticular Fibers lymph node

32. Connective Tissue Groupings

33. Areolar Connective Tissue
Superficial Dermis

34. Reticular Connective Tissue - Spleen

37. Dense Irregular Connective Tissue - Skin

38. Elastic Connective
Tissue – Bronchiole
Tissue

39. Cartilage and Bone
- Articular cartilage - Fibrocartilage - Elastic cartilage - Bone

40. Articular
Hyaline Cartilage
Trachea

42. Fibrocartilage – Pubic Symphysis

43. Elastic – “Auricular” Cartilage of the Ear

47. Normal Bone Osteoporosis Bone