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CHAPTER 4. TISSUE: THE LIVING FABRIC. INTRODUCTION TO TISSUE. TISSUES ARE GROUPS OF CELLS THAT ARE SIMILAR IN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION 4 PRIMARY TISSUE TYPES: EPITHILIAL (COVERING), CONNECTIVE(SUPPORT), NERVOUS (CONTROL), AND MUSCULAR (MOVEMENT). EPITHELIAL TISSUE. FEATURES OF EPITHELIA.
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CHAPTER 4 TISSUE: THE LIVING FABRIC
INTRODUCTION TO TISSUE • TISSUES ARE GROUPS OF CELLS THAT ARE SIMILAR IN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION • 4 PRIMARY TISSUE TYPES: EPITHILIAL (COVERING), CONNECTIVE(SUPPORT), NERVOUS (CONTROL), AND MUSCULAR (MOVEMENT)
FEATURES OF EPITHELIA • AN EPITHELIUM IS A SHEET OF CELLS THAT COVERS A BODY SURFACE OR LINES A CAVITY • EPITHELIUM OCCURS IN THE BODY AS COVERING OR LINING EPITHELIUM, AND AS GLANDULAR EPITHELIUM
SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EPITHELIUM • COMPOSED OF CLOSELY PACKED CELLS WITH LITTLE EXTRACELLULAR MATERIAL BETWEEN • ADJACENT EPITHELIAL CELLS ARE BOUND TOGETHER BY SPECIALIZED CONTACTS SUCH AS DESMOSOMES AND TIGHT JUCTIONS • EXHIBITS POLARITY – HAS APICAL SURFACE (FREE) AND BASAL SURFACE (ATTACHED)
SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EPITHELIUM • SUPPORTED BY THE UNDERLYING CONNECTIVE TISSUE • INNERVATED BUT AVASCULAR • HAS A HIGH REGENERATION CAPACITY
EPITHELIAL TISSUE HAS TWO NAMES • FIRST NAME - # OF LAYERS PRESENT, SIMPLE (ONE) OR STRATIFIED (MORE THAN ONE) • SECOND NAME – DESCRIBES THE SHAPE OF THE CELLS
SIMPLE EPITHELIA • MOSTLY CONCERNED WITH ABSORPTION, SECRETION, AND FILTRATION • SIMPLE SQUAMOUS EP. – SINGLE LAYER OF FISH SCALE-SHAPED CELLS • SIMPLE CUBOIDAL EP. – SINGLE LAYER OF CUBE SHAPED CELLS FORMING THE SMALLEST DUCTS OF GLANDS AND MANY KIDNEY TUBULES
SIMPLE COLUMNAR EP. – SINGLE LAYER OF COLUMN SHAPED CELLS THAT LINE THE DIGESTIVE TRACT • PSEUDOSTRATIFIED COLUMNAR EP. – CONTAINS CELLS OF VARYING HEIGHTS GIVING THE FALSE IMPRESSION OF THE PRESENCE OF MANY LAYERS
STRATIFIED EPITHELIA • MAIN FUNCTION IS PROTECTION • STRATIFIED SQUAMOUS EP. – COMPOSED OF SEVERAL LAYERS WITH THE CELLS ON THE FREE SURFACE BEING SQUAMOUS SHAPED AND THE UNDERLYING CELLS BEING CUBOIDAL OR COLUMNAR SHAPED
STRATIFIED CUBOIDAL EP. – RARE, FOUND MOSTLY IN THE DUCTS OF SOME OF THE LARGER GLANDS • STRATIFIED COLUMNAR EP. – FOUND IN LIMITED DISTRIBUTION WITH SMALL AMOUNTS IN THE PHARNYX, MALE URETHRA, AND LINING SOME GALNDULAR DUCTS • TRANSITIONAL EP. – FORMS THE LINING OF THE HOLLOW ORGANS OF THE URINARY SYSTEM THAT STRETCH AS THEY FILL
GLANDULAR EPITHELIA • ENDOCRINE GLANDS – DUCTLESS GLANDS THAT SECRETE HORMONES BY EXOCYTOSIS DIRECTLY INTO THE BLOOD OR LYMPH • EXOCRINE GLANDS – HAVE DUCTS, SECRETE THEIR PRODUCT ONTO A SURFACE OR INTO BODY CAVITIES
FUNCTIONS OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE • BINDING AND SUPPORT • PROTECTION • INSULATION • TRANSPORTATION
COMMON CHARACTERISTICS OF CT • ALL CT ARISES FROM AN EMBRYONIC TISSUE CALLED MESENCHYME • CT RANGES FROM AVASCULAR TO HIGHLY VASCULARIZED • CT IS COMPOSED MAINLY OF NONLIVING EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX THAT SEPARATES THE CELLS OF THE TISSUE
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF CT • GROUND SUBSTANCE – THE UNSTRUCTURED MATERIAL THAT FILLS THE SPACE BETWEEN THE CELLS AND CONTAINS THE FIBERS • FIBERS OF THE CT PROVIDE SUPPORT: A)COLLAGEN FIBERS ARE EXTREMEMLY STRONG AND PROVIDE HIGH TENSILE STRENGTH, B)ELASTIC FIBERS – CONTAIN ELASTIN WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO BE STRETCHED AND TO RECOIL, C)RETICULAR FIBERS – FINE, COLLAGENOUS FIBERS THAT FORM NETWORKS • EACH MAJOR CLASS OF CT HAS A FUNDAMENTAL CELL TYPE THAT EXISTS IN IMMATURE AND MATURE FORMS
TYPES OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE • MESENCHYME – FORMS DURING EARLY WEEKS OF EMBRYONIC DEVEL. FROM THE MESODERM AND EVENTUALLY DIFFERENTIATES INTO ALL OTHER CT.
TYPES CONT. • LOOSE CT – 3 TYPES: AREOLAR, ADIPOSE, AND RETICULAR • AREOLAR – SRVES TO BIND BODY PARTS TOGETHER WHILE ALLOWING THEM TO MOVE FREELY, WRAPS SMALL BLOOD VESSELS AND NERVES, SURROUNDS GLANDS, AND FORMS SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE • ADIPOSE – RICHLY VASCULARIZED, FUNCTIONS IN NUTRIENT STORAGE, PROTECTION, AND INSULATION • RETICULAR – FORMS INTERNAL FRAMEWORK OF LYMPH NODES, THE SPLEEN, AND BONE MARROW
TYPES CONT. • DENSE CT – 2 TYPES: • DENSE REGULAR CT – CLOSELY PACKED BUNDLES OF COLLAGEN FIBERS RUNNING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, MAKES UP TENDONS AND LIGAMENTS • DENSE IRREGULAR CT – THICK BUNDLES OF COLLAGEN ARRANGED IN IRREGULAR FASHION, FOUND IN THE DERMIS
TYPES CONT. • CARTILAGE – LACKS NERVE FIBERS AND IS AVASCULAR, 3 TYPES: • HYALINE – MOST ABUNDANT, PROVIDES FIRM SUPPORT WITH SOME PLIABILITY • ELASTIC – FOUND WHERE STRENGTH AND EXCEPTIONAL STRETCHABILITY ARE NEEDED, SUCH AS EXTERNAL EAR • FIBROCARTILAGE – FOUND WHERE STRONG SUPPORT AND THE ABILITY TO WITHSTAND HEAVY PRESSURE ARE REQUIRED SUCH AS INTERVERTEBRAL DISKS
TYPES CONT. • BONE (OSSEOUS TISSUE) – SUPPORTS AND PROTECTS BODY STRUCTURES DUE TO ITS HARDNESS, WHICH IS DETERMINED BY THE ADDITIONAL COLLAGEN FIBERS AND CALCIUM SALTS FOUND IN THE EXTRACELLUALR MATRIX • BLOOD – CLASSIFIED AS A CT BECAUSE IT DEVELOPED FROM MESENCHYME, CONSISTS OF BLOOD CELLS AND PLASMA PROTEINS SURROUNDED BY BLOOD PLASMA
COVERING AND LINING MEMBRANES • CUTANEOUS MEMBRANE, OR SKIN, IS AN ORGAN SYSTEM CONSISTING OF KERATINIZED SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM FIRMLY ATTACHED TO A THICK LAYER OF DENSE IRREGULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE
MEMBRANES CONT. • MUCOUS MEMBRANES LINE BODY CAVITIES THAT OPEN TO THE EXTERIOR AND CONTAIN EITHER STRATIFIED SQUAMOUS OR SIMPLE COLUMNAR EPITHELIA
MEMBRANES CONT. • SEROUS MEMBRANES CONSIST OF SIMPLE SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM RESTING ON A THIN LAYER OF LOOSE CONNECTIVE (AREOLAR) TISSUE
NERVOUS TISSUE • NT IS THE MAIN COMPONENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, WHICH REGULATES AND CONTROLS BODY FUNCTIONS • 2 TYPES OF CELLS: • NEURONS – SPECIALIZED CELLS THAT GENERATE AND CONDUCT ELECTRICAL IMPULSES • SUPPORTING CELLS – NONCONDUCTIVE CELLS THAT SUPPORT, INSULATE, AND PROTECT THE NEURONS
MUSCLE TISSUE • MT ARE HIGHLY CELLULAR, WELL VASCULARIZED AND ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MOVEMENT • 3 TYPES: • SKELETAL – ATTACHES TO THE SKELETON AND PRODUCES VOLUNTARY BODY MOVEMENT • CARDIAC MUSCLE – RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT OF THE HEART • SMOOTH MUSCLE – FOUND IN THE WLLS OF THE HOLLOW ORGANS
TISSUE REPAIR • OCCURS IN 2 WAYS – REGENERATION AND FIBROSIS • 3 STEPS – 1. INFLAMMATION PREPARES THE AREA FOR THE REPAIR PROCESS, 2. ORGANIZATION RESTORES THE BLOOD SUPPLY, 3. REGENERATION AND FIBROSIS EFFECT PERMANENT REPAIR • THE GENERATIVE CAPACITY OF TISSUES VARIES WIDELY AMONG TISSUE TYPES
DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS OF TISSUES • EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT – PRIMARY GERM LAYER FORMATION IS ONE OF THE FIRST EVENTS IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT • ECTODERM – THE MOST SUPERFICIAL OF THE LAYERS • MESODERM – MIDDLE LAYER • ENDODERM – DEEPEST LAYER • THE PRIMARY GERM LAYERS SPECIALIZE TO FORM THE FOUR PRIMARY TISSUES
WITH INCREASING AGE, EPITHELIA BECOME THIN, COLLAGEN FIBERS DECREASE, BONE, MUSCLE, AND NERVOUS TISSUE ATROPHY