Types of tissue - Muscle + connective tissue
- Created by: N1ntendo-Sw1tch
- Created on: 26-02-23 17:47
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- Types of tissue
- muscle
- Skeletal muscle
- Voluntary
- attached to bone
- powerful contraction
- striped (striated pattern)
- Smooth muscle
- involuntary
- skin/walls of blood vessels, digestive tract
- Individual spindle shaped cells (no stripes)
- Cardiac muscle
- Heart
- myogenic - contract without influence from nerves /hormones
- don't tire
- half way between smooth + skeletal. striped but lack ling fibres compared to skeletal
- Skeletal muscle
- Connective tissue
- connect, support or separate tissues and organs
- Contains elastic and collagen fibres in an extracellular fluid matrix
- Between fibres are fat storage cells and cells (adipocytes) of the immune system
- ligaments
- connect bone to bone
- Areolar
- Connect organs to tissues
- collagen
- forms tendons that attach muscle to bone
- Adipose
- Fatty cells, surround organs and under skin
- muscle
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