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Connective Tissue

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3 componets of all connective tissue   Amorphois Ground substance, Tissue fluid and fibers  
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Ehlers Danos Syndrome   heritable, affects collagen structure and function  
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Marfan syndrome   hereditary defect of elastin and fibrillin  
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What is a GAG? name the four groups   Glycosaminoglycans are long unbranched polysaccaride chains with repeating disacaride units. Hyluronic acid, chonroitin sulfate, heparin sulfate, and keatin sulfate  
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What is a proteoglycan   contain more sugar than protien  
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What is a glycoprotein   lots of protien with little sugar, organizes elastin into fibers, and if absent causes elastin to form sheets  
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Fibronectin   involved in wound healing and clotting, plasma form is disolved in blood. Mediates cell adhesion and uses integrins. also binds collagen and heparin  
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Laminin   component of basement membranes, uses integrins, and binds to type IV collagen and entactin  
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chondronectin   attaches chondrocytes to type II collagen. Functions in development and maintainence of cartilage  
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Osteonectin   Found in bone, links minerals to type 1 collagen  
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Type 1 cartilage   Bone, Dense and loose connective tissue, tendons and fasia  
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Type II cartilage   Hyaline and elastic caritlage  
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Type III cartilage   Liver lymph nodes, connective tissue, vessels  
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Type IV and VII   Basement membranes, signal where one tissue ends and another begins  
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Where is loose connective tissue found   Adentitia o blood vessels, propria of GI  
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Adipose tissue location   subcuanteous layer, covers some organs  
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Elastic fiber location   Elastic cartilage, major arteries, some lung, some dermis, and elastic ligaments  
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Dense Irregular   no partiular orientation, most abundant  
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dense regular location   tendons and ligaments  
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two types of elastic fibers   elastin and fibrillin  
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location of reticular fibers and associated collagen type   liver, bone marrow, endorcrine glands, TYPE III  
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What is heterotropic ostification   formation of bone within soft tissue  
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benign tumor suffix   "oma"  
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malignant tumor suffix   "sarcoma"  
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