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| Areolar (AKA: loose, ordinary tissue) forms what? | loose bonds between other tissues
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| What does the matrix of areolar contain? | numerous fibers, typically many interwoven fibers of collagen and elastin
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| What is collagen? | a protein that forms bundles of tough, flexible fibers
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| what is elastin? | a protein that forms single, stretchy fibers
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| What are the two cells dispersed through out the Areolar tissue called? | fibroblasts and macrophages
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| Adipose (fat) tissue forms what? | supporting, protective pads around the kidney and various other strictures
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| What are the two functions of adipose tissue? | 1. to serve as a storage depot for excess food
2. to act as insulation for the body
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| How do adipose cells store lipids? | in a way that pushes the nucleus and other organelles up into the cell membrane
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| Lymph node (reticular fibers) form what? | the framework of the spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow
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| What are the functions of he reticular tissue? | it functions as part of the body's complex defense against microorganisms and injurious substances
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| The reticular meshwork acts as a what? to do what? | a filter to remove pathogens from the blood and lymph with reticular cells (phagocytes) destroying the infectious material
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| What is the tendon (dense fibrous [regular] tissue)? | dense, fibrous tissue that consists mainly of fibers packed densely in a protein matrix
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| Depending on the arrangement of fibers in the tendon tissue the dense fibrous tissue will either be as designated as what or what? | regular or irregular
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| In tendon tissue why is the dense fibrous tissue regular? | because the fibers are arranged in regular, parallel rows
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| A structure composed of dense fibrous (regular tissue in the tendon is predominately what? | bundles of collagenous fibers and is flexible but possesses great tensile strength
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| Tendons connect what to what? | bone to muscle
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| What are fibroblasts found in tendons? | responsible for synthesizing and maintaining the matrix
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