CONNECTIVE TISSUE WITH SPECIAL PROPERTIES

ADIPOSE RETICULAR PIGMENTED

ADIPOSE TISSUE

• LOOSE C.T.• ADIPOSE CELLS• SIGNET RING POLY HYDERAL• CENTRAL DROPLET VIMENTIN• BASAL LAMINA• YELLOW & BROWN FAT• ENERGY STORAGE TRIGLYCERIDES

YELLOW FAT BROWN FAT

• ADULTS• WHITE YELLOW• UNILOCULAR• SIGNET RING ADIPOCYTE• VASCULARIZED

• EMBRYO INTERSCAPULAR & INGUINAL

• BROWN• MULTILOCULAR• NUCLEUS ECCENTRIC• MITOCHONDRIA

CYTOCHROME OXIDASE• INCREASED

VASCULRATIRY & INNERVATION

ELASTIC CONNECTIVE TISSUE

• YELLOW ELASTIC • LIGAMENTS OF VERTEBRAL

COLUMN ELASTIC ARTERY• BUNDLES OF ELASTIC FIBERS• FIBROBLAST

RETICUALR CONNECTIVE TISSUE

• RETICULAR CELLS & FIBERS• THREE DIMENSIONAL SPONGY

NETWORK• PROCESSES OVERLAP FIBERS• RETICULAR FRAMEWORK OF

HAEMOPOIETIC & LYMPHOID ORGANS

CARTILAGE

CARTILAGE

LOAD BEARINGAVASCULAR C.T.

CELLS HIGHLY SPECIALIZED MATRIX

CLASSIFICATION

• HYALINEARTICULAR NONARTICULAR

• ELASTIC• FIBROUS

HYALINE NON ARTICULAR CARTILAGE

• BLUISH HOMOGENOUS GLASSY• SOLID FIRM & RESILIENT • PERCHONDRIUM• CHONDROCYTES• MATRIX

FIBERS & GROUND SUBSTANCE

PERICHONDRIUM

• FIBROUS LAYERDENSE IRREGULAR C.TFIBROBLAST BLOOD VESSELS NERVES & LYMPH VESSELS

• CELLULAR LAYERCOLLAGEN FIBERS CHONDROGENIC CELLS

• ESSENTIAL FOR GROWTH & MAINTENANCE

CELLS

• CHONDROGENIC STEM CELLS FIBROBLAST

• CHONDRBLAST FIBERS & GROUND SUBSTANCE

• CHONDRO CYTEISOGENOUS GROUPLACUNAE

FIBERS

• COLLAEGEN• TYPE II, IX, X,XI• NOT VISIBLE UNDER THE LIGHT

MICROSCOPE • THINNER FIBRIL• REFRACTIVE INDEX• 64 nm PERIODICITY

GROUND SUBSTANCE

• BASOPHILIC MORE MARKED AROUND ISOGENOUS GROUPS

• TERRITORIAL & INTERTERITORIAL MATRIX• FIRM HIGHLY HYDRATED • PROTEOGLYCAN

CHONDROITIN & KERATAN SO4 (PROTEOGLYCAN)

HYALURONIC ACID

• GLYCOPROTEINS CHONDROCYTE & MATRIX • ANCHARIN TENASCIN FIBRONECTIN

• RESILIENCE DIFFUSIONSHOCK ABSORBER

LOCATION

• EMBRYONIC SKELETON• LARGER RESPIRATORY PASSAGES• LARYNGEAL CARTILAGES• COSTAL CARTILAGE • EPIPHYSEAL PLATE

HYALINE ARTICULAR CARTILAGE

• ARTICULAR SURFACE OF BONES• NO PERICHONDRIUM• ZONE I

• CELLS ARE FLAT // TO SURFACE• // COLLAGEN FIBERS

• ZONE II• CELLS LARGE ROUNDED SINGLY / GROUPS• FIBERS ARE OBLIQUE

• ZONE III • CELLS IN VERTICAL COLUMN

• ZONE IV CALCIFIED MATRIX

ELASTIC CARTILAGE

• EXTERNAL EAR, AUDITORY TUBE, LARYNX

• HYALINE NON ARTICULAR CARTILAGE

• YELLOWISH• ELASTIC FIBER

FIBROCARTILAGE

• INTERVERTEBRAL DISC FIBROCARTILAGE

• NO PERICHONDRIUM • ACIDOPHILIC• BUNDLES OF TYPE I COLLAGEN

FBERS REGULAR & IRREGULAR WITH GROUPS OF CHONDROCYTE