Health and social care - The four main tissues!

By Emily Crampton

Epithelial Tissues

• The cells of epithelial are tightly packed together to make a lining in different parts of the body.

• Epithelial tissues can be served as the membrane lining the organs and helping to keep the body and the different organs separate to keep them in place and to protect them as well.

• Some of epithelial tissues examples are the out side of your skin, inside your mouth, the lining of the skin and surrounding the bodily organs

Muscles Tissues

• Your muscle tissues in your body are things like your heart, intestine (both), liver all these are muscles that you don’t have control over. These are the ones that work on there own.

• There are lots of different kinds of muscles E.G smooth and Rough, slow and fast twitch and voluntary and involuntary.

• Theses muscles are specialized tissues that can contract.

• These muscles that have specialized proteins that slide passed one and other and allow movement. There is an example of this is your intestines.

Nervous Tissues

• There are two different types of nervous tissues. They are neurons and glial cells.

• Nervous tissues send electrical signals around the body to make the body move the say you want you to do as well.

• These electrical messages are coming from the brain and then sent down the spine and then to the body to witch ever part of the body it needs to go to and what to control.

Connective Tissues

• There are many types of connective tissues in the body.

• Connective tissues means it will add support to the joint or the structure of the joint.

• Most types of connective tissues have blood going though it but cartilage does not. It is the only one in the body that does not have blood going through it.

• Some examples of connective tissue include the inner layers of skin, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, bone and fat tissue.