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Adipose tissue
Found in:
Beneath the skin, breast, surrounding organs like the kidneys and eyes
Features:
Adipocytes-large empty looking cells with thin margins, nucleus pressed against plasma membrane
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Areolar Tissue
Found In:
Under all epithelia, surrounding blood vessels, fascia between muscles, visceral layers of pericardium, and pleura
Features:
Loose arrangement of collagenous and elastic fibers, scattered cells of various types, blood vessels
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Blood
Found in:
RBC, WBC, platelets, plasma
Features:
Small dots, some darker
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Compact Bone
Found in:
External surfaces of all bones
Features:
Dense, calcified tissue
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Cardiac Muscle
- Found in:
- Heart, involuntary
Features:
Short branched cells called myocytes, less parallel, striations, intercalated discs where fibers/myocytes meet, one nuclei per cell
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Dense Irregular Connective Tissue
Found in:
Dermis
Features:
- Densely packed collagen
- fibers running in random directions
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Dense Regular Connective Tissue
Found in:
Tendons and ligaments
Features:
- Densely packed, parallel,
- wavy collagen fibers
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Elastic Cartilage
Found in:
Mainly in blood vessels
Features:
Composed of elastin fibers
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Fibrocartilage
Found in:
Pubic symphysis, intervertebral discs, knee joint
Features:
Parallel collagen fibers, rows of chondrocytes
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Hyaline Cartilage
Found in:
- Over the ends of bones,
- trachea, bronchi, tip of nose
Features:
- Clear glassy matrix, fine
- dispersed collagen fibers, chondrocytes are small and usually clumped
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Neuron
Found in:
Brain, spinal cord, nerves
Features:
- Dendrites, cell body/soma,
- axon
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Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium
Found in:
- Respiratory tract from
- nasal cavity to bronchi
Features:
- Looks multilayered, some
- cells do not reach free surface, but all attach to basement membrane
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Reticular Tissue
Found in:
- Forms the framework of the: liver, adipose tissue, spleen,
- bone marrow
Features:
- Loose network of reticular
- fibers and cells
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Simple Columnar Epithelium
Found in:
- Stomach, small and large
- intestines, gastrointestinal tract, gallbladder
Features:
- Tall narrow cells, oval
- nuclei, vertically oriented, goblet cells, all attached to basement membrane
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Simple Cuboidal Epithelium
Found in:
- Glands, Kidney,
- Bronchioles, Liver and Thyroid
Features:
- Cube-shaped, uniform, all attached
- to basement membrane
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Simple Squamous Epithelium
Found in:
- Capillaries, alveoli, and
- other tissues where rapid diffusion is required
Features:
- Thin flat cells, centrally
- located nuclei, all attached to basement membrane
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Skeletal Muscle
Found in:
Skeletal muscles; voluntary!
Features:
- Long cylindrical cells
- called muscle fibers, visible striations, multiple nuclei per cell
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Smooth Muscle
Found in:
- Many organs (stomach, uterus, blood vessels)
- Involuntary
Features:
- Short cells that overlap
- each other, one nuclei per cell, NO striations
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Stratified Cuboidal Epithelium
Found in:
- Sweat gland ducts,
- follicles of the ovaries, and seminiferous tubules of testis
Features:
- Two or more layers of
- cube-shaped cells
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Stratified Squamous Epithelium
Found in:
- On skin surface
- (epidermis), mouth, nasal and vaginal cavities
Features:
- Multiple cells layers with
- cells becoming increasingly flat and scaly toward the surface
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Transitional Epithelium
Found in:
Urinary tract, bladder, kidneys
Features:
- Looks similar to stratified squamous but surface cells are
- rounded, 5-6cells think when relaxed and 2-3 cells thick when stretched.
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