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Connective tissue is one of the four
primary types of
animal tissue,
along with
epithelial tissue,
muscle tissue, and
nervous tissue. It
develops mostly...
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connective tissue disease is a
disease which involves damage to, or
destruction of, any type of
connective tissue in the body.
Depending on the specific...
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Loose connective tissue, also
known as
areolar tissue, is a
cellular connective tissue with thin and
relatively sp****
collagen fibers. They have a semi-fluid...
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Dense connective tissue, also
called dense fibrous tissue, is a type of
connective tissue with
fibers as its main
matrix element. The
fibers are mainly...
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irregular connective tissue has
fibers that are not
arranged in
parallel bundles as in
dense regular connective tissue.
Dense irregular connective tissue consists...
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Mixed connective tissue disease,
commonly abbreviated as MCTD, is an
autoimmune disease characterized by the
presence of
elevated blood levels of a specific...
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Reticular connective tissue is a type of
connective tissue with a
network of
reticular fibers, made of type III
collagen (reticulum = net or network)....
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unmyelinated axons,
Schwann cells surrounded by
connective tissue. The
three layers of
connective tissue surrounding each
nerve are: Endoneurium. Each nerve...
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connective tissues. One
method of
classifying connective tissues is to
divide them into
three types:
fibrous connective tissue,
skeletal connective tissue...
- στρῶμα 'layer, bed, bed covering') is the part of a
tissue or
organ with a
structural or
connective role. It is made up of all the
parts without specific...
