ANP 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Semipermeable Membrane, Urinary Incontinence, Motor Neuron

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anatomy and Physiology
• Course: ANP 1105
• Professor: Jackie Carnegie

Document Summary

Connective tissue, connective tissue consists of proper, cartilage, bone, and blood tissues. Functions of connective tissue include binding, supporting, protecting, insulating, storing, and transporting: structural elements, ground substance is an unstructured material containing fibers that fills the spaces between cells. The skin, the lungs, and the walls of blood vessels contain many elastic fibres: reticular fibre surrounds and protects small blood vessels and the soft tissues of organs. The basement membrane of epithelial tissues contains reticular fibres: the cells of connective tissue exist in mature (cytes) and immature (blasts) forms. Function: binds, resists mechanical stress, stores water, salts, and fats. Osteoblasts, osteocytes: resists compression, cushions and supports, resists tension and compression, supports. It acts as a cushion for organs, promotes immunity and inflammation, and acts as a fluid reservoir. It consists of a gel-like ground substance filled with a loose arrangement of all three fibre types and other cells.