BIOL-N - Biology BIOL-N 261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Loose Connective Tissue, Adipocyte, Connective Tissue

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Tissues: are groups of closely associated specialized cells, which are similar in structure, and perform related (and limited) functions, histology. The study of tissue: histology is very important because many organic dysfunctions of the human body are diagnosed at the tissue level, the four primary tissue types. Epithelium tissue: epithelium is a sheet of cells that cover a body surface or lines a body cavity, a highly cellular tissue, functions. Columnar oval or elongated nucleus, usually located basally. Transitional epithelia a stratified epithelium that stretches and changes shape due to the expansion of their (cid:272)ells" lu(cid:373)e(cid:374)s (cid:894)ope(cid:374) spa(cid:272)es(cid:895) Simple cells in a single layer. Stratified cells stacked in more than one layer. Pseudostratified with cilia a simple epithelium that contains both short and tall cells; classification used mainly in one type (pseudostratified columnar: epithelial tissue is listed by cell type. 2: single layer, location lungs, inside of heart and blood vessels, functions diffusion and smoot lining, secretion.

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