Basic Tissues of the Body General Characteristics:

Tissues are group of cells performing a specific

function.

Four Classes:
 Epithelial
 Connective
 Muscular
 Nervous

EPITHELIAL TISSUES

Classification of Epithelial Tissues:

Epithelial Tissue

Simple: Compound:
 Pavement or Squamous >Transitional
 Columnar >Stratified:
 Ciliated -Columnar
 Pseudostratified -Squamous:
=Keratinized
=Non-keratinized
1. Simple Squamous Epithelium
2. Simple Cuboidal Epithelium 3. Transitional Epithelium

Glandular Epithelium
 Cover glands both endocrine and exocrine
glands.
 Their main function is secretion thru what is
known as goblet cell.
 Three Types of Dense Connective Tissue:
Types of Glands:
1.

2.

3.

 Most abundant; found everywhere in the body.

 Protect, support, bind other structures together,
fill spaces, store fat, produce blood cells.
 Have an extracellular matrix.
 Provide support.
 Good blood supply except for tendons
cartilages.

Collagenous fibers: thick, flexible but slightly

elastic with great tensile strength, are important
parts of ligaments and tendons.

Elastic fibers: consist of protein elastin; they

are branched, weaker than collagenous fibers
but can be easily stretched and can resume
previous length and shape.
 Fluid Connective Tissue

 Blood is considered connective tissue because

Three Types of Cartilage: of the presence of the matrix.

MUSCLES
 1. Skeletal muscles - are attached to the
bones.
 Cells are long, cylindrical, striated, and
multinucleated.
 Locations: combined w/ connective tissues and
neural tissue in skeletal muscle.
 Functions:
 moves or stabilizes the position of the skeleton
 guards entrances and exits to the digestive,
respiratory, and urinary tracts
 generates heat
 protects internal organs

Contractions:

1.

The Movements:
 Flexors bends a joint.
 Extensors straightens a joint.
 Abduct: away from the center of the body. 2.
 Adduct: towards the center of the body
2. Smooth muscle
 Nervous Tissue Types:

3.
3. Cardiac muscle

NERVOUS TISSUE
 Neurons: are the actively transmitting cells in
the nervous system
 Unipolar
 Bipolar
 Multipolar
 Functional classification
 Afferent or sensory
 Efferent or motor
 Interneurons
-Supporting cells
-Glial cells
 Astrocytes
 Oligodendroglial cells
 Microglial
 Ependymal