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| defining characteristic of connective tissue; collagen and elastin |
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| produce fibers of extracellular matrix |
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| unbranched, acidophilic, glycoprotein; resistant to tensile forces |
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| large fibers; loose and dense CT, bone, and fibrocartilage |
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| hyaline and elastic cartilage; vitreous humor of the eye |
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| reticular CT; bone marrow and lymphatic tissue |
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| sheet-like meshwork; basement membranes |
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| branched, acidophilic, amorphous protein; microfibril scaffold |
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| amorphous, aqueous gel, water, and GAGs |
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| chondroitin sulfate (CT), keratin sulfate (skin), hyaluronic acid, and heparin |
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| mesenchymal cells, fibroblasts, fibrocytes, reticular cells, macrophages, mast cells, pericytes, and adipose |
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| participate in the inflammatory response |
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| undifferentiated cells associated with small blood vessels; has own basement membrane |
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| plasma cells, pigment cells, and white blood cells |
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| loose, dense irregular, and dense regular |
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| binds individual muscle fibers together |
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| binds individual axons in nerves; found in dermis and lymph nodes |
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| found in tendons, ligaments, and apineuroses |
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| found in lymph nodes and bone marrow |
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| intensely eosinophilic; found in some tendons and walls of blood vessels |
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| located in the inner portion of the perichondrium |
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| responsible for cartilage matrix formation |
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| develop from mesenchymal stem cells; responsible for cartilage matrix maintenence |
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| develop from macrophages; cells responsible for the massive removal of cartilage |
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| mesenchymal cells differentiate into chondroblasts, which develop into chondrocytes |
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| hyaline, elastic, and fibrocartilage |
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| composed of few cells embedded in gel-like matrix; distributed in most weight-bearing bone forming sites, articular cartilage, airways, and support structures of nose and larynx |
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| few cells embedded in gel-like matrix with elastic fibers present; found in ear and parts of larynx |
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| coarse collagenous bundles in parallel/V-shaped orientation with limited matrix between bundles; found in intervertebral discs, tendon and ligament attachments and menisci |
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| "sleeve around the arm" of cartilage |
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| "cell nests" that characterize interstitial growth of cartilage |
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| interstitial growth of cartilage |
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| mitosis of chondrocytes; occurs in growing animals |
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| growth from perichondrium; mitosis of chondroblasts; growing and adult animals |
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| articular cartilage lacking perichardium |
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| perichondrium and synovial fluid |
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| hyleuronic acid core with proteoglycan attached; GAGs attached to proteoglycan |
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