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Epithelial tissue
Connective tissue
Muscular tissue
Nervous tissue
Composition and functions of blood
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Connective tissue proper
Features
Division
Features
considerable participation in metabolism
big regeneration abilities
no hard substances
Division
Flaccid tissue
built of reticular fibres
surrounds muscles, vascular system, nervous, system
Compact tissue
built of collagen fibres
arrangement of fibres
regular
forms tendons
irregular
forms skin
Fatty tissue
division into: yellow and brown
makes a metabolic reserve
storage of neutral fat in cell cytoplasm
thermoregulative function
Reticular tissue
very delicate
many blood vessels
forms lymph nodes
forms bone marrow stroma
Embryonal tissue
present in embryonal period only
no fibres
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