TISSUE POSITION
 Skin bed  Yellow elastic fibres
 Between all organs
Loose / Aerolar Connective
Tissue
 Tendons
 Ligaments
Dense/ White Fibrous
 Membrane around muscles
Connective Tissue
and nerves
 Backbone (vertebrae)
 Large arteries
Elastic Tissue
STRUCTURE FUNCTION
 Supporting,
 Collagen fibres connecting, binding
 Variety of cells (fibroblast, and packaging all
macrophages, plasma cells, mast tissues
cell, white blood cells & fat cells)  Flexibility and
 Jelly-like matrix movement
 Transport
 Defence
 Storage
 Regeneration and
repair
 More collagen fibres arranged in  Limits range of
direction of stress or pressure movement at joints
 Few elastic fibres (ligaments)
 Only cells are fibroblasts  Protection around
muscles and nerves
 Thick elastic fibres in all directions  Flexibility of backbone
 Only fibroblasts  Prevents vertebrae
from moving out of
place
 Elasticity and
considerable
expansion in arteries
when heart pumps
blood under great
pressure