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KatieCummingsTissues (Connective Tissue Proper (Mesenchyme…

- - - - Support by producing elastic fibers and collagen
  - - - Provides reserve fuel, insulates, protects organs
  - - - Gives rise to all other connective tissue
        
        Embryo
    - - Flexible/resillient
        
        Trachea, tip of nose
      - Elastic, fibrocartilage
    - - Bones
        
        Structure
    - - Blood Vessels/heart
        
        Trasport
  - - - Fibers form a soft internal skeleton for other cell types
- - - - Attached to bones, occasionally skin
  - - - Walls of heart
  - - - In the walls of hollow organs
- - - - Attatches bones to muscles
  - - - Allows recoil of tissue, maintains blood flow through arteries, recoil of lungs
- - - - Mouth, esophagus, vagina
        
        Protects against abrassion
    - - Trachea, upper respiratory tract
        
        Secretes mucus while ciliated tissue moves mucus
    - - Ducts and secretory portions of sm. Intestine and kidney tubules
        
        Absorbs and secretes
    - - Lining of lungs, blood vessels, and lymphatic vessels
        
        Allows materials to pass through by diffusion, secretes lubrication
    - - Male urethra, ducts of some glands
        
        Secretes, protects
    - - Bladder, urethra, uterers
        
        Allows urinary organs to stretch and expand
  - - - Protective tissue