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Connective tissue - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Dust cell
        
        Lungs
      - Kupfer cell
        
        Liver
      - Langerhan's cell
        
        Skin
- - - - GAGs
        
        Sulphated
        
        Keratan Sulphate
        
        Found in bone, cartilage, and the cornea
        
        Chondroitin Sulphate
        
        Supports and provides featuures of cartilage, bonne, skin, and blood vessels
        
        Dermatan Sulphate
        
        Found in skin, tendons, blood vessels, and heart valves
        
        Heparin Sulphate
        
        Proteoglycans
        
        Non-sulphated
        
        Hyaluronic acid
- - - - Mesenchymal cells in a semi fluid ground substance with reticular fibres
      - Found in embryo
      - Gives rise to all other connective tissue
    - - Found in Foetal umbilical chord
      - Fibroblasts in jelly-like ground substance
  - - - Areolar
      - Adipose
      - Reticular
    - - Regular dense
      - Irregular dense
      - Dense elastic
    - - Cartilage
        
        Hyaline
        
        Elastic
        
        Fibro
      - Bone/Osseous tissue
        
        Compact/cortical
        
        Spongy/cancellous
        
        Bone cells
        
        Osteogenic
        
        Osteoblast
        
        Osteoclast
        
        Osteocyte
    - - ECM
        
        Plasma
      - Formed Elements
        
        Erythrocytes
        
        Leukocytes
        
        Eosinophils
        
        Antiparasitic
        
        Mast Cells
        
        Inflamatory
        
        Basophils
        
        Neutrophils
        
        Monocytes
        
        Phagocytic
        
        Lymphocytes
        
        Platelets
- - - - Causes defect in elastic fibres
        
        Irregular fibrilin does not inhibit TGFb
        
        Symptoms are abnormal height and long limbs
        
        Can cause heart valve issues