What Is Fibrous Connective Tissue?
Fibrillar connective tissue, the English name fibrillar connective tissue, is the most widespread connective tissue in vertebrates. It is a cell-interstitial component with fibers as the main body.
Fibrous connective tissue
- Chinese name
- Fibrous connective tissue
- Foreign name
- fibrillar connective tissue
- Fibrillar connective tissue, the English name fibrillar connective tissue, is the most widespread connective tissue in vertebrates. It is a cell-interstitial component with fibers as the main body.
- In addition to most of the epithelial tissue, it is one of the components of these tissues, which is interposed between other basic tissue components. This tissue is characterized by a general lack of cellular components and a large number of interstitial cells, the basic cells of which are called fibroblasts. Such cells produce intercellular substance composed of fibrous components such as collagen fibers, reticular fibers, elastic fibers, and glycoproteins mainly composed of hyaluronic acid of mucopolysaccharides between cells. So in addition to binding and supporting tissues, it also has the functions of storing water and preventing bacterial invasion. In this kind of tissue, in addition to fibroblasts, there are macrophages, plasma cells, and mast cells, so this kind of tissue also has functions that originate from these cells. Loose connective tissue is the representative of this kind of tissue. In addition, there are tangible connective tissue (dense fibrous connective tissue), adipose tissue, elastic tissue, pigmented tissue, etc., which can be considered to be formed by the special differentiation of this tissue [1] .