Animal Tissues
Animal Tissues
Animal Tissues
1. Epithelial tissue
Job: covering, protecting
The surface of the body and every organ from inside and outside is covered by
epidermal tissue
Characteristics: cell tightly packed, no intercellular (sejtközötti) space, no blood vessels and
nerves
Types:
True epithelium (fedőhám)
flat epithelium (laphám) found eg. in the wall of capillaries
Types:
Loose connective tissue (laza rostos kötőszövet)
3. Supporting tissue
Job: to form skeletal structures
Characteristics: cells are found in a solid intercellular space
Types:
Cartilage (porc) found at the bony connections, ear, nasal septum
has:
o organic part formed if cells and fibres and gives flexibility
o inorganic part formed of Ca and Mg and gives strenght
4. Muscle tissue
Characteristics: able to contract due to its protein fibres (actin and miozin)
Types:
smooth muscles (simaizom)
striated muscles (haráncsíkolt izom)