Open AccessCharacteristics of connective tissue fibres
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Michalczewska
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
archives of physiotherapy and global researches
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7183
pISSN - 2353-4389
DOI - 10.15442/apgr.20.2.7
Subject(s) - connective tissue , dense connective tissue , materials science , pathology , medicine
Connective tissue connects, supports and protects other tissues of the body. It is composed of cells and the intercellular substance. The important elements of the latter are fibres, which are divided into collagen fibres and their varietyreticular fibres as well as elastic fibres and their varieties, i.e. oxytalan and elaunin fibres. The present paper describes the proteins forming the individual types of fibres presents a review of the literature regarding the connective tissue, particularly the fibres.
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