Exercise 5 Objectives

Connective Tissues I: Proper & Special CT's

Author: Dr. Thomas Caceci

OBJECTIVES FOR THIS EXERCISE: After completing the laboratory exercise on proper and special connective tissues, you should be able to:

Identify the following connective tissues in light microscopic preparations: dense irregular; dense regular; white and brown adipose; mucous; elastic.
Identify each of the following connective tissue cell types in light microscopic preparations, and describe the known functions of each in general terms: fibroblasts, macrophages, mast cells, plasma cells, fat cells, neutrophils, lymphocytes, and eosinophils.
Identify irregular and regular connective tissues in light microscopic preparations.