Tissue Concept Map 913g

Location: lines the cavities and surfaces of blood vessels and organs throughout the body

Function: binding and ing, protecting, insulating, storing reserve fuel, transporting substances within the body

Function: secretion, selective absorption, protection, transcellular transport, and sensing

Squamous Epithelium

Cuboidal Epithelium

Role: Movement

Columnar Epithelium

Smooth Muscle

Skeletal Muscle

Cardiac Muscle

Cells

Role: Protect

Location: inside heart, digestive organs, and blood vessels, in walls of hollow visceral organs, attached to skeleton

Muscle Tissue

Epithelial Tissue

Role: Tissue Role: Communication Location: tendons, ligaments...

Connective Tissue

Neurons

Nervous Tissue

Ligaments Location: brain, spinal cords, nerves

Adipose Tissue (fat)

Tendons

Cartilage

Neuroglia Blood

Bone

Function: provides posture and body , locomotion, heat production

Function: coordinates and controls many body activities, transmit electrical signals from sensory receptors and to effectors (muscles and glands) which control their activity