AI overview
Connective tissue is a type of biological tissue that holds together and supports other structures in your body. It's important because it provides strength, flexibility, and structure to organs, bones, and muscles, helping your body maintain its shape and function.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Research
479,655 papersvia PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Hist.Technik (2).jpg
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
Connective tissue is biological tissue that is found in between other tissues in the body. Most types of connective tissue consists of three main components: elastic and collagen fibers, ground substance, and cells.
It is one of the four primary types of animal tissue along with epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue. It develops mostly from the mesenchyme, derived from the mesoderm, the middle embryonic germ layer.